IU Baseball, NCAA regional, May 31-June 3 @Knoxville

[IUHoosierJoe 1,158]

16 hours ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

The complaints are pretty wild. 

Also.. we are 48th in the country in baseball spending. 

It wouldn’t be a message board if somebody didn’t want a coach fired, lol.

[LamarCheeks 18,943]

Regarding the baseball program -- some in this discussion think this should be a linear journey, with a rigid, proscribed set of waypoints, leading, without exception to a logical and predictable conclusion. 

[Certified Sunshine Pumper 9,189]

13 hours ago, Aaron said:

People need to please stop with this 'Fire Mercer" stuff. He has been to three NCAA Tournaments in five seasons and was one game from making it four in five. Overall the program has been to the NCAA tourney eight times in eleven seasons and has been far and away the most successful Big Ten programs the past decade.

I have no argument the pitching has been frustrating at times and it needs to be more consistent and add depth. However, this powerhouse some people in Hoosier Nation seem to think needs to be built is called out of control expectations. The Big Ten is basically the Mountain West or Atlantic 10 in basketball terms and IU is far and away the flag carrier of the league right now. 

Mercer is getting as good of if not better results then anyone would at a northern school. If it were this easy someone would have taken over and dominated the Big Ten and Indiana is the closest to doing that recently despite being far from it. He deserves kudos for figuring it out each season and producing a solid product. Now team needs to be better from the get go and especially on the mound going forward and if anyone watched the presser on IU's YouTube channel after today it is clear he knows that. 

As long as this team is going to postseason nearly every season as they are now there is little to complain about other than a few tweaks with the pitching that need to be shored up and hopefully will.      

This is excellent. 

I've also stated... Mercer is 38 years old, that's so young as a coach. I hope he reflective and willing to grow. If so, we have such a great baseline/foundation for what we are/have established here... we can become more. 

Still very excited for the future.  Here's to hoping for good healthy and Sinnard, Foley, and Grable to be in Cream and Crimson next year! 

[LamarCheeks 18,943]

Dang. 

Evansville wins the Greenville regional and will play Tennessee in the super regional. 

Just think, that coulda been us against the Aces -- well, if we hadn't given up 27 runs in our final two games. 

[LamarCheeks 18,943]

BTW, 

Tennessee won the NCAA title last night. 

If only we hadn't given up 27 runs in our final two games, and coulda gotten out of that regional -- that coulda be us. 

LOL. 

[Certified Sunshine Pumper 9,189]

Tennessee is on an incredible 5 year run. 

2022 was still their best team. By a lot