Time for a new baseball coach
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Im glad to say that it looks like we are being rewarded. Really pleased with the changes to the staff and roster made by Kingston this offseason... Here we are at the mid point of the regular season currently projected as a national seed and totally beating the shit out of the #1 team in the country last night.
Hopefully we can win the series today against LSU and keep the momentum going for what will continue to be a tough couple of weeks @ #3 Vandy and against #4 Florida at home.
This team seems like theyāre on the right track. Kingston is doing what a competent baseball coach is supposed to do at South Carolinaācompete for SEC & National titles. Itās not that easy in some sports, but baseball is a sport we should rarely if ever struggle in. Everything is there to be a dominant power.
I am just hoping this team stays healthy and hot. You have to win in the regular season to get to the postseason but the postseason is a different beast. Postseason baseball is about pitching depth and timely hitting. I like where we are and hope it continues.
I am just hoping this team stays healthy and hot. You have to win in the regular season to get to the postseason but the postseason is a different beast. Postseason baseball is about pitching depth and timely hitting. I like where we are and hope it continues.
Why are our fans so quick to give credit to a guy who failed at Clemson?
Failing at cu and being a great bench coach are two different animals! You must not have much experience following sports!
Probably so, but it's unlikely a bench coach in 6 months completely changed a program.
Rick Barnes got chased out of Clemson. Id say it worked out ok for him at Texas and Tennessee.
Its not always that someone is a bad coach or that its a bad job, sometimes its just a bad fit.
Monte Lee was an excellent assistant under Tanner and he appears to have made a major impact for Kingston. Im glad hes here.
We have an upgrade in talent this year. I doubt Monte has done a whole lot yet.
lol are you just making things up at this point? Clemson certainly didn't chase Rick Barnes out. He went to a bigger school.
Even ignoring that problem, he was the HC at all those schools. The issue here is our fans seem to want to give all the credit to an assistant coach.
The difference in this year and past years is mechanics have been maintained. That is the primary job of the hitting coach. It's been somewhere around ten years since we've seen swings maintained this far in to the season and not regress. We have been very talented in previous years until we arent. I have no doubt Monte is responsible.
To me itās a lot of plate discipline which we havenāt seen in years and that is coaching! From what I heard in the fall Petry was hitting no where near how he is hitting now that didnāt take 6 months!
Petry is also a fine example of a guy with a team first attitude... something we are seeing a lot from the team as a whole. It's good to see and I do credit Kingston for that. Kingston also gets credit for putting together a good pitching staff. But those last to first offensive statistics goes to Monte imo.
If I remember correctly, hitting and teaching same is his specialty. No doubt he has influenced as you mention.
The lack of producing and developing high draft picks based on offense here has always been disapointing to me. The best swing we have had here in the last decade imo belonged to Carlos Cortez who I believe has been the only highly ranked offensive pick in recent memory. Even before him tho, high picks were too few and too far between. Heck we've had guys in the meat of our lineup recently go undrafted. That's screwed up.
I have wanted nothing more than to see that change. In comes Monte. All I can say is things are looking better. Still has a lot of work to do tho... as a hitting coach always does.
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I'd always heard that he wanted better basketball facilities and the Clemson administration said no. He was apparently such an asshole about it. They suggested he go somewhere else... that's why he left.
What he said publicly about the school system I Pickens county was apparently only part of the story.
Personally, I don't give a shit about what Clemson coaches do, but that makes a lot more sense to me.
I always heard he was messing around with some of the coeds.
I'm sure there's an internet rumor to suit all arguments.
Yep. OP definitely not aging well
Probably hosting a regional and in top 10
Some people should wait til after a season to post
A season of any sport has ups and downs which is why people should not post because team is on a win streak or in a slump
No one knows how the season will end but to act like this team is not talented or has struggles all season is ridiculous
Probably hosting a regional and in top 10
Some people should wait til after a season to post
A season of any sport has ups and downs which is why people should not post because team is on a win streak or in a slump
No one knows how the season will end but to act like this team is not talented or has struggles all season is ridiculous
I was saying we are still in top 10 in most polls. Pitching looked better last weekend, but batting looks like the last 3 years.
So we shall see how this plays out but he better not slide too far or the op will be back in play.
We were better longer but a collapse is a collapse whenever it happens.
This team has STB (Sh!t the bed).... they are done, put a fork in them... Kingston is done as far as I go... he will be back next year to do the same thing... Landon Powell will not wait around to be head coach forever.
Yea Tanner doesn't have the stones to do what needs to be done. It will all once again be chalked up to injuries and not poor coaching. Next year will be even worse. Before last night 116th in fielding percentage and 52 errors. Fielding should be a priority with two deep at all positions. You cant recruit only hitters and expect to win. No team can average 10 plus runs a game to compensate for poor fielding. Now that the hitting has gone cold there is no recipe for success.
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I could understand if a guy or two lost their mojo late in a season... but all of them??? What a piss poor coaching job we have witnessed so far. Yeah this is coaching.
Iām not sure if Iāve ever seen such a collapse. Did other teams just adjust to what we were doing? We canāt hit a lick now.
I would like to think ML could help them find the adjustment needed. Of course the players need to execute what they're taught. Could it be they are not handling playing under pressure? National seeding, regional seeding talk maybe made the stage too big for them š¤.
Tanner needs to hire the 107.5 radio guys. These guys are experts . They canāt miss calling every play. Always - spot on.
