Just wondering what everyone thinks? Is it time to make a change in the baseball program? Before you think this is an overreaction to one tournament loss consider the following:
--In two years only one regular season title and no post season titles. While this is a short time period Ed's own words were when we joined the Big East-"We want to dominate the Big East" That's hardly domination folks
--No NCAA appearances in the last three years. And the last time we did make it to the NCAA's it should be pointed out we finished in 8th place in the conference.
--Attendance and over all interest has dropped significantly over the last two years.
--Following up on the point above the attendance at the recent Big East tourney was an embarrassment. Barely drawing 10,000 people for four days is a joke. (Yes I know better than last year but we need to raise the bar a little higher than that)
--Baseball booster interest declining.
--Good assistant coaches leaving. It's no secret that a couple of these guys left because they either couldn't get along with Ed or didn't like his style of play.
--Speaking of style of play, Ed's style is fine when you are winning but even then pretty boring baseball. You have to play flawless baseball to succeed and lately his teams have been far from that.
--While pitching has been ok to good, our everyday line up lacks any fire power and frankly very few guys that can hit the ball at all. Two innings in a row yesterday we left the bases loaded. Why? Because time and again we are sending up .250-.260 hitters to come through in those clutch spots. Yes we need speed to play at TDA, but can we not recruit some sticks?
--Over the last two years Ed has made more and more bad moves. Look no further back than his move yesterday to bring DeCaster in who has struggled mightily??
--Lastly, and perhaps more importantly to many of us, we have lost 11 of the last 14 versus Nebraska. This is totally unacceptable. Nebraska has not been very good during this stretch. And there is no reason, despite what Husker fans say, that Creighton shouldn't be as good or better than NU at baseball.
I know some of you really don't care, which I guess is a problem in itself as even though we are a northern school we still could have some decent success and at least make the NCAA's on a regular basis.
So what do you think?
--In two years only one regular season title and no post season titles. While this is a short time period Ed's own words were when we joined the Big East-"We want to dominate the Big East" That's hardly domination folks
--No NCAA appearances in the last three years. And the last time we did make it to the NCAA's it should be pointed out we finished in 8th place in the conference.
--Attendance and over all interest has dropped significantly over the last two years.
--Following up on the point above the attendance at the recent Big East tourney was an embarrassment. Barely drawing 10,000 people for four days is a joke. (Yes I know better than last year but we need to raise the bar a little higher than that)
--Baseball booster interest declining.
--Good assistant coaches leaving. It's no secret that a couple of these guys left because they either couldn't get along with Ed or didn't like his style of play.
--Speaking of style of play, Ed's style is fine when you are winning but even then pretty boring baseball. You have to play flawless baseball to succeed and lately his teams have been far from that.
--While pitching has been ok to good, our everyday line up lacks any fire power and frankly very few guys that can hit the ball at all. Two innings in a row yesterday we left the bases loaded. Why? Because time and again we are sending up .250-.260 hitters to come through in those clutch spots. Yes we need speed to play at TDA, but can we not recruit some sticks?
--Over the last two years Ed has made more and more bad moves. Look no further back than his move yesterday to bring DeCaster in who has struggled mightily??
--Lastly, and perhaps more importantly to many of us, we have lost 11 of the last 14 versus Nebraska. This is totally unacceptable. Nebraska has not been very good during this stretch. And there is no reason, despite what Husker fans say, that Creighton shouldn't be as good or better than NU at baseball.
I know some of you really don't care, which I guess is a problem in itself as even though we are a northern school we still could have some decent success and at least make the NCAA's on a regular basis.
So what do you think?
