Texas hitting coach

Pierce's track record is strong enough that I can assume that the players are being coached and instructed correctly. This team's offense is good 90% of the time but they have not done great against elite pitching all year.

No offense to anyone on this thread, but there is a reason these guys lead power 5 programs and we don't.

This is the same as when guys that day trade talk trash about billionaire hedge fund managers.
 
longhorn70 said:
I know who he is. I said I didn’t know what was said in the dugout. 21 strikeouts should not have happened. To much talent for that to happen.
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longhorn70 said:
I know who he is. I said I didn’t know what was said in the dugout. 21 strikeouts should not have happened. To much talent for that to happen.
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And I said I agreed and that we needed to make adjustments.his spin rate on the 4 seamer ate our lunch.The way you worded the title made it seem to me you were questioning Tulo's ability/knowledge and it cracked me up.

Remember what Yogi said...90% of hitting is mental--the other half is physical..:)
I think we had and a BUNCH of guys thinikng backwards" don't strike out like we did game 1" before they got in the box vs focusing on a positive plate approach You can't coach confidence calm and pitch/plate adjustment during an AB as you know.

Also you can't steal 1st and when NO ONE is on small ball goes out the window


For perspective, Tennessee has the same BA as us ( with a lot more HR's due in part due to their park) and they HAMMERED Bednar and Sims winning 12-2 in the SEC tourney.All 12 earned.They looked completely different in the box.Sounds silly ,but not if you have been around the game as long as you and I have.They LOOKED like they knew they could hit Bednar.We looked lost and frozen too often

They ad 5 hits and 3 runs off Bedanar in 2 innings and 4 hits and 3 runs off Sims in < 1 inning.

They had 15 hits.Most going the other way.They did have 4 extra bases with 2 dingers but 11 hits were single and just putting the ball in play.


Water under the bridge now.Need to find a way today.






 
longhorn70 said:
I coached select baseball in the DFW area for 12 years. Coached two teams for 5 of those years. Won 7 World Series. Watching the game yesterday I also thought that the hitters should have taken a different approach. First of all no one bunted. Low scoring game. Get on base any way you can. 21 strikeouts should have never happened. Put the ball in play.
What was our hitting coach doing. Ex major league player and a good one. Why would he let them continue to go up there and get overmatched.
It wasn’t just the players. We don’t know what was said in the dugout but whatever it was it did not seem any of the players did anything different at the plate.
My team played Cuba in a World series and beat them. They were better but we bunted at times to get on base. A hit here in there and we won 3-2.
I hope our approach changes next time we are getting overmatched like we were Sunday.
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Agree with this. We also had a few damn good hitters watching from the bench and unable to contribute.
 
Seved said:
Evidently not. They set an all-time record for strike outs. Acknowledge it. It wasn't just a "bad" game. At the plate, it was a HISTORICALLY bad day.
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It was an awful day. We were out hit 5-4, and people are on here arguing that 2 of their hits were defensive failures. Both teams had tough days at the plate. I think lighting and a giant strike zone were contributors to that.
 
Dog from Duck Hunt said:
You will swing under the ball when you’re late. We were consistently late on the fastball. Not quite as easy as just saying “swing higher”. Whether it was the shadows, us respecting the slider too much, or something about the guy’s delivery that made his velocity play up, we consistently were waaaaaay late on a low 90s fastball.
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his spin rate was off the charts we were under plane the whole game as David said and his plane styaed elevated with a late jump. Not as easy ( as you said to just swing higher--lol) because then Mr Slidey comes a makes you look silly
 
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lol at this thread.

Tulo is a stud we are lucky to have on staff, but he can't bat for kids. He's also a great coach who has helped our players significantly (ask the players, they know).

Coaching select baseball and women's basketball doesn't give you skins, no matter the # of "world series" trophies a random tournament hands out

Criticizing what we have been doing "all-season" that led to a 2 seed is quite the level of expectation and selective grading.

The "hardly overpowering" 94 that guy was throwing is seen by scouts as the best fastball in Omaha due to spin

We sucked at hitting Sunday, baseball has days like that. They got a lucky triple and it made the difference in a pitchers duel.
 
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longhorn70 said:
I coached select baseball in the DFW area for 12 years. Coached two teams for 5 of those years. Won 7 World Series. Watching the game yesterday I also thought that the hitters should have taken a different approach. First of all no one bunted. Low scoring game. Get on base any way you can. 21 strikeouts should have never happened. Put the ball in play.
What was our hitting coach doing. Ex major league player and a good one. Why would he let them continue to go up there and get overmatched.
It wasn’t just the players. We don’t know what was said in the dugout but whatever it was it did not seem any of the players did anything different at the plate.
My team played Cuba in a World series and beat them. They were better but we bunted at times to get on base. A hit here in there and we won 3-2.
I hope our approach changes next time we are getting overmatched like we were Sunday.
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So if you are so good why aren't you our hitting coach?
 
