re: OFFICIAL 2021 ARKANSAS RAZORBACK BASEBALL SEASON THREAD

If you score enough runs it takes any important decision out of the coach's hands. I agree that the offense is ultimately at fault, but with better pitching management we could have still won, especially yesterday.

I wish DVH hadn't totally abandoned his old small ball mentality. After Wallace walked in the fifth I understand not bunting Slavens but if you don't, then Wallace has to be looking to steal a bag.

The pitcher was slow to home and the catcher went down to one knee just about every pitch

Exactly, just look a the red Sox or cubs, just stay the course and eventually luck will change.

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Exactly, just look a the red Sox or cubs, just stay the course and eventually luck will change.

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When is the last time the football/basketball teams won the sec/ sec Tourney.

Dude, I know you are having a great time with the continual bloviating but it is a bit shallow to be honest.

We suck in Football, but perhaps getting a bit .. little bit better.

Basketball is turning a major corner, but hasn't really proven a heckuva lot as of yet. One Elite 8 loss... That's it.. We will continue to improve here I believe.

So why such antagonistic posts. Do you just love stirring emotions when they are raw? Get your jollys that way? Whelp Congrats it has worked by the above posts..

I felt that DVH was in dire straits with this pitching staff and starting Kopps screamed desperation. I think if the pitching actually improved then Kopps wouldn't have been used as much. It didn't improve and here we are.

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Goodheart gone
Wallace back
Slavens gone?
Franklin gone
Moore back
Opitz gone, Leach starts?
Smith gone
Welch DH or?
Battles gone?
Nesbit gone
Webb gone
Gregory?
Bates starter?

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Next season looks to be rough unless DVH pulls a horseshoe out of his arse in recruiting/JUCO. We lose a lot in the field and our pitching staff is a mess.

The coaches will definitely have their work cut out for them.

Yep... Just a ray of sunshine for next season.

Hopefully DVH can hit the portal and change this

I think Smith, Goodheart, and Slavens return(they’re not listed on draft boards)with Moore and Wallace. Leach will be behind the dish and Welch will DH. Bates and Gregory should be back.

Wiggins, Pallette(if healed), Tole, Noland, Morris, Starks(excited about him) likely return. Bolden, Monke depends on draft or asked to leave?

Probably hit the portal again hard.

Recruiting class is one of the best in nation again. Will have to see how hard the draft hits it. Braylon Bishop is the star of the class and likely doesn’t make it to campus. Hagen Smith is a lefty who is highly rated that may actually make it to campus. He had TJ a year or so ago and came back strong, but MLB teams may lay low on him right now.

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Is Bishop still projected as a top round kid

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Doubt he ever hits campus, honestly.

This one really hurts. Don’t buy people saying we couldn’t have done it in Omaha with this staff. We did it all year and did it in the SECT.

This was another squandered chance and we absolutely blew it, losing back to back at home by a single run, leading both games to start.

I don’t know how to be positive. SEC and SECT feels meaningless at this point and hard to see us ever actually winning one.

Vandy, Florida and now UT are going to be on another level from us. 15, 18, 19 or this year, not getting it don’t any of those feels like we never will.

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Don’t buy people saying we couldn’t have done it in Omaha with this staff. We did it all year and did it in the SECT.

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As others have said, that was a testament to coaching, bats getting hot at the right time in close games, and some luck.

When you stop and think about it, it's nothing short of incredible that we won the SEC with basically 1 starter the coaches trusted and a shaky (at best) bullpen outside of Kopps. While showing flashes of brilliance at times, it was obvious the coaches didn't have a ton of confidence in Lockhart, Pallette, Wiggins, or others to get out of jams, which is why they started stretching Kopps as the season went along and basically forgoing middle relief altogether.

In terms of luck, I worried in the latter part of the season that it seemed like the ball kept bouncing our way when the chips were down, and that eventually we'd roll a snake eyes and shite just wouldn't go our way.