[teejers1]

How bad is Stanford playing? WSU comes to town this weekend. Team is 9-10 overall, 1-5 in the conf. The lone win was against OR State 9-8 on March 13. We are 1/2 game ahead at 1-4.  A week from today we’ll know a lot more.

At what point will folks re-examine the assumption that Esquer was a great hire?

There is still a TON of ball to be played this year, so there's no reason to overreact.  Right now on a down slope, but hopefully the winning (or at least playing well) will return soon.  

But I'll be interested to see where the program is in 1-2 years - then we'll have a much better picture of coaching front.

Give me a BREAK, with this talk about the coaching hire. Wasn't it just last year that this program was in the CWS??? YES, this team is playing bad, but I think it has a lot to do with how Brock Jones is playing. Someone else needs to step up and take that supporting role. Jones is not playing up to the standards set by all his press, and the team is reacting to it! What else is Jones' doing to help this team out?

I am sure with Jones' speed, he has the green light on the base paths. Is Jones using the fact that he is being walked so many times, to steal that base and put himself in scoring position? It's not all about the longball, it is other areas of the game that he should be utilizing to help this team! Damn, they put that shift on him, and he is taking strikes on the outer third of the plate. How about hitting against the shift, or laying one down to get on? 

This program has won a Pac title, hosted 2 regionals, and gone to the CWS in the last 4 years, and this was a questionable hire??? What makes Garko so great. If Garko wanted to be a college HC, he would have stayed at UOP to show he could turn a program around and make it a contender, he bailed because it seems like he did not want to put in the work. Esquer was coaching in this conference before, so what makes everyone think that Garko could have come in here and do a better job? 

Streaks like this happen in baseball, this team obviously has not made it easy on themselves. Good that WSU coming to town this weekend, and hopefully they can pull their heads out and play better ball. A series win will be good, and sweep would be better. This conference beats up on each other, so anything can happen. Oregon, they did not put that team away when they should have, they let that one get away from them. U of A, the same outcome, had the lead and then pissed it away. If they were getting boat raced every series, that would be a different story. 

I would say U of A is sending a message to Jay Johnson for leaving! 

RELAX!

The only "question" about the hire, at least in this thread, was the assumption that it was a great one.  No one said it was a mediocre, let alone bad, one.

But let's keep your post and other in this thread and see how they age.

[teejers1]

How bad is Stanford playing? WSU comes to town this weekend. Team is 9-10 overall, 1-5 in the conf. The lone win was against OR State 9-8 on March 13. We are 1/2 game ahead at 1-4.  A week from today we’ll know a lot more.

At what point will folks re-examine the assumption that Esquer was a great hire?

There is still a TON of ball to be played this year, so there's no reason to overreact.  Right now on a down slope, but hopefully the winning (or at least playing well) will return soon.  

But I'll be interested to see where the program is in 1-2 years - then we'll have a much better picture of coaching front.

Give me a BREAK, with this talk about the coaching hire. Wasn't it just last year that this program was in the CWS??? YES, this team is playing bad, but I think it has a lot to do with how Brock Jones is playing. Someone else needs to step up and take that supporting role. Jones is not playing up to the standards set by all his press, and the team is reacting to it! What else is Jones' doing to help this team out?

I am sure with Jones' speed, he has the green light on the base paths. Is Jones using the fact that he is being walked so many times, to steal that base and put himself in scoring position? It's not all about the longball, it is other areas of the game that he should be utilizing to help this team! Damn, they put that shift on him, and he is taking strikes on the outer third of the plate. How about hitting against the shift, or laying one down to get on? 

This program has won a Pac title, hosted 2 regionals, and gone to the CWS in the last 4 years, and this was a questionable hire??? What makes Garko so great. If Garko wanted to be a college HC, he would have stayed at UOP to show he could turn a program around and make it a contender, he bailed because it seems like he did not want to put in the work. Esquer was coaching in this conference before, so what makes everyone think that Garko could have come in here and do a better job? 

Streaks like this happen in baseball, this team obviously has not made it easy on themselves. Good that WSU coming to town this weekend, and hopefully they can pull their heads out and play better ball. A series win will be good, and sweep would be better. This conference beats up on each other, so anything can happen. Oregon, they did not put that team away when they should have, they let that one get away from them. U of A, the same outcome, had the lead and then pissed it away. If they were getting boat raced every series, that would be a different story. 

I would say U of A is sending a message to Jay Johnson for leaving! 

RELAX!

The only "question" about the hire, at least in this thread, was the assumption that it was a great one.  No one said it was a mediocre, let alone bad, one.

But let's keep your post and other in this thread and see how they age.