Referring to the fact that 6 players jumped in the transfer portal within two days of the last game. Some posters have also alluded to there being some behind the scenes issues that are not public knowledge.
Even worse 3 of them are very talented freshmen, who will end up some place like Arkansas and be among the league leaders the next couple years.
The only way to beat Oklahoma is to have two arms they haven’t seen and a competent offense.
Yelp that was over before it got started good. I agree Gorilla ball is in and unfortunately Bama is way behind in that category.
Well we best just get used to it. Alabama is about to be on a steep decline barring a crazy transfer portal class. Arkansas, Auburn, and LSU WILL be ahead of Alabama as programs if the current trajectory continues as is.
I get it, but how is he causing power hitters to not hit for power? Is he changing their swing? Their approach at the plate? I know he's a small ball guy, but what is he doing to cause girls to not hit HR's? He's the "hitting coach", but I guarantee these girls are seeing their private hitting instructors this Summer. What is the change when they get back on campus?
For 5-6 years now we have been in an obvious decline in hitting. I don’t know how much obvious it can be, but Murphy has been so damn hard headed in replicating the Arizona style of hitting while everyone else has gone more to what Oklahoma and UCLA does. What has kept us up is pitching and one or two hitters. Had Auburn not got caught with a scandal with their assistant coach then Auburn probably never gives back the state to us. This is 100% an Alabama coaching issue, and one that must be fixed.
I'm definitely not trying to debate. I was genuinely asking for my own curiosity. You are spot on that hitting has declined, while other programs have excelled. It's crazy that a player would fly back like that to see their own instructor, but that tells me all I need to know about what is going on. Something absolutely has to change, or the regression to the mean will be dramatic.
Overall he isn't a small ball guy. He sees an 8th grader hit a HR and offers her. That player tops out and we have her for 4 years. You don't have to be a big girl to hit HRs. Take KB Sides for example. In 4 years at Bama (442 ABs she hits 3 HRs). In 1 year at Arkansas (189 ABs) she hits 13 Hrs. There isn't anything wrong with small ball. You have to have players that can bunt. With the new rule on slapping. You shouldn't have a batter go up just about every time and slap. We had a lot of potential last year, they were just young. We didn't develop as hitters and that's on Murphy. Now take Hemphill. She was lazy everywhere except at the plate. (I also realize that if she hadn't caught last year, we wouldn't have gone to the WCWS, but that's also on Murphy for mis recruiting catchers) If I was coaching against her. I would pitch her inside, let her jerk 2 foul. Then I would pitch her outside. Try to strike her out or walk her. He can only pinch run for her once unless you take her out of the game. My point is who would you rather have at bat for their Sr year. KB with 13 HRs or Hemphill with 14 HRs. KB could slap, bunt, hit for power, steal bases and wasn't a weak spot on defense. Hemphill was a one tool player.
Well here is the thing. I think there would be far less Murph defenders and optimists had Corey Myers not be revealed to having inappropriate relationships with the players. Because Clint myers made Murph and Tim Walton look like dinosaurs in that 4 years and Mickey is about to do it again.
You have alluded to Murphy having committed inappropriate things that have not been made public in this and other posts. If this is a valid concern, it should be made public. So, why not bring forward the information?
