Mitch Gaspard

Vinny said:

We are a football school now. [emoji458]. I do miss the days from the mid to late 90s where our baseball team was a fixture in Omaha.


Not sure anyone can argue that Vinny, but what if football had to deal with the limited scholarships like baseball has to? There is more parity in college baseball than maybe any other college sport. Hence the reason teams like Kennesaw State can be a college world series participant last year and teams like Troy can be a legit program on a yearly basis. Not knocking other sports by any means but living in the college baseball world is tough due to there being dozens of elite teams and not just a few like football and basketball. It is what it is. Alabama is the 15th winningest college baseball program as of 2012, sorry to lazy to dig deep enough to just went with google's first result. . Football is 6th overall I believe. Not a major separation there! Just football has won championships while baseball has only been a runner-up.
To get back to the topic at hand, is Gaspard the man to lead us to a championship? Time will tell. I think he will put a team on the field that wins more than loses but not sure that the University of Alabama should have/tolerate that! We should be an Omaha team at least 2-3 times every 5 years in my opinion!
Non of this was intended to flame anyone, so please just take it as an opinion and feel free to submit yours! The baseball board needs some life in it!!!!

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crimsonkelly said:

Vinny said:

We are a football school now. [emoji458]. I do miss the days from the mid to late 90s where our baseball team was a fixture in Omaha.


Not sure anyone can argue that Vinny, but what if football had to deal with the limited scholarships like baseball has to? There is more parity in college baseball than maybe any other college sport. Hence the reason teams like Kennesaw State can be a college world series participant last year and teams like Troy can be a legit program on a yearly basis. Not knocking other sports by any means but living in the college baseball world is tough due to there being dozens of elite teams and not just a few like football and basketball. It is what it is. Alabama is the 15th winningest college baseball program as of 2012, sorry to lazy to dig deep enough to just went with google's first result. . Football is 6th overall I believe. Not a major separation there! Just football has won championships while baseball has only been a runner-up.
To get back to the topic at hand, is Gaspard the man to lead us to a championship? Time will tell. I think he will put a team on the field that wins more than loses but not sure that the University of Alabama should have/tolerate that! We should be an Omaha team at least 2-3 times every 5 years in my opinion!
Non of this was intended to flame anyone, so please just take it as an opinion and feel free to submit yours! The baseball board needs some life in it!!!!

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I want a good team year in and year out that goes to the tourney and plays good sound baseball. I think being an Omaha team at least 2-3 years every 5 years is unrealistic for any program with the limited schollies and parity in college baseball. I think a more realistic goal would be 1 time in 5 years and make the tourney 4 to 5 out of 5 years and I am hopeful we can make a run at Omaha this year with some luck and good fortune.

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TiderJ said:

crimsonkelly said:

I want a good team year in and year out that goes to the tourney and plays good sound baseball. I think being an Omaha team at least 2-3 years every 5 years is unrealistic for any program with the limited schollies and parity in college baseball. I think a more realistic goal would be 1 time in 5 years and make the tourney 4 to 5 out of 5 years and I am hopeful we can make a run at Omaha this year with some luck and good fortune.

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You are probably correct with the 1 in every 5 years. I got a little carried away...

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