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That caused the team to lose games like they did?

I would like to know specifics on how this coach lost games
Personally I think the injuries is what killed us not coaching….. but a lot of you think it's the coach…. So what specifically did he do to cause losses

Note: dont pull any of that football coaching comparison bs either…. FB coaches call plays and practice execution of said plays.

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Injuries. The other moment, and you could almost feel it at the time, was after 3 absolute wars against LSU and a big series win it seemed like everyone exhaled and thought it was a given that postseason would be there with Missouri coming in and the team was absolutely not mentally prepared. It's like they thought we just have to show up and we will beat those guys.

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Note: dont pull any of that football coaching comparison bs either…. FB coaches call plays and practice execution of said plays.

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I haven't read this thread, so I'm sure it's already been addressed but still feels like it deserves it again if so...

Do you not believe that Baseball coaches call plays and practice execution of said plays?? I mean, I get that you might not understand that if you're just a casual baseball fan, or if you happened to watch our team this year because it appears that we didn't.

But baseball coaches ABSOLUTELY call plays and they better damn well have practiced the execution of those plays 1000 times in practice. Those plays, and the execution of them, are the ways you get Kash home from third base with no outs in a 1 run game.

Baseball is not simply recruiting players, filling out the lineup card and then taking a nap until the game is over to see if it worked. But I could see why people might seem confused because that seems to be what happened this year.

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School in Austin has the #4 RPI. They won the SEC. Their schedule may have been light but regardless they won the SEC. Don't give a crap how light it is. They still had the most wins which is not easy. Ags got swept them didn't they.

Plus it's going to be fun the next couple of years as Schloss actually builds that program and gets his recruits. We will be watching t.u. as one of the top teams in Omaha on regular basis as Ags just hope to make Omaha once every couple of years. Hats off to an AD department that is very lost.

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Yea, no

I was right. They sucked

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Earley was in a difficult situation. He was their hitting coach/friend the last few years and didn't need to be the disciplinarian. It was probably hard to be the disciplinarian when you've been their friend and he may learn from that with different kids coming in. He made his share of mistakes for sure, but mistakes he'll learn from. And why are people clamoring for O'Connor? He was preseason number two, an experienced coach, and missed the postseason. Earley needs another year and for the naysayers, no it won't set Aggie baseball back years if there's no replacement this year.

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Great points, which is exactly why the players all wanted him, and is exactly why he shouldn't have gotten the job in the first place regardless of how good or bad of a coach he actually is.

It's the equivalent of going from a teammate to the team leader it's really hard to do. You're better off taking over another team than the one you were just a part of.

Yes, they are average. If they were good this year. We would have beat them.

In the conversations pasted in below Wicked Good Ag tried to point out that UTSA just might be a good team. And, he and the UTSA baseball team was/were dismissed out of hand by TAMU 1990. In fact, TAMU 1990 said that this UTSA team was worse than last year's UTSA team.

Imagine this current UTSA team regressing from last year's team performance to the point that they beat TAMU when we were #14 in early March; beat UT in Austin on March 18th when they were #7; and, beat UT in Austin twice in the Regional to advance to their first Super Regional, ever?!

I would love to see our team have that kind of season to season regression.

Thank you WGA for pointing out what should have been obvious to us all in late March. UTSA is a good team.

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TAMU 1990 TAMU1990In reply to W 6:17p, 5/26/25
We should have won every one of those games and the NM State and UTSA games. Those teams were not good.

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TAMU1990In reply to Wicked Good Ag 9:53p, 5/26/25AG
TAMU1990 said:
We should have won every one of those games and the NM State and UTSA games. Those teams were not good.

Wicked Good Ag said:
arent some people wanting the UTSA coach and arent they in the tourney asa two seed in Austin regional ?

TAMU 1990 said:
The field is very weak this year. It's why A&M not making the field stinks. UTSA is one of the weakest 2's and the committee also likes to pair up regionals by distance when possible. That's why HCU is being sent there to be slaughtered.

I was at the game between A&M and UTSA. We did not play well and they aren't good. Everyone likes to point to UTSA beating tu and us on a Tuesday, but UTSA playing a regional with the weekend rotation is going to be different. They aren't going to score much off of tu's weekend rotation - just like they wouldn't score much off of our weekend rotation either.

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Wicked Good AgIn reply to TAMU1990 10:49p, 5/26/25
There RPI and record say they dont suck

The fact that they beat both us and Texas says something regardless of you thinking they were not good
And i dont think the field is weak at all this year it loos like a normal year with a few surprises that we dont typically see but that doesnt mean they dont have a good year

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TAMU1990 In reply to Wicked Good Ag 9:07a, 5/27/25

Their RPi is boosted by their wins over us and Texas. I know what I saw. This UTSA team was significantly worse than last year's team. For one, their best pitcher transferred to Texas and will probably be giving them a loss.

Check their schedule - 44 wins against primarily mid majors. Their only big wins were against us and tu. They lost to Baylor, TCU, DBU, Incarnate Word, and UTA. We run ruled Incarnate Word. They lost to Tulane in the conference tourney. The field is weak.