Iceman said:
I have no dog in this fight, but can we create some rules on when it's ok to either criticize or question coaches who obviously have significantly more knowledge and success in sports? Tulo is off limits because he played pro baseball and his Texas squad is in Omaha. But, Greg Davis wasn't off limits while calling plays for undefeated and top ranked Texas teams with a National Championship ring on his finger? I remember Herman catching grief during the Sugar Bowl versus Georgia for calls, despite having a Top 10 team in a NY6 bowl game in just his second year. It seems like it's ok to play the "I coach JV football" card to criticize some coaches, but not the "I coach select baseball" card to question (and not even criticize) others. Just an odd shifting of the "rules" from an outsider's POV.
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The “die-hard” baseball fans on here don’t take to “outsiders” very well imo. They are extremely defensive of Pierce and Tulo and attack anyone who questions anything about the team, more so than posters in football or basketball. Pierce and Tulo have been successful this year but I think the verdict is still out on them. Pierce has gone to Omaha twice during his stint here but if he goes 0-4, I think it raises the question of him being right for Texas baseball, again. He doesn’t have the skins on the wall or the resume of a guy who should have landed the Texas gig.
 
Htown2utSAhorn13 said:
The “die-hard” baseball fans on here don’t take to “outsiders” very well imo. They are extremely defensive of Pierce and Tulo and attack anyone who questions anything about the team, more so than posters in football or basketball. Pierce and Tulo have been successful this year but I think the verdict is still out on them. Pierce has gone to Omaha twice during his stint here but if he goes 0-4, I think it raises the question of him being right for Texas baseball, again. He doesn’t have the skins on the wall or the resume of a guy who should have landed the Texas gig.
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It's odd to me why anyone is defensive about anyone else asking why the Horns didn't try to bunt to get on base when they struggled inning after inning to make contact. Part of achieving greatness is never believing that you've maximized or perfected what you do.......which obviously involves constantly criticizing what you do, how you do it, what can be done better, where you're leaving opportunity on the table, etc.
 
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longhorn70 said:
I coached select baseball in the DFW area for 12 years. Coached two teams for 5 of those years. Won 7 World Series. Watching the game yesterday I also thought that the hitters should have taken a different approach. First of all no one bunted. Low scoring game. Get on base any way you can. 21 strikeouts should have never happened. Put the ball in play.
What was our hitting coach doing. Ex major league player and a good one. Why would he let them continue to go up there and get overmatched.
It wasn’t just the players. We don’t know what was said in the dugout but whatever it was it did not seem any of the players did anything different at the plate.
My team played Cuba in a World series and beat them. They were better but we bunted at times to get on base. A hit here in there and we won 3-2.
I hope our approach changes next time we are getting overmatched like we were Sunday.
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We did attempt bunts, just not successful. Good pitcher day.
 
longhorn70 said:
I know who he is. I said I didn’t know what was said in the dugout. 21 strikeou
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beeevo1 said:
I coach a 12U softball travel team and we were in an elimination game yesterday and down by 2 runs our last at bat. First girl gets a base hit and then two outs back to back. Lefty hitter comes up and I had her bunt and get on with two outs. Next girl gets a single and bases loaded. My 2 hole comes up and hits a walk off double to win the game. Had I not bunted the ball we would’ve lost. Love putting pressure on defenses.
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srv112266 said:
Just throwing this out there……a lot of ex-“professional players”, albeit in Tulo’s case very accomplished, no doubt……however professional players with stats to back them up, do not automatically equate to knowing how to teach. In fact, I’ll take it a step further, I coached with a Jeff Kent (on the hof ballot, and arguably the best hitting 2b)….and he (IMO) was horrendous at teaching hitting….he actually taught counter to how he hit, and he didn’t even realize it. He was once shown a slo-mo video of his swing, and his comment was, I had no idea that’s how “I” hit.

TLDR - not all who had success, can coach / teach.
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Fyihttps://texas.forums.rivals.com/thr...llegiate-national-team-coaching-staff.525770/
 
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Fyihttps://texas.forums.rivals.com/thr...llegiate-national-team-coaching-staff.525770/
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My statement was not an indictment on Tulo’s ability to teach hitting, so not sure where you’re going here. I merely stated, there are ex-professional players, that were accomplished, that do not make accomplished teachers of the game.

