Guys....when you're in elimination rounds, sometimes you simply run out of pitching. It's a lot of innings you've played! I mean come on.
Vanderbilt had three times the pitching depth we had.
Hopefully, the newer facilities upgrades will help us in recruiting, but, my goodness, what tradition in baseball, do we have, other than the Magadan years, that would entice any great recruit to come to Bama??? Gaspard did pretty darn good this season in my opinion.
sip
Well we ONLY had 2 losing SEC seasons under Wells, Mitch has had ONE winning season in SEC play. Also more "since Wells":
10 of 12 years made a regional
6 SEC tournament titles
2 SEC regular season champs (3 SEC West Titles)
3 CWS appearances
9 years of 40+ wins
4 years of 50+ wins
And a runner up spot
Became the first team ever to have 4 players with 20+ HR's
Set a record with 13 HR's in ONE GAME
At least 4 Super Regional appearances
All that under Wells in the last 20 years and I'm sure I'm missing some things. So if those things won't bring in any recruits NOTHING will. And Gaspard being the lower than average coach that he is, a renovated Joe will NOT help him make a Super Regional.
And Sip, we got into the elimination rounds on our own and our pitching depth sucks due to some bad moves over the years. Look at how many arm injuries we've had under Gaspard. It's been unbelievable.
Any decent coach would have had this team in a regional this year, even with all the supposed "hardships" Gaspard claims that he had. As I said in another thread (might have been this one) that it is NOT HARD to make your own makeshift facilities since The Joe is being re-done. You can make a very nice batting cage in ONE DAY, and you don't need hardly any room to throw on any day.
Gaspard is full of excuses and not full of results. He's posted ONE YEAR of 40+ wins and has only ONE season over .500 in the SEC. We deserve better and nobody will make me think we don't have a decent program here because we sure as heck do.