(05-19-2017 09:38 AM)POTUS#4 Wrote:  

(05-15-2017 03:43 PM)Longhorn Wrote:  One more year for Ike, and he better coach the guys to a top three CAA finish, or I'd be coach shopping

Man, that's pretty harsh. I hope JMU won't let a bad situation linger like they've done in the past at times, but I think you've got to give the guy a full recruiting cycle to develop some pitchers. From everything I've read, he's well regarded out in the hinterlands, so I'm still cautiously optimistic that we'll see a nice turnaround in the next couple of years. I guess the red flag to me will be if he doesn't appear to be out recruiting the middle-of the-pack CAA teams after a few years. I'm not able to judge that, but I imagine there are some others on here that can.

I admit to having lost patience with the direction of the baseball program. I love college ball, and there's no reason JMU can't be doing what the women's softball team is doing. When UVA hired their current HC their program literally took off and left us in the dust. It chaps my competitive a** every time I think about how JB let Spanky continue season after mediocre season, and yet JB pulled the plug on HC's of other sports (like softball) when the results were't there. I wish Ike nothing but the best, but I want to see results.