REGIONAL FINAL: Frogs v. Wolfpack --- Monday Night Game Thread (7 pm)
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Hoosierfrog
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Sports Center has led with this at the top of the hour all morning...crankuptheenolagay said:
Pharm Frog
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I can't believe I actually read this but since I did I thought I'd post and share this insanity with you. It all stems from a debate over at PackPride about who is ultimately responsible for calming players' nerves in stressful situations: coach or players themselves. Enjoy 50 Shades of weird....
You clearly have never played sports. Did you hear the announcer (former MLB pitcher) talk about pitching in the World Series and having his glove shake from nerves? No coach can "coach up" enough to make that disappear. You have to calm yourself. The errors, crazy balk calls, never on the mound, etc. lost that game. The team just folded under pressure and allowed the game to get away from them. When things aren't going your way, you have to calm yourself and not allow the bad calls, fans, etc. to get to you.
Oh, that right nostradmus?
1999, state basketball playoffs, up three points with the ball and 8 seconds to play, team's best foul shooter is double teamed, so the ball has to get in-bounded to the center to avoid the 5 second violation. He gets the ball just fine, but he's a 50% free throw shooter and knows he has to get rid of it, unfortunately there's only one other guy nearby even remotely open, and that guy was me. Gets me the ball, other team converges, foul. So here I am going to the line, up 3, 8 seconds to go, only need one to seal the game. Hands are trembling like Michael J. Fox on a Mediterranean ferry ride without his medication. Can barely hold the ball still enough to get into my routine. Let the first first one go and it's damn near a half foot short. No lift in the legs, too much fear and hesitation in the fingertips to even get it close. Pressure was totally getting to me. Coach calls a timeout. I figure he's going to give me some pep talk. But he's not even looking at me. No one is. I sit down and just fade out. I can't hear anything. Can't see anything except the blurred aura of the gym. Totally zoned out and unfocused, except on how I'm getting ready to piss off all my teammates by blowing a chance at the state championship. Then about halfway through the timeout this random super hot college chick in a low cut blouse taps me on the shoulder, she's standing above me and bending over so low to give me just the perfect sight line to see all her busty glory, she leans in even closer and says in my ear, "Hey, if you make this free throw I'm probably going to cream my panties. You want to help me cream my panties?" Then she winks and heads back to her seat in the stands. I'm completely dumbfounded by all this of course. Cause that **** don't happen in real life. This ain't Teenwolf. And I'm sure as **** ain't no basketball star. I'm not even a starter.Second or third guy off the bench. But damn. That chick was really hot. Buzzer sounds. Coach finishes the timeout. I haven't heard a damn word of it. No one says anything to me heading back to the floor. I look over my shoulder back at that chick, she's in her seat looking dead straight at me running her thumb and forefinger along the v-line of her shirt and softly biting her bottom lip, the other hand conspicuously placed in between her thighs. Can you guess what was on my mind? It sure as **** wasn't losing out on a chance to play for the state title. I sank the free throw, stole the inbounds pass, sank two more free throws, and we won the game by 6. I get out of the locker room and guess who's waiting for me. Or so I thought. Actually she was waiting for my coach. She was his niece. He put her up to it. It worked.
Sometimes you can calm yourself. Sometimes you need help. Part of coaching is recognizing when your players need that help. Maybe your coaches just didn't give a **** and were happy to let you figure it out for yourselves, or maybe they just didn't have bangin hot nieces, don't know, what I do know is that any coach who is unaware that it's his responsibility--and his job--to constantly monitor/massage the mental awareness and emotional state of his players during a game is probably not a very good coach, and certainly shouldn't be getting paid millions of dollars for it. Now maybe Avent is aware of this, maybe he just sucks at it. Regardless, you can't blow a 7 run lead in two ******* innings without having a coach who's completely incompetent at recognizing his team melting down and knowing what to do about it.
You clearly have never played sports. Did you hear the announcer (former MLB pitcher) talk about pitching in the World Series and having his glove shake from nerves? No coach can "coach up" enough to make that disappear. You have to calm yourself. The errors, crazy balk calls, never on the mound, etc. lost that game. The team just folded under pressure and allowed the game to get away from them. When things aren't going your way, you have to calm yourself and not allow the bad calls, fans, etc. to get to you.
Oh, that right nostradmus?
