re: Bama Baseball | (32-26)

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It's always good to keep playing but we're not a danger to good teams.


Yep - just don't have the horses (pitching or hitting).

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As I said yesterday, we're not ready for prime time. This next season should tell us if Coach Bohannon and Alabama will move to the next level together.

if we took a major step back ...This

We Assume the next step to be a positive one but it's not a given.

Is the program pretty much where we will stay...good but not great? We'll see.

Bo has done everything that has been expected of him since he took over a dumpster fire. It’s been a positive step every year. If he hadn’t lost Prielipp, this season would have no doubt been even better. Patience. If we take a step back, i can understand the grumbling but so far we haven’t. Let’s see where Bo can take us.

people keep saying he took over a dumpster fire from a coach who was at Bama only one year. How much can you really screw up a place after one year compared to what all the Mike's did at Bama in FB before NS arrived.

Can anyone be specific of what he did that people keep using a dumpster fire about

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people keep saying he took over a dumpster fire from a coach who was at Bama only one year. How much can you really screw up a place after one year compared to what all the Mike's did at Bama in FB before NS arrived.

Can anyone be specific of what he did that people keep using a dumpster fire about

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He ran off half the roster and signed something like 25 guys, half of them JuCo guys. He burned the roster (which wasn't great to begin with) to the ground.

He filled the roster with the equivalent of low level Sun Belt talent. Meanwhile Thompson was at Auburn getting started and signing every good player in the state.

I think people underestimate just how difficult baseball recruiting is beyond just the issues of scholarship allotment and getting guys to sign vs. go pro. There's so much more volatility for baseball players in terms of how they will respond to moving up to the next level in competition. You see it all the time in the minors. Dudes rake in A and A+ but fall apart in AA, there are hundreds of AAAA players out there, the bust rate for even top 20 draft picks is extremely high, etc. Combined with how far behind we were/are, that leaves basically no margin for error on evaluations and no wiggle room in terms of shooting for the moon with elite players who are like 98% pro locks.

so a post on the rant. We are last 5 out

That's what happens when you find yourself sitting on the Bubble; you are subject to the outcome and upsets in other tournaments. Maybe we will be surprised and we make it in, but I'm not holding my breath. What a gut punch to end the season.

Sixteen Regional Sites Selected For 2021 NCAA Baseball Championship

The NCAA Division I Baseball Committee announced the 16 regional sites for the 74th annual NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.

The 16 regional sites, with host institutions and records are as follows:

Austin, Texas - Texas (42-15)
Columbia, South Carolina – South Carolina (33-21)
Eugene, Oregon – Oregon (37-14)
Fayetteville, Arkansas – Arkansas (46-10)
Fort Worth, Texas – TCU (39-17); through games played 5/29/2021
Gainesville, Florida – Florida (38-20)
Greenville, North Carolina – East Carolina (41-15)
Knoxville, Tennessee – Tennessee (45-16)
Lubbock, Texas – Texas Tech (36-15)
Nashville, Tennessee – Vanderbilt (40-15)
Oxford, Mississippi – Ole Miss (41-19)
Ruston, Louisiana – Louisiana Tech (40-18)
South Bend, Indiana – Notre Dame (30-11)
Stanford, California – Stanford (33-14)
Starkville, Mississippi – Mississippi St. (40-15)
Tucson, Arizona – Arizona (40-15)

Each regional field features four teams, playing in a double-elimination format. All 16 regionals are scheduled to be conducted from Friday, June 4 to Monday, June 7 (if necessary).

baseball america I think had a twitter showing us last 4 in and UGA last four out