You always want to be the last team standing with the trophy
in Omaha, and I fully believe a Chad Holbrook Carolina team will be soon. But for this year, if you’re being
intellectually honest about the circumstances, we pretty much went as far as
anyone thought we would. Yes, yes it’s a
shame we gave away the Super Regional. I
get that and was as frustrated as anyone.
But we certainly have benefited from similar things in the past so it
all balances out.
The Gamecocks have either 7 or 8 starting position players
coming back next year, depending on the lineup.
Jordan “Gumby” Montgomery returns to be the ace and leader of the
pitching staff. Boy has he been
impressive so far! And we have tons of
young talent ready to reload just like we always do. In other words, USC is going to be just
fine.
And let’s be honest about the situation Coach Holbrook was
in. He was following essentially the
Emperor of Gamecock Sports in Ray Tanner.
To take an injured and young baseball team to the brink of Omaha in his
first season was quite a Coaching feat.
Did Carolina pick the worst possible time to play its worst
baseball? Yes. But if we are now defining “failure” as
reaching the Super-Regionals and coming within an eyelash of the College World
Series, I am okay with that failure every once in a while.
I am excited about this program and our “new” Skipper. I can promise you certain other wound-up,
tight-rear-ended Coaches in other parts of the state were hoping he was going
to be MUCH worse than he is.
It’s a great time to be a Gamecock!
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