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I will give you that point though I'd have bunted him over. The bad of the inning was Gabe not staying on 3rd. Score would still be the same but Gabe should know better.

Top of 3 Pitch Count: NU 29 32 PU 27 Score: NU 2 PU 0 Evans Out at 1st - 1 away Burnham swinging k - 2 away Anderson grounder out at 1 - middle of 3 up 2-0

So, listening to the game and watching live stats... Top of 2 (pitch count NU 17 16, PU 7) Not sure why the boys think they need to swing at every first pitch.. they only made the purdue pitcher throw 7 pitches.. To me it's infuriating!! Now, top of 2, little patience at the plate and they start with a 4 pitch, leadoff walk. Much better!! Now bunt him to 2nd. Nope, fly out and no advancement. Rocket through the infield by Fisher.. Runners on the corners - 1 out bunt squeeze attempt, gabe tagged at home.. now runners on 1st and 2nd - 2 outs base hit, 2 runs scored - double by Columbus - still 2 outs Mosely flys out

@Xmas32 - I don't worry about run production replacement as much as I worry about arm depth. In honesty, I don't think we have a Friday starter on the team. Both Olson and Jace allow umpires and sadly bad weather (especially wind) to affect their games. Friday starters can't allow that to happen as it places too much stress on the pen. Off season recruitment (imo) needs to focus first on pitching. Depth yes of course but first a true Friday starter. When Olson and Kamiska are on they are AWESOME.. but.. when they lose their heads it's over. So a tough minded, mid to up 90's with an out pitch (slider) and change is huge. The pitching loses after this season are even more alarming. Shay, Buntz, Perry, Ornelas, Garza .. gone!! << That's virtually our weekend bench and that's scary!! So, Production.. not worried about. Pitching, terrified!!

Bracket 1: (huskers bracket) yes chance to win 2 games against projected post season qualifiers, so we they start against Rutgers (the 5 seed) if we they win and Maryland wins, we they next compete against Maryland. So, two games against projected field of 64 qualifiers in their bracket. Bracket 2: Cross Bracket Play: (Bracket 2's winner of the losers bracket) If they win their first 2 next they will likely play either Iowa or Indiana (both projected field of 64 teams) in the cross bracket match up. (winners of the loser brackets cross over and play the winner or the winners bracket. (at least in 2022 that was the case). Assuming Nebraska doesn't lose and plays the highest possible seated opponents. Their tourney play would be: opponent 1 (5) Rutgers, opponent 2 (1) Maryland, opponent 3 (3) Iowa (cross bracket), opponent 4 (2) Indiana (championship) The 4 teams projected to qualify for post season play. So, my point is, they can play themselves into consideration but they must reach the championship game. (consideration does not mean invite, though invite may come pending other conference championships) Best scenario for post season is winning the automatic bid. (smh would I be shocked if this team showed that kind of focus) edit: scratched the "we" for "they" and added bracket play.

If the season ended today they'd be the 4 seed. I think that is perfect because they'd get to "prove" to the committee they deserve a post season invite by having to first beat the 1 seed (already in the field of 64) then also win against either the 2 seed (also in the field already) or the 3 seed (redemption for an absolute lackluster affair 3 weeks ago). Hopefully the alignment doesn't change and the sker's are the 4 seed. Still have 2 more games to play and this team doesn't seem to be able to stay focused on anything for any duration so... fingers crossed that lady luck is on our side. edit: also, their first game would be against the 4th big ten team that D1 shows as a qualifier. So, in simple terms.. they'd play all teams projected in the field

Honestly, I can see us losing 2 here. Hope I'm wrong but I won't be at all surprised if/when we limp away going 1-2 against a team with an RPI outside of the top 200. Please let me be wrong. Hoping for a sweep and a Northwestern series win. edit: while i'm at it let me give the finger to the B1G network. They could be showing 1 game of every series (it is the last weekend after all) but nope, if you want to see the skers.. pony up the cash. Well here's what I say to the B1G (middle finger held high)!!!

