Rob Childress excited for challenge ahead in Morgantown Regional

Key notes from Rob Childress interview

• You never take it for granted. It's awful hard to get there and be one of the 64 teams playing to get to Omaha and win a national championship.
   
• You feel like everybody else does who follows our program that we were going to Lubbock or Stillwater. When you don't get announced there, you start thinking, "where are we going now?" I think it's ironic we opened with Fordham and they're one of the teams in our regional.
   
• The road to Omaha is always crowded with 270 teams and it has thinned out to 64. You're five wins from Omaha and five more away from a National Championship. You can only have one bad day a weekend and if you have two, you're season is over.
   
• Duke lost a big left handed pitcher in March that was a Team USA guy. They've had to put their staff back together. Duke has been a decent hitting team over the last few years. They're a very balanced lineup. Quite a few left-handed hitters and I think that sets up well for us especially with Doxakis on the mound.
   
• Duke's bullpen is good. We've had that same recipe all year long when we get on the mound. We have the chance to suffocate you on the mound.
   
• Randy Mazey does a great job running the West Virginia offense. How you neutralize that is the get the leadoff hitter off and slow them down. Fordham is in the same boat. Those are two teams that you gotta slow down by dominating the battle first.
   
• To be honest, I haven't looked past Duke. They're my whole focus. We have Friday night and Saturday morning to prepare for the team we play next.
   
• Kevin Leighton does a great job. Getting to know Fordham, he coaches with a chip on his shoulder and his team plays with a chip on their shoulder. I told him at the end of the series that I felt like his pitching was really good. We've texted back and forth and he made the comment that his pitching ended up being as good as I thought it would be.
   
• It is frustrating to do what we did against Arkansas from an offensive standpoint in a three game series, then score eight runs against Florida and then the well completely goes dry. We missed giant opportunities against Georgia. Just like that, the futility is on. We do the same thing the next day against Ole Miss. Can't grab and early lead or cash in. Really frustrating. For me, it's all about the blessing of being able to get home and press the reset button. We're fresh and ready to go.
   
• We've gotta get back to scoring runs. We've had a run of bad luck. No one like excuses, but we Lost Hunter Coleman for ten weeks and Will Frizzell is battling chronic knee problems. Zach DeLoach had a great start to his career here but has fallen on hard times. But he's working hard to get back to it. We're working everyday to get back to it.
   
• I've communicated with those guys and it's a blessing that Christian Roa and Chris Weber have been magnificent. We're going to go into a game three looking at the best matchup and if we have to use Weber in game two, we will. We're going to do what gives us the best chance to win.
   
• Catching a spark offensively and getting some timely hits. If we do that, we're going to have a shot to win the regional.