With Opening Day close, I'm getting the baseball fever. So I've been looking at our stats the past few years and am blown away at the lack of wins and progress the program has had. Why do we struggle so much? This is isn't a rant on Prado or a reason to get rid of him...I'm just lost as to why a school like FGCU or even other BE schools can beat us down year in and year out. Each year we seem to be around .500, what is it going to take for us to get over the hump?
If Taggert can come in and make a call to protect the local talent, why hasn't the baseball program done the same? I played ball in the area so I know the talent level is plentiful, but it just seems like each year we struggle to get the right kids. I know baseball is tough with other schools in the area (other big schools, JC's and D2 and such) and MLB, but I just can't for the life of me believe that we don't have a BE baseball title or even a post season birth. Our softball team is making progress, yet baseball just seems to do the same thing each year. I know when I was playing Prado was doing a good job at UT getting talent to come and play and they were winning, what has changed? Is it the lack of committment by the Athletic Program and DW? Since, I'm not local anymore do kids just not want to play there?
My inquiring mind wants to know?