We fired our softball coach, Jay Miller, today....
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Yet our team would suck donkey balls. Not that I follow softball, but just that I see the stories about how bad they are when I go to mstateathletics.com. It's either a case of the US having better softball players than anyone else in the world so it didn't matter who coached them or that he was crooming and spent most of his time focused on the national team.<div>
</div><div>All in all, this arrangement was probably a leftover relic from the LT era.</div>
</div><div>All in all, this arrangement was probably a leftover relic from the LT era.</div>
It boils down to having truly awful facilities (stadium wise, the softball IPF is OK), limited budget, and being in a state where fast pitch softball is still a fairly new sport.
That's how he got that gig.
I'm indifferent about this - we certainly had a problem this year, but he's had some good players in the past. That's an issue. We've had National Player of the Year Candidates, first round draft picks, etc. but they are surrounded by other players that couldn't sit the bench on other SEC teams. We've never had a good team in my opinion. Solid teams with a couple great players, yes. But never a good team - it caught up with him this year - we didn't have the great player we normally do and we had a losing record. The same thing happened to him at Missouri. We hired a just fired coach from Missouri. He has a lot of contacts and will land, and I am confident that Stricklin will hire a great coach.
Back when the SEC was average in softball, that was fine - now the SEC is the top conference in America (4 teams in the Top 10, 7 teams in Top 25), the inefficiencies are being highlighted.
Guys, the thing to look at here is that our athletic leadership wants to win at everything. Women's tennis better turn it around.
I'm indifferent about this - we certainly had a problem this year, but he's had some good players in the past. That's an issue. We've had National Player of the Year Candidates, first round draft picks, etc. but they are surrounded by other players that couldn't sit the bench on other SEC teams. We've never had a good team in my opinion. Solid teams with a couple great players, yes. But never a good team - it caught up with him this year - we didn't have the great player we normally do and we had a losing record. The same thing happened to him at Missouri. We hired a just fired coach from Missouri. He has a lot of contacts and will land, and I am confident that Stricklin will hire a great coach.
Back when the SEC was average in softball, that was fine - now the SEC is the top conference in America (4 teams in the Top 10, 7 teams in Top 25), the inefficiencies are being highlighted.
Guys, the thing to look at here is that our athletic leadership wants to win at everything. Women's tennis better turn it around.
that this article is suddenly missing from MStateathletics.com.<div>
</div><div>http://www.mstateathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=16800&ATCLID=205152007</div><div>
</div><div>Had to google to find it.</div><div>
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</div><div>http://www.mstateathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=16800&ATCLID=205152007</div><div>
</div><div>Had to google to find it.</div><div>
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I wish they would repeal Title IX and get rid of some of these money-sucking women's sports. Use the money to start a varsity soccer team or make the Ice Dawgs an official university squad. It would give me another two teams to care about.<div>
</div><div>Sorry feminists. I love women, but not your sports.</div>
</div><div>Sorry feminists. I love women, but not your sports.</div>
as wanting to see MSU doing well in all that we do. Is it a pipedream? Likely the answer is yes, but I don't see why I shouldn't support them and be slightly interested at minimum either. They still put on the jersey regardless and work their *** off like any other student athlete. And as for money sucking women's sports, a university is a school, as are high schools... would you have high schools eliminate women's sports as well because they don't turn a profit?
if we're going to play, and we are, might as well try to win. Men, with the Mutt exception noted, tend to change their mind about women's sports about the same time they have a little girl. I know I did.
I take my daughter to some of the softball games and it's not a bad experience at all. It would be a lot better though if we had a quality ballpark.
I take my daughter to some of the softball games and it's not a bad experience at all. It would be a lot better though if we had a quality ballpark.
Hey, if you want to spend your time rooting for the softball team, by all means, do it. I don't doubt that most of these women work their butts off for their teammates. But, when I read articles about how colleges like UCF put out sham women's teams filled with "players" that haven't seen the field or the court, I wonder how the money could be better spent on sports that people care about. I'd guarantee you that a soccer team or the Ice Dawgs would put more butts in the stands than women's basketball, volleyball or softball.<div>
</div><div>I'd also bet that our administration feels the same way, as we've been a bottom feeder in women's sports since they began offering them in the 1970s. Have we won a single SEC title in any team women's sport?
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</div><div>I'd also bet that our administration feels the same way, as we've been a bottom feeder in women's sports since they began offering them in the 1970s. Have we won a single SEC title in any team women's sport?
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Maybe if these girls would stick to becoming good wives, we wouldn't have New Hope teachers nailing high School boys.