No, Bolt doesn’t need to be treated like Frost and (most likely) Hoiberg. Bolt has shown improvement over last year in defense and hitting. the only thing that’s been consistently letting us down is pitching, and that’s because Bolt made what he likely thought was a safe hire with Jeff Christy, only to be let down by him three years going.
All Bolt has to do is find/replace Christy with a good pitching coach (preferably one that played the position), and we have the rest of the pieces to right the ship and get Nebraska back on top in the B1G.
Now, the question is, does Trev even care about what happens with sports not named football enough to ask Bolt to make that change? Once upon a time, Nebraska was one of ~12 programs in the nation that made a net profit off of the baseball program when it was going extremely well…so it should be on his radar that if things get turned around, this program will be (at worst) revenue neutral and possibly help pay for other programs.
Look—I’m pissed that our pitching was so suspect that we lost to to a card game school, a crappy ‘Thumper school, and programs from states that are some of the worst in the Union. But look at things holistically, and there’s improvement…just not as much as we want. Fix/replace what is broken and keep improving…with a goal of having three quality starters again and can help ensure there are no more midweek drops.