re: Baseball 28-20 (14-10) Schedule for Week of 5/3

I think TJ is a good guy. Even think he's a good coach. And yes, he's been crippled to an extent by the prior administrations lack of concern about the baseball program. I just don't think he's the man going forward.

If he's retained, I'll still follow but just not with the same level of excitement or expectation. More importantly, it would probably give me cause for concern with the current AD when it comes to the bigger sports. What is hard to wrap my head around is if they retain TJ, they have to give him at least a 3 year deal. So it's not just 1 more year.

If Loftin and Rhoades are serious about being serious about baseball, they'll bring in a new coach, whether it's Vitello or someone else. I know they just put money into the current stadium, but they really need to go all in on either improvements or a new stadium. The current one really is not good. They have to address the scholarship issues with being able to award other than athletic scholarships to help bring kids in.

One of TJ's problems IMO has been that he tends to recruit exclusively on the east side of the state and the STL area. Look at Lang with LSU. Originally committed to kU and then flipped to LSU. As far as I know, TJ never went heavy after him. Could you imagine if we had had Houck and Lang (SEC freshman of the year) on the same staff?

Some talk about not being able to recruit because of the weather. Don't buy it. Other schools do. Benes, Bond, Fairbanks, Houck, Howard, Ivory, Klages, Munson, Peel and Schwaab...all regulars...all from the STL area. That's frankly too many when they're all either starters or regular contributors. Especially when the following are from the KC area...
























Yepp. Not a mistake. None of the regular contributors based on my quick glance.