re: 2026 #5 Diamond Dawgs (34-11, 15-6) | Game 45: Troy, Tuesday 3:00PM

Dawgs hve exploded in the 4th for 6 runs on 6 hits (no home runs)

8-0 Dawgs in the 4th and still batting, have touched up HunterElliott for 9 hits and chased him from the mound

Huge effort on the road in game 1

I thought this fricking loser was a pitching coach?

3 years in and I’m becoming convinced this is just who we are under Wes: good team 3/4 of the way through a season, shite the bed down the stretch, blow it in our own regional, rinse and repeat.

Better than where we were but im really not interested in doing this for 8 years before we wise up. He needs to show growth in year 4 or we need to consider moving on while we still have some momentum

That’s what you say when you surrender a 2 run lead in the 9th. We blew an 8 run lead in the 4th.

We don’t have a 3rd starter (nevermind a 4th or 5th arm for tournament play), our bullpen is mostly trash project arms with good stuff and terrible pitch placement, and we still don’t hve hardly any lefty arms (let alone anyone who can hit a strike zone). Wes has been nothing short of an abject failure as a pitching coaching to this point. His only saving grace has been hiring Coggin and being ahead of the curve in scouting and recruiting the portal on the offensive side.

Unless Arkansas retires DVH, Wes isn’t going anywhere and he may not even go there. He is an obvious improvement over Stricklin and the program is at least in hosting conversations again… but we cannot keep living in the bottom third of pitching in the conference. We will not ever advance beyond Supers if we don’t find an advantage on the mound, no matter how many tanks we hit. Regular season wins are a good way to pass the time February-May but nobody cares about what you did in April if you shite the bed in June.

As for money, far as I can tell Wes hs been given what he wants; he just wants guys with high velocity stuff that he can mold. Problem is we need guys who can hit the fricking zone, not the Jordan Stephens of the world who touch 100 but walk and hit batters far more than striking anyone out. So far all Wes has done with our pitchers is make guys who would’ve been late round MLB flyers picks into mid round guys, none of which is really helping us win ballgames at the college level.

Well we just took a 7-5 lead into the bottom of the 9th

4 pitch leadoff walk and then a 2 run Home Run

7-7 with nobody out

NIL or just better evals, better figure out how to put together a better staff than whatever this clown show is. Absolutely atrocious 7 days of baseball

I’ve been a UGA season ticket holder since the perno years. I’m quite aware the difference. This is the first season under Wes we’ve had a regular starter on the mound average more than 3 innings of work. My critique of the staff isn’t hyperbole and guess work, we are now and have been in the statistical basement for pitching in the SEC all 3 years he has been here. We give up an inordinate number of walks and HBPs and it absolutely kills us.

I just think it's hard wired into folks and they don't realize plus we have transitioned to portal and nil and the game has further changed.