Nobody would mind the occasional postseason brainfart if it were only just that: occasional. Vandy can dry their tears on their national championship trophy from 2 years ago (and national runners up a year ago is nothing to be ashamed of), and Ohio State at least managed to win their game yesterday and will get to keep playing tomorrow, plus they have a conference tournament championship trophy to hang their hat on this year. Nebraska has accomplished very little so far under DE. He would be the first to say so.
Nebraska has been to 2 regionals in 5 years. Before we get our panties in a bunch we need to be in regionals consistently. We do realize that both of our starting pitchers have never pitched in a major NCAA tournament right? One freshmen, one sophomore. Add it to the fact that Ryan Boldt, who really should come back next year as he didn't live up to the hype, and other key players of our offense couldn't buy a damn hit. Experience does matter in these types of situations. And for stats btw doesn't mean anything. Anything can happen in sports. Western Carolina pitching was just effective enough to get 5 double plays that took away scoring chances. They deserve credit. We didn't play our best baseball in the postseason. I think Erstad should keep the offensive play-calling, Silva deserves to stay after helping turning around a sh!tstorm of a pitching staff earlier.
^My frilly undershorts aren't bunched up all that much, but I want to call a spade a spade. Part of Nebraska's offensive improvement this year was in games against teams the caliber of Penn State, Rutgers or others who didn't find themselves in any post-season action. The Big 10 sent half the teams to the NCAA tournament that it did a year ago.
