Once had a coach like this for a traveling team…half the team quit to go to barbituwait on line for Jethro Tull tickets.
The night before, after Hawkeye baseball came from behind to beat Nebraska in front of 5,000, first-year head coach Darin Erstad was pretty blunt in postgame interviews, accusing his team of being timid.
These are strange days at Haymarket Park. Tense days. It comes from the pressure of a team learning how to win, with a coaching staff that is relentless in teaching players to do the little things that make up a winning culture. It also comes from expectations that, frankly, this program hasn’t earned.
...“It’s a work in progress,” Erstad said after Saturday’s win. “It doesn’t happen in one game. It won’t happen overnight. There’s no magic moment.”
...“They hear people say conference, conference, conference series,” Erstad said. “But this group of guys have not had a lot of success in conference. None of them have been to a conference tournament.”
...“Winning is a culture,” Erstad said. “Until you close out a series in conference play, it takes a certain mind-set. You have to learn how to do that. They’re not just going to hand it to you. You don’t think Iowa is going to give us their best shot every time out? Darned right they are. We have to find out what it smells like. We have to feel it. It’s a process. It’s not going to be pretty.”
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1. Edmundo got dem ol' Kozma blues again mamaNice pun!
No doubt once you got the tickets, you were sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent.
And they'll be gritty. Really gritty.
I don't think #2 was implying baseball was a factor in the move to the Big Ten. Rather the point was that moving all sports to the Big Ten, no matter the reason, was the final blow the regression of Nebraska baseball. In the past Nebraska could recruit Texas heavily, promising guys the chance to play in the Big 12, now they're just another Big Ten baseball program and the Big Ten, in baseball, is essentially a mid major conference.
Purdue is legit, though it seems every 'strong' B!G ends up disappointing in May/June.
In truth, not all programs are fully funded, meaning they all don't have 11.7 scholarships. The $$$ value of those are not equal to say a football scholarship. Players are evaluated more closely than say football or hoops, for purposes of scholarship renewal, or even increased 'share' each year, though it is not common to reduce the fraction of a scholarship one player may receive from one year to the next. Best case scenario, instead of .3, you might get .5 your next season.
more accurately, his words, summarized by another.
a bit dated, but this was inside a longer series of pieces, which included remarks from Polk.
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