1999, state basketball playoffs, up three points with the ball and 8 seconds to play, team's best foul shooter is double teamed, so the ball has to get in-bounded to the center to avoid the 5 second violation. He gets the ball just fine, but he's a 50% free throw shooter and knows he has to get rid of it, unfortunately there's only one other guy nearby even remotely open, and that guy was me. Gets me the ball, other team converges, foul. So here I am going to the line, up 3, 8 seconds to go, only need one to seal the game. Hands are trembling like Michael J. Fox on a Mediterranean ferry ride without his medication. Can barely hold the ball still enough to get into my routine. Let the first first one go and it's damn near a half foot short. No lift in the legs, too much fear and hesitation in the fingertips to even get it close. Pressure was totally getting to me. Coach calls a timeout. I figure he's going to give me some pep talk. But he's not even looking at me. No one is. I sit down and just fade out. I can't hear anything. Can't see anything except the blurred aura of the gym. Totally zoned out and unfocused, except on how I'm getting ready to piss off all my teammates by blowing a chance at the state championship. Then about halfway through the timeout this random super hot college chick in a low cut blouse taps me on the shoulder, she's standing above me and bending over so low to give me just the perfect sight line to see all her busty glory, she leans in even closer and says in my ear, "Hey, if you make this free throw I'm probably going to cream my panties. You want to help me cream my panties?" Then she winks and heads back to her seat in the stands. I'm completely dumbfounded by all this of course. Cause that **** don't happen in real life. This ain't Teenwolf. And I'm sure as **** ain't no basketball star. I'm not even a starter.Second or third guy off the bench. But damn. That chick was really hot. Buzzer sounds. Coach finishes the timeout. I haven't heard a damn word of it. No one says anything to me heading back to the floor. I look over my shoulder back at that chick, she's in her seat looking dead straight at me running her thumb and forefinger along the v-line of her shirt and softly biting her bottom lip, the other hand conspicuously placed in between her thighs. Can you guess what was on my mind? It sure as **** wasn't losing out on a chance to play for the state title. I sank the free throw, stole the inbounds pass, sank two more free throws, and we won the game by 6. I get out of the locker room and guess who's waiting for me. Or so I thought. Actually she was waiting for my coach. She was his niece. He put her up to it. It worked.
Sometimes you can calm yourself. Sometimes you need help. Part of coaching is recognizing when your players need that help. Maybe your coaches just didn't give a **** and were happy to let you figure it out for yourselves, or maybe they just didn't have bangin hot nieces, don't know, what I do know is that any coach who is unaware that it's his responsibility--and his job--to constantly monitor/massage the mental awareness and emotional state of his players during a game is probably not a very good coach, and certainly shouldn't be getting paid millions of dollars for it. Now maybe Avent is aware of this, maybe he just sucks at it. Regardless, you can't blow a 7 run lead in two ******* innings without having a coach who's completely incompetent at recognizing his team melting down and knowing what to do about it.
I see it both ways. Rafy jr wasn't involved in his dad's steroid use, but cynically I doubt the apple falls far from the tree. I try to view ALL my major life decisions through the prism of how it will affect my son. Because I know they WILL affect him. So instead of trying to cut off the natural outgrowth of his own actions, maybe daddy should just either stay away from the action, or alternatively, just spend lots and lots and lots of time apologizing for his own issues... Which, as far as I can recall, he never did, at least publicly. 'Merica loves to forgive, if a jerk apologizes.tcudoc said:
Hoosierfrog
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Me of little faith. What a shocker to wake up to!Hoosierfrog said:
Maybe I need to give up more often. Last time I did this we were done about 40 or some obnoxious number at BYU. The wife made me tour the Vanderbilt mansion in a foul mood in Asheville, NC and almost drove off a mountain road getting scores when they announced a "a phenomenal comeback in the MWC this afternoon..."
Pharm Frog
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OICU812 said:
And if more people thought this way, I'm pretty sure that better decisions get made.
Young and Horned
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Was looking on NCAA site for SR info and came across some stats for the playoffs. Looking at this graphic, I think it is pretty amazing how many of the top performers made it to the Super Regionals. http://www.ncaa.com/2015-college-baseball-tournament-statistics
For offense, looks like the top ten in HRs and Avg and the top nine in RBIs made it to the Super Regionals.
For pitching, looks like 8 of top 10 in Ks and innings pitched and 9 of top 10 in Wins.
For offense, looks like the top ten in HRs and Avg and the top nine in RBIs made it to the Super Regionals.
For pitching, looks like 8 of top 10 in Ks and innings pitched and 9 of top 10 in Wins.
fanatical frog
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TCU'91 said:
Note to mods: I want to "like" this post multiple times....please make it happen.
Realtorfrog
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Whew,,,, what a game
Great atmosphere, crowd noise rattled them in the field and on the mound.
I have to believe our coaches pointed something out to the men in blue to look for from their pitchers. Balks aren't called that often
Great atmosphere, crowd noise rattled them in the field and on the mound.
I have to believe our coaches pointed something out to the men in blue to look for from their pitchers. Balks aren't called that often
Hoosierfrog
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I wonder what the stats are with one on, two outs, bottom 9 with a pitcher with an era under 1?Pharm Frog said:
Stiff Arm Frog
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Link? I'd love to read some of that.PhormerPhrog said:
Pharm Frog
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Hoosierfrog said:
Slightly higher than the same situation with nobody on (which is what we had prior to the walk)
Get Your Frogs Up
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Jaja. Same here. I made some comments I probably wouldn't otherwise 99 times out of 100 to some of those NCST relievers. I'm glad my wife and daughter left early because I would have absolutely embarrassed the boat out of them. Don't regret a thing, though - whatever we all did worked.TCURiggs said:
corpuschristifrog
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PhormerPhrog said:
"If TCU loses will the super still be at TCU?"
So much bandwagon.
salamander
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That TCU fan is sorry.TCURiggs said:
Pharm Frog
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salamander said:
Apparently not.
