re: Done With DVH.

No worries. I went overboard and wrote a manifesto that I can’t hardly comprehend. But I’m not going to unpost something I posted after having a couple of beverages and then all heck breaking loose bc I feel like that’s backtracking and bad form on my part. I hope that I’m wrong about anything negative I said and we all want to win but some of us also forget that the journey is the real adventure and we’ve got a lot to be grateful for regarding our team, fans, and even coach(who objectively is absolutely one of the best college baseball coaches in the country and is definitely the best without a Title - I hope he gets it as he’s absolutely put us in the map).

k keep us posted

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Not trolling. But why did you delete your posts? Despite the way this year will end. I’m way less pissed(if even) than I was after the Vandy collapse. I can elaborate as to why later.

I don't understand why the opinions on him are so polarized all the time. He's the baseball Mark Richt. And that's not really an insult, because Mark Richt was a damn good coach. Georgia wandered the desert for 15 years before he turned them into yearly competitors. He was within arm's reach of the NCG two different times.

DVH has taken us to the CWS seven times. We've only been 11 times in our history. He's gonna be 63 next season and I don't think he has a whole lot of these heartbreaks left in him. But we're in the hunt every year.

Then you have people (especially on HV, oh my God) who think he's entirely above reproach in every way. You can't criticize anything, or be angry at any of the shortcoming. 2018, 2021, this year. The bed-shitting upsets keep piling up, and we're supposed to be ceaselessly happy about it?

I think he's done a good enough job to retire whenever he wants. But the fact of the matter is six other SEC teams have won baseball NCs since he got hired here - two of them have won multiple NCs. And Georgia has matched our high-water mark of runner-up, and that's a school that barely gives half a shite about baseball. When Texas and Oklahoma join, add another NC winner and another runner-up since DVH was hired. That's enough teams to make an entirely new conference out of. He brought us to new heights, but we're not going to take that final step until he leaves. Just like Georgia with Mark Richt.

I daresay we care more about baseball than any other SEC fan base with the exception of LSU and maybe Mississippi State. If DVH retires, I'll be sad to see the end of a great era, but we have the drive and resources to go out there and get a proven and awesome coach. Arkansas baseball and basketball are not Arkansas football. We can contend every year and win multiple championships in both sports in all our lifetimes. I don't want to come off as either ungrateful or entitled, DVH is what he is and I enjoy as much of the ride as I can - which is thankfully quite a bit of it. But he's going sooner than later, and I can't lie if I say I'm not excited at the possibility of watching us plunder a lesser program's underachieving coach and maybe finally adding a trophy to the case.

It truly is random and the postseason is all about getting hot with talented, healthy players who weren't wore down by the length of the regular season.

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He's the baseball Mark Richt.

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Absolutely agree. Agree with entire post. Some on here don’t like my delivery, but I just think that we can do even more with baseball. With or without DVH(and yes, he is beyond firing unless he does/says something horrible off the field or unprofessionally). But I hope that we are ready and have a good succession plan in place either way. I WOULD LOVE to see him win it all once - for his sake and for all the times he’s been and almost done it(just as much as for myself or anyone else who wants to see it). We just don’t need to act like he’s going to be here forever or the only one who can succeed here. Some were worried/adamantly against Mike Anderson being let go. Again, I’m not equating him to DVH or saying fire DVH, but there would be options for us and we will hit that crossroads at some point whether or not people are willing to admit. Also, TCU was just a shite draw for us. They’ve had our pitchers’ numbers all season.

I've never thought any coach to be infallible, and certainly don't think DVH is, but when you look at what he's done over the last 6 complete seasons, his record is unmatched, with the lone exception being winning it all.

Since 2017:

- Regional appearance every year.
- 4 Super Regional appearances.
- 3 CWS appearances.
- 1 CWS runner up.
- 5 regional hosts.
- 4 top 8 national seeds.
- 2 overall conference titles.
- 1 conference tournament title (doesn't really matter).
- 4 western division titles (including ties).
- Hasn't finished below 2nd in the division.
- Average 19+ conference wins.
- 7 top 10 recruiting classes (Perfect game)

All of this in arguably the hardest division in the hardest conference in college baseball.

There's probably 2 coaches in college baseball who have sustained a similar level of success over the same period of time, Tim Corbin and Kevin O'Sullivan. Both have fewer CWS appearances since 2017 (Sully can get to 3 this year), and both have had consecutive seasons where they failed to get out of regional play, something DVH hasn't done since 2016 & 2017.

I get the frustration, but Arkansas, Florida, and Vanderbilt are arguably the top 3 programs in college baseball since 2017, and they've combined to win only 2 CWS titles over that span (with two painful runners up), while Florida could still add to that mark this year. Don't even get me started on playing what could have been if just 3 games turned out differently.

Given this picture, I still think it's just a matter of time before DVH wins one.

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Given this picture, I still think it's just a matter of time before DVH wins one.

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Agreed. I was never that high on this year's team to begin with so I guess this one just isn't hitting me as hard. I don't get the melting. Thought it was pretty obvious early on we were gonna have to get extremely lucky to go deep this year. Turns out we were the opposite of lucky and were nowhere near good enough to overcome it.

Just reload and hope for better injury luck next year.

It’s hard to argue against that. I think my thread title should just be “Eternal Frustration of the Razorback Fan Mind”.

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Baseball is the most crap shoot of postseasons.

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Dave needs to hand the dice off cause his arse be rolling snake eyes. CWS opponents taking his money like he's ashy Larry.