I'll say it.

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We're in a strange place with baseball. We play in a league that starts a month too early and is too damn cold to attract the top pitchers who are left over after the pro teams snatch them up in the draft. It was bad enough when we were in the Big 12 and were the northern team that played in a mostly southern league. We knew this when we joined the BIG.

Will a new coach make a difference? I kind of doubt it....maybe for the worse...who knows?
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The very same Nebraska school (cold weather and all) that had a previous coach take NU to the CWS.. it can be done with the correct coach!

 
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It's time Erstad bites the bullet and steps down. Let AD Eichorst finds someone else coach the Husker baseball team. It's been long enough. Coming into the Big 10, everyone thought that the Huskers would own the conference. ZERO titles.

Honestly, I think Mike Anderson would do better with the team.

 
CornHunka said:
It's time Erstad bites the bullet and steps down. Let AD Eichorst finds someone else coach the Husker baseball team. It's been long enough. Coming into the Big 10, everyone thought that the Huskers would own the conference. ZERO titles.

Honestly, I think Mike Anderson would do better with the team.
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yeah, i expected the team to be better in year 5 of Erstad's tenure. They seem to get an offensive funk that they can't get out of. Hard to watch.

 
I'll be honest, I don't follow Husker baseball hardly at all. Just want to throw out there that Mike Anderson is a good guy and a good coach. He was actually my next door (technically in the house directly behind me) neighbor for quite awhile directly before taking the job at Nebraska. I was sad that things didn't pan out for him at DONU. Good guy.

 
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I have said this before and I will say it again. Erstad had no business being a first time head coach at NU!

I get WHY Tom did it, but it was a huge mistake. NU can not sit back and hope a coach will turn out good after waiting 7 years or more.

 
Yeah...I think the sun is setting on the Erstad era. I'd really like to be wrong, but it seems that we can't marry team improvement with stability (read: hitting improves substantially while pitching suffers; pitching is lights out, but hitting is in the dumps), recruiting has been treading water, and we should be at or near the top in this conference every year.

I'd like to see us give him another season to straighten things out...but if we're still flailing around at the end of 2017 with nothing to show for it, it's best all parties agree to find a new coach.

 
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While Erstad has done a decent job of recruiting I still think he misses on too many in-state kids. Now I realize the Stobbe kid was never going to end up at whatever school he chose but him choosing Arkansas over NU is not a good sign. There were 2 other kids on the all-state team that I know of that are headed to KU and Tulane on scholarships that are from Omaha. There's some pretty good baseball talent in the Metro area and I'm not sure how many of those kids even want to play for NU right now. Obviously back in the CWS run there were a couple kids here and there that went elsewhere (Werhle kids come to mind) but NU got quite a few of the kids that were in-state.

If Erstad can keep the kids in-state and away from Creighton I think that will help us quite a bit. The kids in the Metro can play some high level baseball.

 
wiuhusker said:
While Erstad has done a decent job of recruiting I still think he misses on too many in-state kids. Now I realize the Stobbe kid was never going to end up at whatever school he chose but him choosing Arkansas over NU is not a good sign. There were 2 other kids on the all-state team that I know of that are headed to KU and Tulane on scholarships that are from Omaha. There's some pretty good baseball talent in the Metro area and I'm not sure how many of those kids even want to play for NU right now. Obviously back in the CWS run there were a couple kids here and there that went elsewhere (Werhle kids come to mind) but NU got quite a few of the kids that were in-state.

If Erstad can keep the kids in-state and away from Creighton I think that will help us quite a bit. The kids in the Metro can play some high level baseball.
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Alex Gordon and Joba Chamberlain were also two in-staters that turned out to be alright.
 
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Well, with the season over and the hand-wringing and off-season starting, where do you all think we are and should Coach Erstad be given more than one season to bring things back to where they should be?

 
I don't want Erstad fired. Really, he can have about as long as he wants, imo.

But this year's team fit better in a men's slow-pitch softball tournament. #Two-and-BBQ

 
VectorVictor said:
Well, with the season over and the hand-wringing and off-season starting, where do you all think we are and should Coach Erstad be given more than one season to bring things back to where they should be?
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I think we are making progress. But when we made it in 2014 we had the slide for 2015. So to constitute more progress Nebraska should not be a "Last 3 In" they need to be a serious talk of hosting, and not miss the tourney. Can't take one step forward two step backs. Have a good core of players coming back.

 
its been 8 years since the huskers hosted a regional and 9-years since they have won more than 1 game in a regional. also, i think getting to a regional and being competitive year in and year out in the Big 10 will be all Erstad coached teams are capable of. i think he has done a reasonable job with recruiting, but has not been stellar. as long as the fans keep coming out and filling the ball park (which i am almost certain they will) then i don't think he should be fired. hell, how long did they keep Tony Sharpe and John Sanders around? Sharpe's teams, for the most part, were crap. after some initial success in his early years, Sanders did nothing, as well. a coach like Van Horn was probably once in a lifetime type thing for the Big Red. They couldn't keep him and the program has fallen into mediocrity. we could get on the coaching carousel and fire Erstad; bring in another guy and fire him in 5 years; wash, rinse, repeat. Erstad seems to have the kids go to class, fires them up for the occasional run, and seems to know all their names.

 
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its been 8 years since the huskers hosted a regional and 9-years since they have won more than 1 game in a regional. also, i think getting to a regional and being competitive year in and year out in the Big 10 will be all Erstad coached teams are capable of. i think he has done a reasonable job with recruiting, but has not been stellar. as long as the fans keep coming out and filling the ball park (which i am almost certain they will) then i don't think he should be fired. hell, how long did they keep Tony Sharpe and John Sanders around? Sharpe's teams, for the most part, were crap. after some initial success in his early years, Sanders did nothing, as well. a coach like Van Horn was probably once in a lifetime type thing for the Big Red. They couldn't keep him and the program has fallen into mediocrity. we could get on the coaching carousel and fire Erstad; bring in another guy and fire him in 5 years; wash, rinse, repeat. Erstad seems to have the kids go to class, fires them up for the occasional run, and seems to know all their names.
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Sanders was around for 20 years, 9 of which was 40+ seasons (went down hill in his later years). That was a different time, though.

 
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