FYI - Tulo’s assignment to the USA baseball team has little to do with his one year as an assistant at Texas, and certainly not due to the stats from this team from the plate. Again, I’m not saying he’s a bad hitting coach , Texas is currently ranked 93 in the country in batting average.

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There were 9 more strikeouts last night. Thats 10 of 17 innings worth of strikeouts. Thats a horrible stat. Sometimes pitches have it but that number is ridiculous in the CWS. We have to compete better than that.
 
Without remark to the hitting coach, I think that Pierce has done a kickass job so far. I bitch a lot, and demand a lot, but I remember when we hired him from Tulane how he'd developed hitters, fielders, and pitching. Our fielding alone deserves A+. However, if we lose tomorrow, I will go scorched earth.
 
srv112266 said:
My statement was not an indictment on Tulo’s ability to teach hitting, so not sure where you’re going here. I merely stated, there are ex-professional players, that were accomplished, that do not make accomplished teachers of the game.

FYI - Tulo’s assignment to the USA baseball team has little to do with his one year as an assistant at Texas, and certainly not due to the stats from this team from the plate. Again, I’m not saying he’s a bad hitting coach , Texas is currently ranked 93 in the country in batting average.

www.ncaa.com

NCAA College Baseball DI current team Stats | NCAA.com

Discover the current NCAA Division I Baseball leaders in every stats category, as well as historic leaders.
www.ncaa.com www.ncaa.com
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yea I know that.I was simply replying to the guys calling him out personally and the Just aw I failed to reply to the main guys who questioned his knowlJuust comment that often guys who are great players are not good teachers/coaches .That is absolutely true. It's because the mechanics come so naturally to them.

The best teachers of mechanics in sports are usually guys who had to GRIND to learn the mechanics that did not come naturally to them.

Not the case with Troy.He is an exceptional teacer of how to hit IF he has the talent to teach
.Many MLB guys viewed him aa a go to guy for hitting advice .Team Usa obviously agrees.
Wasn't being a dick...just pointing out that he as a former sreally good hitter (MVP candidate//silver slugger winner etc) Try is also viewed by guys who played an/or d know the game as good teacher (which as you said is often not the case:_).

It's all good....



Beat Virginia:)

EDIT::: just saw I failed to reply to the guys who questioned his coaching ability/hitting knowledge...Sorry
 
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longhorn70 said:
Actually I thought they did a lot better job of putting the ball in play. Bunting in situations was a nice thing to see. Hitting coach talking to the umpire was a good thing. How many less strikeouts did we have.
How you doing coaching t ball. Learned anything?
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I don’t coach t ball. If I did, I wouldn’t be bragging about it on OB know when I got ready to criticize a former MLB player. 🤣

Stick to little league!
 
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longhorn70 said:
I coached select baseball in the DFW area for 12 years. Coached two teams for 5 of those years. Won 7 World Series. Watching the game yesterday I also thought that the hitters should have taken a different approach. First of all no one bunted. Low scoring game. Get on base any way you can. 21 strikeouts should have never happened. Put the ball in play.
What was our hitting coach doing. Ex major league player and a good one. Why would he let them continue to go up there and get overmatched.
It wasn’t just the players. We don’t know what was said in the dugout but whatever it was it did not seem any of the players did anything different at the plate.
My team played Cuba in a World series and beat them. They were better but we bunted at times to get on base. A hit here in there and we won 3-2.
I hope our approach changes next time we are getting overmatched like we were Sunday.
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It's baseball. You live and die by the sword. Today was a great example of why you let your guys swing the bat. 3rd baseman hits an 0-2 pitch out of the park. Btw, you think everyone in the lineup can just drag bunt their way on base? 1 and 2 hole hitters maybe.
And now we have fans bitching about bunting guys over as soon as we have a lead off hitter on. this isnt highschool baseball where corner infielders do a fire drill every time someone bunts like theyve never seen it before. No offense, but this game is nothing like teenage select baseball. These guys have the abuility to change the outcome of the game with one swing and that philosophy is why they got here to begin with, less yall forget. These kids had some off nights. guess what, this is the makeup of the team. it worked well enough to get this far, but they had way too many holes against elite pitching. But asking guys to start bunting to "shake" things up as if that will lead to base runners is lol.
 
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If Tulo couldn't actually coach, I think he would have been outed by now.

And also NOT been invited to be on the staff of the US National teams coming up, instead.
 
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