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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5450 on: April 25, 2019, 04:08:48 PM »
Signs of real life and the Toint is soldout, even SRO is selling out. 


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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5451 on: April 26, 2019, 12:05:07 PM »
Will Pete get his revenge? Or, fall on his face? 

Fun fact! - if K-State wins tonight, it's all-time record will be 1,856-1,856.

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5452 on: April 26, 2019, 03:27:12 PM »
I am all in on my new guy Pete and am very confident he will smash an inferior OU team proving them wrong for firing him because he lost tons of games and proving me wrong for thinking that he is a small time loser that would only be hired by a small time loser.

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5453 on: April 29, 2019, 10:37:38 AM »
I hate it when OU is totally right.  Damn those guys

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5454 on: April 29, 2019, 10:42:23 AM »
Looked like a crap ton of no shows for "sold out" games, and they really blew a great chance and starting pitching performance yesterday.


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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5455 on: April 29, 2019, 12:31:57 PM »
Looked like a crap ton of no shows for "sold out" games, and they really blew a great chance and starting pitching performance yesterday.

It was over when they got to our bullpen on Sunday. Probably should have rolled the dice and kept Wicks in since our pen is so unreliable.

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5456 on: April 29, 2019, 12:37:45 PM »
OU had scouted the “that Coach doesn’t win baseball games” part of our squad and we didn’t see it coming.  How did they know?

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5457 on: April 29, 2019, 03:14:01 PM »
OU had scouted the “that Coach doesn’t win baseball games” part of our squad and we didn’t see it coming.  How did they know?

I still don't like the hire, think it was small timey, won't work out long term, etc. But, for a team picked unanimously to finish last in the Big 12, they're probably exceeding expectations (Tied for 6th with 3 series left to play - at Baylor, home vs. WVU, at KU).

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5458 on: April 29, 2019, 03:34:24 PM »
the thing is, the Big 12 is pretty crappy at baseball and if we gave a little effort we could be pretty competitive.

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5460 on: May 09, 2019, 09:01:49 AM »
MIGHT MAKE THE BIG12 TOURNEY!

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5462 on: May 09, 2019, 10:01:40 AM »
is our new coach a good recruiter?  have no idea.  i mean i guess until this new guy wins a dr. p probably can't crap on brad hill too much

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5463 on: May 09, 2019, 10:03:25 AM »
It took Brad Hill like 17 seasons to win a Dr. Pepper.

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5464 on: May 09, 2019, 10:21:24 AM »
Brad Hill is basically LHC Bill Snyder, easily the best coach in program history (like football, not saying much).  So again, hopefully known loser coach we have now if better than goat Hill.

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5465 on: May 09, 2019, 10:24:24 AM »

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5466 on: May 09, 2019, 12:06:42 PM »
yeah, there is really no way to know what this guy's winning % would look like in this conference.

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5467 on: May 09, 2019, 01:06:39 PM »
Well, we went from hiring a D2 coach (Brad Hill) to a coach who had coached 3 previous P5 schools, so I'd say the University is trending up when it comes to baseball hires.

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5468 on: May 09, 2019, 01:08:28 PM »
yeah, there is really no way to know what this guy's winning % would look like in this conference.

Interestingly, Hughes has a chance to finish better at K-State in his first year than he did in his first year at OU (28-27 overall, 8-16 in conference - 8th place).

Improvement!

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5469 on: May 09, 2019, 01:11:53 PM »
If he gets us to the big 12 tournament, I'll take it for his first year.

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5470 on: May 09, 2019, 01:15:06 PM »
If he gets us to the big 12 tournament, I'll take it for his first year.

I still think he was a poor hire, but, yes, making Big 12 in his first year would be an acceptable season (not great, not terrible - acceptable). If he can talk Brennan and Thompson into staying next year and find some decent bullpen help, he should have a good chance to move up in the standings.

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5471 on: May 09, 2019, 01:21:21 PM »
To me, it's hard to compare the hire. I just have no idea what our actual coaching options were. I would have thrown the kitchen sink at Rob Vaughn. An up and comer cat, who's already the head coach at Maryland.

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5472 on: May 09, 2019, 01:27:28 PM »
To me, it's hard to compare the hire. I just have no idea what our actual coaching options were. I would have thrown the kitchen sink at Rob Vaughn. An up and comer cat, who's already the head coach at Maryland.

That would require a bold move from our AD and that's something that hasn't happened since Huggins was hired. They could have thrown money at Vaughn, an assistant at a proven ACC/SEC school, etc. Instead, Gene settled for the guy that Castiglione said was (paraphrasing) "a good guy, but couldn't win enough for a program like Oklahoma."

Such a K-State thing to do and that's why the hire stinks. But, who knows, maybe Hughes will prove the doubters (and his prior track record) wrong.

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5473 on: May 09, 2019, 01:32:37 PM »
correct me if i'm wrong, don't 8 out of 9 teams make the big 12 tournament? 

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Re: KSU Booze Cats 2015
« Reply #5474 on: May 09, 2019, 01:41:43 PM »