LSU was down to the Delta Devils in the bottom of the 8th...
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<span class="byline">Posted Mar. 4, 2009 11:35 am by Aaron Fitt</span>
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<span class="content">Before we get to today's mailbag, let's acknowlegde a few upsets from Tuesday's action. The most surprising score of the day was Rhode Island's 3-0 upset at Miami behind eight scoreless, three-hit innings from junior righthander Eric Smith. A URI press release hailed the victory as "arguably the biggest victory in the program's history."</span></p>
<span class="content">"This is so wild right now," Smith said afterward, according to the release. "It's like I can't even speak. The guys are all so pumped; it's awesome. I'm still catching my breath."</span></p>
<span class="content">Miami was shut out for the first time since 2004. The Hurricanes had one baserunner reach third base, in the first inning, and that was it.</span></p>
<span class="content">"That pitcher just stuffed us," Miami coach Jim Morris said of Smith this afternoon. "It wasn't like he was a thumber-I think he's going to pitch in the big leagues. He was 6-foot-3, throwing 88-92 with good sink, and a good hard breaking ball. He threw strikes, pitched inside, had a 1.1(-second) release time, and ate our lunch. We didn't hit the ball hard off him, at all. What a crazy game. We faced pretty good pitching at Florida this weekend and hit the ball pretty hard, and this guy just ate our lunch for eight innings. He ate everybody's lunch from one through nine."<span id="more-938"></span></span></p>
<span class="byline">Filed under: Around The Nation, Mailbag</span>
<span class="content">Before we get to today's mailbag, let's acknowlegde a few upsets from Tuesday's action. The most surprising score of the day was Rhode Island's 3-0 upset at Miami behind eight scoreless, three-hit innings from junior righthander Eric Smith. A URI press release hailed the victory as "arguably the biggest victory in the program's history."</span></p>
<span class="content">"This is so wild right now," Smith said afterward, according to the release. "It's like I can't even speak. The guys are all so pumped; it's awesome. I'm still catching my breath."</span></p>
<span class="content">Miami was shut out for the first time since 2004. The Hurricanes had one baserunner reach third base, in the first inning, and that was it.</span></p>
<span class="content">"That pitcher just stuffed us," Miami coach Jim Morris said of Smith this afternoon. "It wasn't like he was a thumber-I think he's going to pitch in the big leagues. He was 6-foot-3, throwing 88-92 with good sink, and a good hard breaking ball. He threw strikes, pitched inside, had a 1.1(-second) release time, and ate our lunch. We didn't hit the ball hard off him, at all. What a crazy game. We faced pretty good pitching at Florida this weekend and hit the ball pretty hard, and this guy just ate our lunch for eight innings. He ate everybody's lunch from one through nine."<span id="more-938"></span></span></p>
with that program in my opinion. They are one of the top teams in the SWAC, and they may very well be better than your typical SWAC team. He has been there for awhile and he has that program going.
I remember back in the day Jackson State had some good teams with Oil Can Boys, and more recently Southern had a really good team, that I think beat LSU with Rickie Weeks.
Jacksondevildog can probably givea better opinion of Shanks than I can, though.
I remember back in the day Jackson State had some good teams with Oil Can Boys, and more recently Southern had a really good team, that I think beat LSU with Rickie Weeks.
Jacksondevildog can probably givea better opinion of Shanks than I can, though.
Shanks does, I think, the most with the least of any program in college baseball. Itta Bena ain't exactly San Diego, but he gets mostly juco kids from all over the U.S. to come there. This year they have a kid named "Willie Mays". No ****. This kid was signed at Kentucky by Cohen and something happened that made him redshirt (injuries, etc., not sure). Cohen called Shanks and got the kid down at Valley. Shanks and Cohen know each other well and he though enough of Doug and the program to send Mays down to Valley. It's a SWAC school, but the program is run more like a typical division 1 program and not some intramural program.
when he led the 96'er Connie Mack program in Jackson during the 80's...He is a very good baseball man with excellent management skills...I really enjoyed that time and we had some talented players in that program- Tracy Echols, Pete Young, Damon Ianelli, Derek Topic, Jim Davenport, Todd Mardis just to name a few
If you think LT made it hard for our athletic programs, especially Stansbury, you should see how Shanks is treated by the athletic department. The women's catfishing team would get the necessary funds before he would.
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