Buck Turgidson said:

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our administration will lie there and take it anytime the sips want to humiliate us and take what they want. They made no attempt to stop the sips from completely gutting our best baseball program in school history. They made no serious attempt to keep the sips out of the SEC. There's a word for that and it rhymes with ducks.

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Aw shucks.

LB12Diamond said:

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TxAg76 said:

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Coaching matters.

A lot.

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You did not already know this one prior to the season?

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We all did.
But the magnitude of that reality really resonated and showed itself this year, in every aspect of the game.

From the junkiest of the baseball junkies all the way down to the people who may have seen their first game this week….
sprinkled all across that spectrum are those that felt you could take this roster with almost anybody for coaches and just roll a ball out there, clunk around, and stumble our way to another year of post-season play.

Not the case.
And now we're about to find out where TAMU leadership really stands relative to building (and sustaining) a championship caliber baseball team.

Buck Turgidson said:

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The main lessons we learned are: 1) that our athletic department is still completely incompetent for something like the 75th year in a row; and 2) that our administration (now that Bowtie is gone) will lie there and take it anytime the sips want to humiliate us and take what they want. They made no attempt to stop the sips from completely gutting our best baseball program in school history. They made no serious attempt to keep the sips out of the SEC. There's a word for that and it rhymes with ducks. Its like everyone at the top of our university leadership is told that as a condition of your employment you can have some success, but you may not ever pass the University of Texas in any lasting academic or athletic way. They've been assigned the #2 spot by the state and they are damn sure going to stay in it.

That's not "self loathing", that's instead overwhelming contempt for our university leadership (academic and athletic) for decades of malpractice.

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For the 100th time….
There was zero that A&M could do to keep Schloss. He was leaving to goto a school with
a) greater baseball history
b) just as much (or more) financial resources
c) less weird (in his opinion)
d) his best buddy (and buttie too) as their AD

Sean98 said:

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I'm going to go back and address the original question of "what did we learn?"

I believe, and said it from the fall, that I was concerned about the construction of the team. I was worried that we went after bats with a "we'll figure out where they play later" mentality. We had a ton of guys playing out of position (and in some cases players that really don't fit any position) which made us really suspect defensively, especially early in the season

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This is a really good point to look back on. That mentality + the lack of main guys participating in fall reeks of blatant arrogance.

You can't cut corners to field a championship level team and you have to respect the game and what is required out of every position. I have zero faith Earley truly understands what it takes to oversee a major D1 baseball program at this point I'm his career. And it's too bad because he's likely going to stick around.

Sean98 said:

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I believe, and said it from the fall, that I was concerned about the construction of the team. I was worried that we went after bats with a "we'll figure out where they play later" mentality. We had a ton of guys playing out of position (and in some cases players that really don't fit any position) which made us really suspect defensively, especially early in the season. I'm all for having 1-2 Swiss Army knives on the bench for depth, but you can't roll 6-7 guys deep that aren't great defenders, or are out of position. How many guys would you truly say are ++ defenders on our team? 2? Maybe 3 towards the end of the year as TK came on? And all in the OF? Playing out of position puts extra, and unnecessary, stress on the player. ...and on the pitchers.

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Except that one thing all those "hitters" were supposed to be good at was getting hits, and scoring runs.
And we didn't do that worth a crap either, despite their prior years hitting coach now being their HC.

In college, most any team is going to have respectable starters.
But the bullpens, that's where you start to see noticeable differences and deficiencies in their armor.
Working the starters harder, getting the pitch counts up, and getting to the other teams bullpen faster is just smart. Especially if you've got a team of legit hitters that can really make it hurt in those latter innings against those lesser tier pitchers.

And it's almost like that whole concept went out the door with Schloss too.
It seems like Earley would rather give the players more of a wide open green light for the sake of the players fun, rather than work the bigger picture strategy to win more games.

I learned again that baseball is the most unpredictable game there is, along
with being the most unfair at times, and the most cruel outcomes for a season
are the most devastating for players, coaches and fans.

cs69ag said:

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I learned again that baseball is the most unpredictable game there is, along
with being the most unfair at times, and the most cruel outcomes for a season
are the most devastating for players, coaches and fans.

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When a lot of the wounds are self inflicted from questionable decision making, you can't just blame the game of baseball and some bad luck.

Said another way, when you shoot yourself in the foot, you can't just blame the gun.
At some point you've gotta question the person holding it, and where it's pointed.

A lot of baseball is Not self inflicted! Plate umpire that game. Balls hit an inch
foul or fair. Bloops for hits vs line drives for outs. Players injured or not. Weather.
I do understand these variables and others tend to even out over a long season.
You could add away schedule vs. home. I do agree that this season for Aggie baseball
includes a lot of self inflicted mistakes. You still learn or relearn all the varibles in a long season,
whether its just baseball vs. self inflicted.

To put on other games/teams so that our 10 year old could see what good baseball is supposed to look like.

Have to agree on roster construction. I kept thinking we needed to recruit a high end corner outfielder and instead we decided to roll with Kash with Bergevin and Binderup at 1B. What I did not realize was just how bad the B's would be at 1st base. So our plan was to roll with terrible defenders at 1B and LF. We got lucky that Kiel stepped up and was ready to contribute in the OF. It also seemed like Henseler was going to be a below average 2B so I guess we were planning to have minus defenders all over the field.

cs69ag said:

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A lot of baseball is Not self inflicted! Plate umpire that game. Balls hit an inch
foul or fair. Bloops for hits vs line drives for outs. Players injured or not. Weather.
I do understand these variables and others tend to even out over a long season.
You could add away schedule vs. home. I do agree that this season for Aggie baseball
includes a lot of self inflicted mistakes. You still learn or relearn all the varibles in a long season,
whether its just baseball vs. self inflicted.

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Let's recap….
-Fresh off a Natty runner up finish
-Returning one of the best rosters in the country
-Returned hitting coach as HC, so he's familiar, not new
-Unanimous preseason #1
-Go 0.500 prior to conference play starting, huge WTF
-Gotta overachieve in conference to survive….in the SEC
-Swept by Dewshnozzle and t.u.
-Actually in position to maybe make postseason!
-Get swept by Mizzou, at Blue Bell
-Force a scenario to where we've gotta win SEC tourney to advance
-Lose to LSU in quarterfinal

Meanwhile or former coach goes to another school, first year, new roster, new everything….unranked to start….wins the SEC, ends top 5 in country, locked in for postseason

Wins wherever he goes, despite being a total d-bag.
I guess he's just the luckiest, and most fortunate?

Keep it up. Digging all your posts on this thread

I learned that I should not pay attention to Aggie sports and plan time around them because all I'm going to get is disappointment.

deadlift said:

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I'm now in favor of just using technology to call balls and strikes, or at least be able to challenge. I'm no longer a purist in that regard.

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There's not a robot on planet Earth that could have saved Earely, this season. He simply can't hack it as a HC at this level or in this conference.

But, im all for AI to take over the entire sports world because I've seen too much BS

We all know what happened this year. Listing it all is not learning anything new.

cs69ag said:

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We all know what happened this year. Listing it all is not learning anything new.

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Yes, but it's keeping it on the front burner to justify why a change needs to be made. We cannot tolerate OJT for Earley.

I learned that Trev gives zero ***** about he baseball program.

Ghost of Bisbee said:

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What did we learn from this season?

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That regardless of the sport, if there are high expectations for the ags coming in, prepare for crushing disappointment.

I learned we sucked

That Jeff Kent is Kaden's dad!

We learned what we already knew - Aggie decision-makers don't care about winning. They only care about keeping the money flowing.