Where is our pitching?
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Hey, at least we had a SportsCenter top 10 play with Masel pulling one back.
Same problem we've had for several seasons now. Too many walks and pitching from behind in the count. Don't know if it's because they simply don't have good control or are trying to be too precise by painting the corners and batters showing more restraint. I suspect the former but haven't seen them in person.
Haha only from behind the plate to a sure handed infielder at second base. We need a Rennie Martin or Tim Stauffer.
Absolutely Rodger had lot of movement on his fastball and needed a mask on when warming him up.
We had a good pitcher when I was a freshman, I think his name was Balderson? Does anyone remember him?
Dick Balderson. Went on to have career in upper management in major league baseball. K C Royals
Dick Balderson went on to become General Manager of Seattle in the big leagues.
17-5 over Norfolk State today on what must have been a beautiful day at Pitt Field, sunny and 70. We scored 14 runs in the third inning. At W & M this weekend.
So we went 1-2 v Tribe this weekend.L,W,L.Pretty disappointing outcome against a mediocre CAA team.Do they even recruit?
I've heard we have maybe 4-5 scholarships of an NCAA-max 11.7. Not sure if this is true, but if so it explains a lot.
There is no reason for a school with our resources not to offer the maximum number of scholarships in every sport we sponsor. If we are going to play D1 sports, let's act like it.
Just add volleyball, which has 12 or 14 scholarships and is a sport played by 10 other members of the Atlantic-10 and almost everyone else in the country (but not in Keller Hall, obviously
). There's a 5% fudge factor in proportionality. Any potential Title IX problems solved.We can easily afford it. And volleyball players are generally high academic achievers, so we wouldn't be compromising our "academic integrity" by adding more athletes.
When it comes to athletics, excuses come way too easy for our administration. I would really like to see that change under the new president. Cornell sponsors 35 (yes, 35) men's and women's sports and doesn't seem to have a problem with "academic integrity."
Just add volleyball, which has 12 or 14 scholarships and is a sport played by 10 other members of the Atlantic-10 and almost everyone else in the country (but not in Keller Hall, obviously
We can easily afford it. And volleyball players are generally high academic achievers, so we wouldn't be compromising our "academic integrity" by adding more athletes.
When it comes to athletics, excuses come way too easy for our administration. I would really like to see that change under the new president. Cornell sponsors 35 (yes, 35) men's and women's sports and doesn't seem to have a problem with "academic integrity."
”...We can easily afford it...”
Arrange a lunch with Hale.Bring along your magic wand and happy dust and blueprint for explaining additional losses for non revenue sports on the heels of the pandemic.Make sure the Cornell analogy is explained away with their 15,000 undergraduates and 9,000 postgraduates and a $7.5 billion endowment underpinning.
Hale likes to have lunch at inexpensive deli’s that serve free dill pickles.Make sure you pick up the tab.
Volleyball is definitely extremely popular...over 95% of D-I schools sponsor it, so we're in a tiny minority. Robins Center court seems about the only suitable spot for a team to play, which isn't ideal.
Women currently make up 55% of student body, 53% of athlete participation slots, and 45% of athletic scholarship dollars, so we're already pushing the limits there.
On the men's side, football, basketball, and lax are fully funded, right? XC has no scholarships, while golf and tennis only have 1 or 2 each I think, but they're only allowed a handful each anyway. I thought baseball was a bit higher than the 4-5 you quoted, but I really don't know.
Women currently make up 55% of student body, 53% of athlete participation slots, and 45% of athletic scholarship dollars, so we're already pushing the limits there.
On the men's side, football, basketball, and lax are fully funded, right? XC has no scholarships, while golf and tennis only have 1 or 2 each I think, but they're only allowed a handful each anyway. I thought baseball was a bit higher than the 4-5 you quoted, but I really don't know.
If Cornell has a $7.5 billion endowment for 24,000 students, our $2.5 billion for about 1/6 that number of students looks pretty favorable, by a 2-1 ratio (1/3 the endowment, but only 1/6 of the students).
Cornell also has a much larger physical plant to maintain, both in Ithaca and with its branch campuses in New York City, other sites around New York State, and Qatar. Cornell is also the NYS land-grant school so it has large agricultural lands to maintain and operate.
Yet somehow it gets by financially.
The pandemic will not be here forever. I'd rather have us doing something during it so we're moving forward when it ends, instead of using the pandemic as an excuse for doing nothing for the past 12 months.
Money sitting in an endowment is great. Money actually out there in the world, working to benefit people, is even greater.
I'll stand by my statement: When it comes to athletics, excuses come way too easy for our administration.
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Spiders sweep Towson. Series concludes at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Had lunch with Hale in X lot today, overlooking right field. I brought a couple of Spider folding chairs, a table and a couple subs from Bernie's for both of us, with some pickles on the side. Added a sixer of Boh I picked up at the 7-Eleven next door, and some red solo cups so the campus 5-0 wouldn't hassle us.
It was outstanding. He was very appreciative, and not upset at all when he got a dab of sauce on his tie and weejuns. He said to expect a volleyball program by 2023.
Had lunch with Hale in X lot today, overlooking right field. I brought a couple of Spider folding chairs, a table and a couple subs from Bernie's for both of us, with some pickles on the side. Added a sixer of Boh I picked up at the 7-Eleven next door, and some red solo cups so the campus 5-0 wouldn't hassle us.
It was outstanding. He was very appreciative, and not upset at all when he got a dab of sauce on his tie and weejuns. He said to expect a volleyball program by 2023.
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Thank you. I was checking the athletic department’s roster and couldn’t find anyone named Hale. Obviously,
I didn’t go high enough in the schools hierarchy.
I was watching the stream of today's game and wondered, "What is that huge building behind left field, I don't remember that!" Then, duh, a moment of clarity, the game is at Towson, not at Pitt Field.
BTW we are winning 8-5, T5, looking for a weekend sweep.
BTW we are winning 8-5, T5, looking for a weekend sweep.
Spiders roll to the sweep, 14-6. Coincidentally, that's also their current record.
Somebody get Matt Smith to fire off some more angry tweets at SLU baseball.
After the basketball fiasco I think this proves one thing- St. Louis is a dirty team.LOL
Rest of the series has been canceled, and confirmed that it was our issue. Wasted trip to the midwest...our only road trip of substantial distance on the season.
Next 12 games are at home and then our last two series are at GW and Mason.
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Baseball's Weekend Series at Saint Louis Canceled - University of Richmond Athletics
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The University of Richmond baseball's four-game Atlantic 10 Conference series at Saint Louis has been cancelled in response to the results from
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