I'll say it. FIRE OSTRANDER!!!

[SSME]

For my money (or lack of it), Ostrander doesn't have the scope to manage the pitching. It's always the >>>wrong person in the wrong situation.<<< We would be 3-4 games better than we are if we had proper coaching there. He has cost us several games.

Eagles!!!

 

[ElectroEagle]

We lost several underclassman pitchers from last years team. That is why we had to move our closer, Sandlin, to a starting pitcher. We literally started this season knowing that our weakness would be pitching. And for that matter. We tend to start to fade away when May begins anyway, year after year. We get worse as the season goes along. Has been the way of the team since Palmer retired. I would not at all put all of this on coach ostrander.

 

[SSME]

I appreciate your point of view and the content of your post. However, their is a pattern here that shows a lack of ability to use the few strengths that he has. He lacks planning in my opinion. He constantly allows "emergencies" to develop that put us in situations where we lose. I believe he has cost us several games.

We had chances to win today as we have had in many of our losses. It often seems we just can't hit the lefties regardless of who they are. Also, I think the getting worse as the season goes thing is about hitting. I have sung "Ghost Batters In The Sky" until even I am sick of it.

It's not all his fault, no, but he isn't helping with his own inconsistencies and inabilities to use the talent available. He has done it all year. The wrong people at the wrong time. Keyes wasn't ready tonight. He had super nerves coming in. Should a coach have such insight? It would help to at least have SOME.

That's my opinion

 

[eagle ron]

For my money (or lack of it), Ostrander doesn't have the scope to manage the pitching. It's always the >>>wrong person in the wrong situation.<<< We would be 3-4 games better than we are if we had proper coaching there. He has cost us several games.

Eagles!!!

Don't stop with the pitching coach, start at the top.

 

[Houston Eagle]

USM may as well go for the sweep today because I already made up my mind that this team could make a regional, but they don't have the arms to make it out. I decided that long before the tournament started.

 

[ElectroEagle]

It often seems we just can't hit the lefties regardless of who they are. Also, I think the getting worse as the season goes thing is about hitting. I have sung "Ghost Batters In The Sky" until even I am sick of it.

Yeah. Its not just our pitching that gets worse as the season goes, its our batting too. Everything seems to fall apart as the season progresses. The only year we got stronger was 09, when we made omaha. Then pitching fell totally apart when we got there.

And the hitting thing has been an issue since 09. What year was it we had 2 great pitchers, cruised to 17-0 or 18-0, started making some headlines. The pitchers got suspended for academic reasons, left the team and school, and then the entire season collapsed.