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LamarCheeks

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

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We don't have any runs. Southern Miss has 15. 

I don't like our chances for a comeback. 

Since there's no run rule, we're on pace to lose roughly 34-0.

I think that might be a record in NCAA regional play. 

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22 minutes ago, maharkn said:

This is when you know your coach isn't the guy. Time to send him packing

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Tracy Smith got nine seasons, Jeff Mercer should get nine seasons... after all Mercer is a really great guy.

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After hitting 6 home runs in the Big Ten tourney last week, Nebraska's Josh Caron is 1 for 11 with a softly-hit single in the NCAA tourney this week. 

 

Whatever he was using in Omaha must have stayed there. 

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3 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

After hitting 6 home runs in the Big Ten tourney last week, Nebraska's Josh Caron is 1 for 11 with a softly-hit single in the NCAA tourney this week. 

 

Whatever he was using in Omaha must have stayed there. 

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3 hours ago, maharkn said:

This is when you know your coach isn't the guy. Time to send him packing

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IU was fortunate to make the tournament and get a win from our best pitcher. That said I don’t see anything that’s suggests the program gets a whole lot better in the future with Mercer.

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Tracy Smith got nine seasons, Jeff Mercer should get nine seasons... after all Mercer is a really great guy.
IU has the talent on the offensive side that could attract a really good coach. If your going to keep mercer he needs to be on the phone tonight talking to pitchers.

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52 minutes ago, Alford Bailey said:

The warm weather schools have such an advantage that I’m not sure it’s worth spending anymore money on baseball tbh.

Dude, Indiana State's got the entire athletic department budget of a ham sandwich, and they're still playing.  I don't see how this is an excuse?

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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.      

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13 hours ago, Alford Bailey said:

The warm weather schools have such an advantage that I’m not sure it’s worth spending anymore money on baseball tbh.

Exactly..  spend more so we can do different things to combat that? 

You can't be ok with having the money we do and are 48th in spending. Literally Purdue out spends us. 

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