This is exactly why we as fans should be demanding more from the staffs and administration. There is simply "NO" excuse for this. Even if you flip those numbers that equates to 3 more wins but in honesty we should have had at worst a 7-2 record. Bolt was clueless going into this season as evident by the first weekends performance. Then, with the opportunity to win 3 (2 against the SEC) again he (Bolt) stubbornly left a pitcher in that should have been pulled. (How many times have we seen this?) Finally, when the season is lost and there's zero chance at actually reaching post season (without winning the auto bid) Bolt decides to play to win. It makes zero sense and personally, I'm tired of seeing it. Winning the B1G conference should be expected from this program EVERY year. Sadly if the reader opens this link (College Raptor) they likely will be shocked in learning Nebraska isn't in the top half of the B1G in baseball revenue. Look, the Nebraska Men's athletics are dismal at best and as fans it should really become unacceptable to us. From wiki I'll post Nebraska's baseball success since joining the B1G conference and anyone who in anyway thinks their conference performance is even marginally acceptable is not at all in my realm of belief. When are we going to have a revenue men's sport that we can actually and proudly stand behind and support? Certainly we've been competitive to a degree but in every case except 2021 we're a 1 and done post season team. As a fan, this is just not a success rate that I can really get behind and proudly support.

So below is the current LIVE rpi for the 2023 D1 Baseball. Nebraska sitting out of the top 100 and the last opponent is out of the top 200. Who here thinks Nebraska has even a remote chance at earning an invite to the post season? If they don't win the B1G tourney, they don't deserve a post season appearance. This year is every bit as big of a disappointment as last year was. This staff hasn't performed any better than Frost's staff has. Middle of the pack in the B1G conference, a conference mind you that shows how little emphasis it puts on promoting baseball and they are still only mediocre. Bolt is not the manager/coach the fans should want. This program has now suffered through 2 years of lackluster, pathetic, disgusting displays of team chemistry, manager abilities, development abilities and effort. Bolt won with Darin's recruits and has done nothing with 2 all american's and several other all conference players. Are you kidding me? What excuse will be forthright at seasons end? Bolt needs to be treated the way Coach Frost and Coach Hoiberg were. Next season it's post season play or your done!! Tired of watching mediocrity and most assuredly, tired of supporting it!!!

Washington will gain the Oregon Televisions and Stanford or Cal gain 7x more federal grant funding than Oregon. Washington nearly doubles Oregon's televisions as well. Populations respectively 7.78 mil and 4.3 mil so there's that. I'd like to see Washington join. I'd also like to see either Cal or Stanford. (Heck, we all like to hug our trees on occasion, yes?) The only argument for Oregon is USC and UCLA need locals.. Sure Oregon has had athletic success of late but in the B1G do you think they're success will continue especially knowing the bias officiating in B1G? Mav, you're a journalist, what are the federal grant fund comparisons for 2022 between Washington/Cal/Stanford/Oregon?

I can see Washington getting an invite but not Oregon. Especially with Virginia & North Carolina waiving their hands as they jump and scream "hey, over here"... both are huge federal grant funded schools where as Oregon is like 150th (or worse) and there's more television revenue in the Virginia and N. Carolina markets as well.

@Xmas32 If memory serves I believe it was an internal issue that was never revealed. Bolt was using him as a bullpen guy and intending to use him as a closer. My assumption was that Bragg didn't agree so he transferred.

Call me shocked but I guess when managers start playing baseball instead of letting the kids run the asylum then results like this happen. Wonder if Trev might have said something to Bolt because Bolt refused to play any type of winning ball outside of "swing away boys" all year long. I hope Bolt is feeling the heat. I hope he's ashamed of the teams performances the last two years and mostly, I hope Trev told him to turn this around now or don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you!!! They actually showed they can bunt.. Shocked They actually showed they can manufacture a run.. Shocked They actually showed they don't need dingers to have fun.. Shocked Bolt actually made a coaching decision that resulted in scoring.. Shocked As usual however, little late to actually start coaching. Huskers will go 1-2 in the tourney and the season will end. They won't make the post season.

all good points. Thought I'd read Olson was not throwing tonight.

Likely a rainout today resulting in a Doubleheader tomorrow. Sadly, puts more pressure on winning game 1. Jace in game 1 maybe? Then a bullpen game 2 and Sunday?

I get where you thought I was saying that PSU would sweep them. I think they win the saturday game but the other two, those are toss ups. My statement you quoted is confusing. I think they end the season 3-3 at best (win 2 this weekend, 1 next weekend) though I won't be surprised if they go 2-4 with 1 win only at home and at purdue. 12-12 to end the season. exactly where they were predicted to be. Another mediocre season hurray hurrah!! At least its not a losing season, right? A season that began with so much hope.

