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Spanky's Swan Song
Dropped a close one to that bastion of division 1 athletics- Longwood...are they the real LU or fake LU? Results notwithstanding, I give Spanky credit for being able to tough out an afternoon like this in the dugout. He's no spring chicken.
02-25-2015 06:39 PM
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(02-25-2015 06:39 PM)jmutoml757 Wrote:  Dropped a close one to that bastion of division 1 athletics- Longwood...are they the real LU or fake LU? Results notwithstanding, I give Spanky credit for being able to tough out an afternoon like this in the dugout. He's no spring chicken.

Longwood has one of the top pro prospects in the state in Kyri Washington. And midweek games are nothing to lose sleep over. It's not uncommon for Top 10 teams to drop their midweek game.

Still, this is not a great team and it will be disappointing to see Spanky go out on a subpar year.
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^ makes sense
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(02-26-2015 12:02 AM)JMUDukeDawg Wrote:  
(02-25-2015 06:39 PM)jmutoml757 Wrote:  Dropped a close one to that bastion of division 1 athletics- Longwood...are they the real LU or fake LU? Results notwithstanding, I give Spanky credit for being able to tough out an afternoon like this in the dugout. He's no spring chicken.
It's not uncommon for Top 10 teams to drop their midweek game.

Still, this is not a great team and it will be disappointing to see Spanky go out on a subpar year.

Same excuse used over the past few years for ol' Spanky as his teams get smacked around by other VA schools. 2011 was the last season worth watching. If they go sub .500 that will be 4 straight seasons of losing baseball.

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(02-26-2015 11:59 AM)Bawlmer Duke Wrote:  
(02-26-2015 12:02 AM)JMUDukeDawg Wrote:  
(02-25-2015 06:39 PM)jmutoml757 Wrote:  Dropped a close one to that bastion of division 1 athletics- Longwood...are they the real LU or fake LU? Results notwithstanding, I give Spanky credit for being able to tough out an afternoon like this in the dugout. He's no spring chicken.
It's not uncommon for Top 10 teams to drop their midweek game.

Still, this is not a great team and it will be disappointing to see Spanky go out on a subpar year.

Same excuse used over the past few years for ol' Spanky as his teams get smacked around by other VA schools. 2011 was the last season worth watching. If they go sub .500 that will be 4 straight seasons of losing baseball.

JMU Athletics: http://ak.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/...d-team.jpg

This. It was a mid-week game for longwood too, so this excuse is lame.
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(02-26-2015 12:58 PM)atljmualum Wrote:  
(02-26-2015 11:59 AM)Bawlmer Duke Wrote:  
(02-26-2015 12:02 AM)JMUDukeDawg Wrote:  
(02-25-2015 06:39 PM)jmutoml757 Wrote:  Dropped a close one to that bastion of division 1 athletics- Longwood...are they the real LU or fake LU? Results notwithstanding, I give Spanky credit for being able to tough out an afternoon like this in the dugout. He's no spring chicken.
It's not uncommon for Top 10 teams to drop their midweek game.

Still, this is not a great team and it will be disappointing to see Spanky go out on a subpar year.

Same excuse used over the past few years for ol' Spanky as his teams get smacked around by other VA schools. 2011 was the last season worth watching. If they go sub .500 that will be 4 straight seasons of losing baseball.

JMU Athletics: http://ak.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/...d-team.jpg

This. It was a mid-week game for longwood too, so this excuse is lame.

My point was this seems to be a trivial thing to call out based on the significance of one game. This is baseball, series wins and losses are what matters.

To me, what is much more troubling is how we have not had a legitimate pro prospect in some time. That means we are not bringing in good recruits and not developing anybody once they get here. Almost every D1 school in the state is ahead of us in that category. That, combined with terrible conference results, are way worse than a mid-week loss to Longwood.
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What in the hell does it matter if the game is played on the weekend or during the week. This is news to me. I thought you were supposed to try to win all the games.
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(02-28-2015 11:38 AM)DoubleDDuke Wrote:  What in the hell does it matter if the game is played on the weekend or during the week. This is news to me. I thought you were supposed to try to win all the games.

