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That said, I'm not ready to totally give up on Gaspard. Over 60% of our innings pitched this year have been thrown by true freshmen. Let's not forget two years ago he had us one win from Omaha and last season when little was expected we at least made the NCAAs.

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Posted by I-59 Tiger

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Member since Sep 2003

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Posted on 4/19/12 at 9:09 am to bigpapamac

quote:
I'm not ready to totally give up on Gaspard

I'm not inferring that you are, but I can't believe any Alabama fan would even be considering a move.No,this team isn't very good, but my goodness,look what he did with his squad the last two years.

They got off the mat in 2010 after almost not making it to Hoover, won all games to maket the SEC-T title game , beat National seed Georgia Tech in Atlanta and darn near beat Clemson to make it to Omaha.And last year the way he held that team togethor after the tornado was remarkable.

Lets be honest,after what happened in late April I don't think anyone would have been surprised or wouldn't have understood if they had just collapsed. I don't care how big and strong these guys are to come to practice every day dodging rescue trucks,TV skycam trucks, etc had to be brutal for 18-22 yr olds (let alone John Doe).They sucked it up and played very good baseball, pretty much eliminating LSU along the way, and made it to the NCAA's.

Guy should get more credit for how he guided that squad last Spring.