re: Softball @ Tennessee

Played and coached. It's not that funny.

If it is all the players fault, then what is the use of paying college coaches millions of dollars? Just get a High School Coach that can recruit for 75,000 dollars and buy good players.

You brought up two players having good years. That is how it should be. Improving year to year.

What about the players regressing, "Edwards and Bergeron". What about the portal players that our coaches thought were going to be good offensively?

I read another post on here from a dude that they did the research on portal players and it’s very hit and miss in yr 1…some with great numbers but others that were AA not so much..I do not know the inner workings of this team, did the 2 AA work as hard this yr? Do they feel the pressure of last yr? What I do know the coaches coach the same way every yr. I’m not a fan of Beth because of the lack of passion, energy from this team but she is a very good pitching coach! On Neal , he led the ACC in hitting at Louisville of all places and was top 5 in virtually every major category in LSU history in his first yr as hitting coach. Again, they were also 2nd in sec play in hitting so I give him the benefit of the doubt in the hitting dept. He has been successful every yr in his career but this yr so could be the players aren’t performing the same way?

We shall see at the end of the season. Yes, Bryce has been successful, but this "hitting slump" started at the end of last year.

I'm not saying, "Fire Bryce". I just think what he did this off season isn't working this year. Hopefully, he learns from it.

I say it's 50 percent coaching and 50 percent players performing. You say it is 100 percent on the players. That is not true. In the coaching ranks, you are "supposed" to say, "If we win, it's because of the players'. If we lose, it's because of me".

Of course, Coaches say that, but really don't believe it. It's just something they "should" say.

I have no doubt Lane will have a good offense. He will adjust to anything.

Oh I agree with you on who should take the blame from a coaches standpoint to the team but that’s different from the general public always saying it’s coaches all the time. As far as 50/50, I don’t know without knowing what the plans were, how much the kids work last summer or during Christmas break,what are the practice habits.. are they following the plan the coach laid out or are they doing their own thing? It’s hard to say without being in the building but just like I give Dobson credit for developing 8-10 AA hitters, it’s hard to tell who is at fault without being inside the program and know what’s going on.

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