Spartacus1987
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Don’t understand why we don’t have a college baseball forum but I thought I would put this here. Ohio State baseball used to be actually a solid program but has become such a late term abortion type bad that I haven’t watched a full game of theirs since I think 2019 (they don’t deserve my time or money). My grandpa has got to be watching from heaven in total disgust (former OSU baseball captain from the 60s).
From the little bit I do follow and what I understand their head coach now wasn’t even their first choice and they wanted to get the Vanderbilt pitching coach but that coach wanted to completely revolutionize things and OSU wasn’t going to do that. (Thanks Gene Smith for continuing to destroy OSU athletics)
Here we are now and I see that a few weeks ago OSU made the Big Ten baseball tournament for the first time in a few years and people were actually applauding this. Making a conference tournament for a conference that’s had one CWS participant I believe in the last 30ish years? That is just disgusting and despicable.
Here I am today watching Nebraska who won the Big Ten tournament play a middle of the pack SEC team in Florida and LOSE. How can anyone support this? How can anyone watch this and ever get excited? Granted I make sure to watch the College baseball tournament every year and cheer on every Big Ten team in the tournament in the hopes SOMEBODY can have a Michigan type run from 2019 but it appears highly unlikely.
I definitely rip on the Big Ten for having atrocious Football and Basketball but Big Ten baseball should honestly be discontinued with their complete lack of competitiveness on the national scale. It’s so bad that they don’t deserve to exist.
For Ohio State it really would be simple enough to hire the right guy to coach the team and keep the best players in Ohio. If Kentucky and Louisville can have respectable baseball programs then so can OSU.
From the little bit I do follow and what I understand their head coach now wasn’t even their first choice and they wanted to get the Vanderbilt pitching coach but that coach wanted to completely revolutionize things and OSU wasn’t going to do that. (Thanks Gene Smith for continuing to destroy OSU athletics)
Here we are now and I see that a few weeks ago OSU made the Big Ten baseball tournament for the first time in a few years and people were actually applauding this. Making a conference tournament for a conference that’s had one CWS participant I believe in the last 30ish years? That is just disgusting and despicable.
Here I am today watching Nebraska who won the Big Ten tournament play a middle of the pack SEC team in Florida and LOSE. How can anyone support this? How can anyone watch this and ever get excited? Granted I make sure to watch the College baseball tournament every year and cheer on every Big Ten team in the tournament in the hopes SOMEBODY can have a Michigan type run from 2019 but it appears highly unlikely.
I definitely rip on the Big Ten for having atrocious Football and Basketball but Big Ten baseball should honestly be discontinued with their complete lack of competitiveness on the national scale. It’s so bad that they don’t deserve to exist.
For Ohio State it really would be simple enough to hire the right guy to coach the team and keep the best players in Ohio. If Kentucky and Louisville can have respectable baseball programs then so can OSU.