Don't you know the rules. Weekday games, the Right Fielder has to Pitch and the Shortstop has to Catch and you must reverse the batting order? Rules of college baseball, come on get with it.
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(02-28-2015 11:38 AM)DoubleDDuke Wrote:  What in the hell does it matter if the game is played on the weekend or during the week. This is news to me. I thought you were supposed to try to win all the games.

Your three best pitchers go on the weekend. College staffs are not very deep so a lot of time you are either putting together a hodge podge of guys or experimenting with guys during your weekday game.

You're trying to win all the games, but the weekday games can be more of a crap shoot because of that. A top 25 team can lose their midweek game and won't drop nearly as far as if they drop a weekend game or series they shouldn't lose.
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(02-28-2015 11:43 AM)BleedingPurple Wrote:  
(02-28-2015 11:38 AM)DoubleDDuke Wrote:  What in the hell does it matter if the game is played on the weekend or during the week. This is news to me. I thought you were supposed to try to win all the games.

Don't you know the rules. Weekday games, the Right Fielder has to Pitch and the Shortstop has to Catch and you must reverse the batting order? Rules of college baseball, come on get with it.

Sometimes that's not too far from the truth...
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As an example, No. 2 LSU lost to Nichols St. midweek last week and swept their weekend series. They stayed No. 2.


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Spanky has sucked the life out of the program and losing against Big South and MAAC competition is no longer a surprise. Longwood picked 9th in Big South preseason poll while Canisius was picked #1 and Quinnipiac was #5 in the MAAC preseason conference poll. I'm fairly certain we only have 1 tournament this season too.

UNCW and CoC schedule better opponents or play in multiple tournaments.
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(03-01-2015 02:06 PM)Bawlmer Duke Wrote:  Spanky has sucked the life out of the program and losing against Big South and MAAC competition is no longer a surprise. Longwood picked 9th in Big South preseason poll while Canisius was picked #1 and Quinnipiac was #5 in the MAAC preseason conference poll. I'm fairly certain we only have 1 tournament this season too.

UNCW and CoC schedule better opponents or play in multiple tournaments.

That he has, and by his own admission in recent interviews admits to being tired and that he's grown lazy. He should have been "moved" out of the HC position many years ago.
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(03-01-2015 02:59 PM)Longhorn Wrote:  
(03-01-2015 02:06 PM)Bawlmer Duke Wrote:  Spanky has sucked the life out of the program and losing against Big South and MAAC competition is no longer a surprise. Longwood picked 9th in Big South preseason poll while Canisius was picked #1 and Quinnipiac was #5 in the MAAC preseason conference poll. I'm fairly certain we only have 1 tournament this season too.

UNCW and CoC schedule better opponents or play in multiple tournaments.

That he has, and by his own admission in recent interviews admits to being tired and that he's grown lazy. He should have been "moved" out of the HC position many years ago.

Damn, I don't follow college baseball closely but I'd still like us to be good. It seems like a pretty desirable position so we should have some good candidates to move the program forward after this year. Spanky has been a good coach but everybody runs out of gas at some point.
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Beat Maryland a ranked team recently but 0-4 in the CAA after getting spanked by CoC yesterday 12-0
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(03-28-2015 11:34 AM)Bawlmer Duke Wrote:  Beat Maryland a ranked team recently but 0-4 in the CAA after getting spanked by CoC yesterday 12-0

That's the nature of college baseball! The midweek games aren't as meaningful as the weekend series. Midweek games tend to be nonconference games where each team's best pitcher isn't on the mound. USC beat #2 Vandy, #4 TCU, and #5 UCLA in one weekend and then lost to unranked UC Irvine the following Tuesday.

A win against a ranked Maryland team is great, but the games that really matter are the conference games on the weekends, and obviously we're not getting it done in those games.
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I can't really take college baseball seriously until they stop playing with metal bats.
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(03-28-2015 01:49 PM)DoubleDDuke Wrote:  I can't really take college baseball seriously until they stop playing with metal bats.

The bats they use now are worse IMO than the wooden bats used in the MLB.
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IMO, there's just no reason why these strong young men should be using a mettle bat. You see these games that are like 14-9 and it's just stupid. On a side note, most people don't understand that women's basketball is smaller than a men's basketball. It makes some sense because overall, women tend to have smaller hands. Thing is, same rim. So when people say "Why are the women so much better at shooing free throws?" they don't even take into account that they're shooting with a smaller basketball with the same rim.
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