The "if" you left out is "if" they earn a spot. Watch, watch this team lose both remaining series not because they're not the better team but rather because they don't care. The effort won't be there this weekend and they're on the road next weekend. Maybe they'll play with a little more emotion against Purdue considering the lack of sportsmanship displayed to the huskers by Purdue last year but the lack of leadership displayed lately makes me think we win only the saturday game against purdue and finally the season of hope ends.

Lol, maybe or maybe our reality of being a supportive fan base for a stinky athletic program truth is to painful to accept. You can paint poop with all the perfume you want but in the end it remains stinky poop.

All bets are off??? This team hasn't shown they have the desire to win. As for fans showing up, I wouldn't bet on that. (Especially if our first game is early) Truthfully, why should we? Why should we support a team that doesn't want to win? Why pay inflated costs at the ballpark, inflated ticket costs, have you purchased a beer at a sporting event lately? Gas prices sky rocketing, groceries over priced, inflation out of control and nearly 75% of the nation living paycheck to paycheck. Why should any of us support these entitled, self centered, selfish, privileged pretenders? It's not the coaches that are the issue. Pelini won here and was fired. Erstad won here and mostly left because the administration or lack there of.. Danny Nee won here, also fired? Our fans deserve more. They deserve more from the players, from the staffs, from the athletic department personnel and the university pencilneck board of regents. That won't happen until the fan base stops participating. This athletic department has, is and continues being the laughing stock of power 5 schools. I mean heck we've to this date never won a March madness game. We can't qualify for a post season bowl game when 84% of all teams do. This school has the luxury of a never ending cash cow fan base and yet for reasons that are a mockery this university can't field a single post season team. This university should be ashamed to call themselves competitive because they know and every school they face off against knows they aren't.

Yep, after these last 3 weeks of ho hum play I decided to take back the 3 days I was taking off for the B1G tourney. The team doesn't care to represent the state and fans so I decided I don't care to represent them. Won't even watch it on tube.. Yep, butt hurt again, not sure why I care so much. Wish I didn't but I do. Maybe fishing is the answer or more golf. At least those don't raise my blood pressure by 20 points. Guys/Gals ... enjoy the series loss this weekend and next. Then the season is over and Bolt and Company can give us excuses for such lackluster performance. Question is, will anyone care? Even the fanbase is showing their displeasure. Should have/could have had multiple sellouts, instead Trev and company have to come up with gimmicks to try and convince fans to show. This is Nebraska men's athletics now. How many times will donors have to step up and buy unsold tickets this coming season to continue the sellout streak? O/U guess is 4

We are at best only the 2nd best team in nebraska At best we are the 5th best team in the B1G At best we have 2 players that seem to care.. Bolt can't manage Staff can't develop Players have zero energy and absolute zero effort Is it football season yet? (yes, likely another crap season of another Men's sport) At this rate the B1G schools have every right to tell their administrators to kick Nebraska to the curb. They can't make a bowl game They can't make post season play in basketball Outside of wrestling their other men's programs are a laughing stock and every school in the B1G knows Nebraska is a certain dub!! Worst Men's athletic department in the B1G (Rutgers & Maryland are better, how sad is that?) Thanks Bolt and company (players & staff) for taking our money and giving nothing in return. NOTHING!!!

Shame, absolute disgusting shame No personal accountability No personal pride No team chemistry No effort No want. Bolt needs to change something or he needs to go. We don't hit and run. We don't bunt. We can't steal bases Honestly, it appears to me the players are intentionally tanking. In all my years of watching husker sports this is by far the worst display of any Husker program. Much worse than even Mike Riley's last team or Frost's final 2 teams.

This kind of surprised me.. I was certain he'd remain as I felt he was going to see extended playing time. Not sure why he felt he should move on. This darn transfer portal, I can't decide where I stand on it. I mean heck yes I like it when the sker's benefit but dang nabbit... it stinks when it negatively effects our programs!!!!

Home Runs are great but good starting pitching, a deep bullpen, the ability to advance runners, steal bases, hit with runners in scoring position, those are the things that win ball games. Hit 100 home runs and do nothing else good and see where that gets you. Think it's time for bolt to either replace coaches or move on. This teams performances are at best pathetic.