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Lots on here have said the same but I'll repeat it. Team Culture. Earley went from being a hitting coach, a friend to the players while Schloss was the strict disciplinarian. That structure works. But Earley continued being a friend this year and the players lacked discipline, mental toughness and accountability.

It's much easier to start out being a hard ass and then backing off if you need to than it is to be a friend and then try and be a hard ass. You've already shown your soft side and the players aren't dumb, they know what you'll revert to.

It should be easier with some of the older guys who have been around Earley the longest to now be moving on. He needs to start out with discipline and accountability with the group going forward or our lack of mental toughness will continue to be our downfall.

They were worse in terms of talent. I guarantee you there aren't a lot of draft picks on that team. However, as we have seen here, you can have all of the talent on the field and it won't beat a congealed team like we saw this weekend.

We saw them here March 4th. I did see them hustling and wanting it more than we did. It was a familiar reason early in the season why we lost. Tuesday nights early in the season we were having bullpen auditions and it costs us wins. They did the fundamentals right. I'm rooting for them to beat UCLA.

The disheartening effect of what POS did to us aided by injuries. Earley needs time to restore confidence.

One thing I didn't see mentioned in the thread was Jace......

I think he's a perfect example...we know he's' good, the world knows he's good, he did not have a good year (for his standards).

Saw a stat that Jace hit ~.260 this year. It's essentially a foregone conclusion that he'll be drafted in the first round. If and when he is, .260 would be the lowest average for a first round pick....

So, why did he struggle so much this year?

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One thing I didn't see mentioned in the thread was Jace......

I think he's a perfect example...we know he's' good, the world knows he's good, he did not have a good year (for his standards).

Saw a stat that Jace hit ~.260 this year. It's essentially a foregone conclusion that he'll be drafted in the first round. If and when he is, .260 would be the lowest average for a first round pick....

So, why did he struggle so much this year?

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The tattoos

Nah, the walk up song.

He had a party at his house.

I felt like it was approach....he saw an incredible amount of breaking balls.....seemed like he got frozen up an awful lot on pitches early in counts.....and then simultaniously, I feel like he fought off a lot more pitches in previous seasons until the pitcher made a mistake

I wish I could see the stats on that.

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One thing I didn't see mentioned in the thread was Jace......

I think he's a perfect example...we know he's' good, the world knows he's good, he did not have a good year (for his standards).

Saw a stat that Jace hit ~.260 this year. It's essentially a foregone conclusion that he'll be drafted in the first round. If and when he is, .260 would be the lowest average for a first round pick....

So, why did he struggle so much this year?

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.260? What was his average over the last 15 games of conference play?

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Lots on here have said the same but I'll repeat it. Team Culture. Earley went from being a hitting coach, a friend to the players while Schloss was the strict disciplinarian. That structure works. But Earley continued being a friend this year and the players lacked discipline, mental toughness and accountability.

It's much easier to start out being a hard ass and then backing off if you need to than it is to be a friend and then try and be a hard ass. You've already shown your soft side and the players aren't dumb, they know what you'll revert to.

It should be easier with some of the older guys who have been around Earley the longest to now be moving on. He needs to start out with discipline and accountability with the group going forward or our lack of mental toughness will continue to be our downfall.

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Exactly. Years ago I attended a management seminar and we watched the old WWII movie "12 O'Clock High". Gregory Peck played a wing commander that took over a poorly disciplined unit and used it as an example of how you always want to start out too tough then adjust the other way.

I imagine that most good coaches want practices to be tougher than games. When we blew game one vs Mizzou in the 9th inning then wilted the rest of the weekend that showed a complete lack of mental toughness. It's going to be a big challenge for Early to turn this around, to say the least. I don't know how he can do it and come across as sincere to the team.

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Lots on here have said the same but I'll repeat it. Team Culture. Earley went from being a hitting coach, a friend to the players while Schloss was the strict disciplinarian. That structure works. But Earley continued being a friend this year and the players lacked discipline, mental toughness and accountability.

It's much easier to start out being a hard ass and then backing off if you need to than it is to be a friend and then try and be a hard ass. You've already shown your soft side and the players aren't dumb, they know what you'll revert to.

It should be easier with some of the older guys who have been around Earley the longest to now be moving on. He needs to start out with discipline and accountability with the group going forward or our lack of mental toughness will continue to be our downfall.

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Exactly. Years ago I attended a management seminar and we watched the old WWII movie "12 O'Clock High". Gregory Peck played a wing commander that took over a poorly disciplined unit and used it as an example of how you always want to start out too tough then adjust the other way.

I imagine that most good coaches want practices to be tougher than games. When we blew game one vs Mizzou in the 9th inning then wilted the rest of the weekend that showed a complete lack of mental toughness. It's going to be a big challenge for Early to turn this around, to say the least. I don't know how he can do it and come across as sincere to the team.

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Yeah well Alice Cooper once said "No More Mr. Nice Guy!"

There's your paradigm for success right there

In our losses, we scored less runs than our opponent.