I don't think he liked being here. And I agree with you: he's a good coach but a terrible person. Tough to accept, but both things can be true.

College athletics have gotten crazy. I think it's important to remember that these are still student athletes and for most of them this will be just a small part of their lives.

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fightinag said:

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How many Walks did we give up tonight ?

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13 free bases

10 walks
3 hit by pitch

Quite frankly that is bush league. Can it change? Yes. But apparently our offseason left a lot to be desired.

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Not terribly impressed with our new pitching coach's work thus far.

You can be a bad person and a great coach. Lots of coaches walk the line of being a jerk to players and getting the most out of them from a talent standpoint. Schloss seems to fit that description pretty perfectly.

The line between winning at all costs and winning with class is something Aggies have always struggled with. Frankly, most aggies seem content to win less but act like we have some moral superiority to others because we do things the "right way". You even seen derivatives of this mindset on threads like tonight when posters get shouted down for making fairly honest, but negative observations. Happens in football all the time. Part me believes that this is what keeps us from having a level of success in the big 3 sports that is more in line with the athletic dept resources.

To be fair it's also what separates us from having enormous scandals like Penn State (football) had. It's why we have things like the RWB out. I don't think we're morally superior and, like most of us, would love to see our athletic programs win championships. But I mostly just care about our players and want them to see them succeed in life.

AggieArchitect04 said:

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To be fair it's also what separates us from having enormous scandals like Penn State (football) had. It's why we have things like the RWB out. I don't think we're morally superior and, like most of us, would love to see our athletic programs win championships. But I mostly just care about our players and want them to see them succeed in life.

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Yep. I wonder how many posters here would be happy with a scandal like at Penn State or Baylor if it meant winning more games.

You mentioned RWB out that people still talk about. I'd bet most people couldn't tell you who won the national title in 2001 without looking it up (or at least wouldn't be able to if it weren't one of the best teams ever assembled).

Some people are way too invested in a game played by 18-22 year olds and give up all morals in pursuit of it.

I think Earley has a lot to prove. This new pitching coach has an already developed starting rotation. The middle relief is bad. So far he has quite a bit to show us. That should have improved. Is Longley gonna get off the bus? You have the most talented offense in America. Why is it floundering against vastly inferior pitching? The Aggies backups are a great lineup. You still can't get more than this?

Not seeing it.

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This is more than a few bad innings. We have 7 games against far inferior opponents. We have maybe 2 solid performances at the plate, but not a lot of plate discipline and tons of weak popups. We have major holes in the lineup at first and an outfield spot with how kash has played. Hopefully sorrell coming back helps, but the alarm bells should be going off for everyone solely based on how the AB's are going. We aren't drawing a ton of walks and consistently getting loud outs where's it's obvious that the runs will eventually show up. It's concerning - especially because of the level of opponent we have played so far.

Weekend starters seem solid, but apparently no one else can throw a strike. Too many free bases and zero feel from the staff on how to manage the game. Would expect some of that to come with experience but the staff was so poorly managed tonight it's tough to ignore. It would be one thing to see this vs sec opponents, but we look awful versus teams with far inferior talent. There's way too much talent on this team for them to look this bad against such poor competition.

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Really there is no better way to put it.