I've noticed maybe 2 games televised on FSN this year. The Big 12 tv deal across all sports sucks.
Did you ever stop and wonder why, say, Zach Herr would want to sign a contract despite being a really late pick? Answer: to flee Anderson's iron fist. It's not enough to just say the draft destroyed us, how about looking at why everybody wanted to leave? Why is it that David Stewart and Jed Hanson transferred despite showing great potential in the few opportunities that Anderson gave them? Oh I suppose after yesterday's wild pitch-fest, I'm dreaming if I think having another catcher around might have helped. And of course we won't need a new right fielder in 2011, so Stewart's no great loss, right? What happens when Mariot, Yost, Ryan Hughes and a number of other players sign contracts this year? Do we reboot the draft excuse? This isn't football where freshmen and sophomores have to hit the weight room and gain 50 pounds. Many teams are playing with just as much, or more, younger players, and that's just in the top 25. Nebraska had as much senior experience in Bailey, Belfonte, Farst and Bubak to go with pretty good juniors on the pitching staff. I imagine we're looking at moderate improvement next season at best, and the best we can do is claim that we're a northern school and thus can't compete :wacko:
What part of regional don't you understand? As in, when it's not nebraska, it's not going to be on here. If you look at any of the non-FSNMidwest FSN channels, you will see a decent amount of college baseball, i watched it. Herr wasn't good. And wild pitch-fest? You realize that a wild PITCH is just that, NOT THE CATCHERS FAULT. That, sir, would be what the scoring "passed ball" is for. And Hanson was 4 for 9, but he was NOT a good defensive catcher, so I don't know how him behind the plate would help wild pitches.... Mariot could potentially go and sign a contract, it happens. I don't see Yost going anywhere. Our pitching staff is still young and improving. And freshman are playing in baseball just as much as they are in football. Stewart hit .286, that's good?
I know what regional means, and that's part of the horrible Big 12 TV deal, if your provider only gives you one FSN channel, you're hosed. I could have watched several games on the Big 10 network, but since Nebraska has not yet joined that conference, I didn't bother. I don't recall the last time ESPN carried a regular season Big 12 game, but I saw a lot of SEC games on.
Sure, Zach Herr wasn't any good. Neither are many of the other younger pitchers brought in since Childress left. All have been prone to give up walks, hit batters, and just generally have ERAs so high they'd make your nose bleed. Because they're not being coached very well at any point. Part of that's Newman's responsibility, then again he's the 2nd pitching coach hired by Anderson, and the staff ERA has sucked harder with every new hire (save for being carried by Johnny Dorn and, for a while anyway, Thad Weber in '08). So either Anderson can't hire decent assistants, or it's true what they say about him being a micromanaging freak. Or a little bit of both.
Did you see the wild pitches? These one's ricocheted not all that far from whoever was catching, it's not impossible for a catcher to smother a bad pitch, so yes, senor caps lock, SOMETIMES THE CATCHER CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. But you may be right, Hanson might not have been any better at defense, however he had a pretty good year going here at UNO (ended with an injury), so I'm still not entirely convinced. Same thing goes for Stewart, scouts were bullish on his upside potential, he hit 3 home runs in two games to start his season at Grayson County college down in TX after leaving here, then got hit by a pitch and broke his hand or something, ended his season. I suppose Anderson knew that was going to happen so he sent him off. Of course, those two guys are the least of Anderson's problems, the dude is sabotaging the program.
