9 times out of 10 when a team plays up and down, it is a direct reflection of the coaching! Doesn't matter which sport it is!
No truer words….
what I think we have to be careful of is not jumping immediately. This was his fourth and really 3 1/2 years if you count the Covid year that canceled everything.
If you take a step back he’s Won a big 10 championship and that team was literally four outs from a super regional against the number one team in the country.
Second year was a bad year. There’s just no two ways around it.
This year was actually a huge improvement over last year!
One of the things that really builds a program for the future is stability and continuity.
Baseball, more than any other sport is going to have really ”down years”. And with all this NIL stuff and easy transfers, college sports is in an entire transition right now.
I am the very first to say with the amount of facilities, fanbase, support and funding that this program has, we should be better than what we are now.
But I also don’t want to put us into the same damn situation we got into by firing Frankie, and then Pellini. PROVEN winners. Hell Pellini had the 3rd highest win percentage in active Power Five coaches at that time…and we fired him! Just senseless. Sure he was irascible but he graduated kids like nobody’s business, put kids in the NFL, we never had NCAA issues and his players loved him and remain loyal to this day. And…he never lost more than 4 a year and took the Huskers to 3 Conference championships. Sounds pretty damn good compared to the last 6 years!
The challenge will be for Trev to decide the right path because I just don’t know.
We also have to remember that this is Will‘s first head coaching job.
Will he learn and adjust and make the right changes? Frost never did and we gave him five years. I saw some real adjustments that were made from last year‘s team.
I don’t envy Trev when he has to make these kinds of decisions.
At the same time, it is clear this team under performed given the talent they had.
That is on coaching and there’s no way to dance around that problem.