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Post by Big D on Feb 18, 2023 15:45:55 GMT -6
What happened to softball? 0-7 to start, would likely be 0-9 had games against UConn and Georgia Tech not be canceled. We’re losing big to small programs. Idaho St, St Francis, North Texas, Fresno St, Seattle. Who? We lost Kayla Wedl and our lead off hitter (forget her name) the year before Wedl and we’ve taken a nosedive off the cliff.
Softball and baseball used to be points of pride in the dept. Not so much anymore. Baseball is a shocker…that they took a back seat to WSU after Granderson Field was built is a sin.
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Post by UICJohn on Feb 18, 2023 19:06:35 GMT -6
Softball has been awful. Awful season last year too.
Wedl graduated. Is she still on the coaching staff?
Another season like last year and we will need a change for sure. And this start isn’t promising at all. As you mentioned, we aren’t losing to SEC teams here.
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Post by UICJohn on Feb 22, 2023 10:14:59 GMT -6
And yikes!
Out of their next 9 games, 7 of them are against ranked teams including one against #5 Clemson and two against #1 Oklahoma!
Very likely we see a UIC softball team that is 0-17
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Post by UICJohn on Feb 24, 2023 11:41:55 GMT -6
This is going to be a tough streak to keep track of but now 0-9 after a 7-1 loss to Michigan State.
On deck - #5 Clemson
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Post by UICJohn on Feb 24, 2023 18:00:38 GMT -6
0-10
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Post by UICJohn on Feb 26, 2023 15:37:58 GMT -6
0-13
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Post by UICJohn on Mar 5, 2023 15:49:32 GMT -6
0-17
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Post by Big D on Mar 6, 2023 12:54:48 GMT -6
I took a peek at the stats. In 17 games, we have been outscored 123-17! That’s an average of 1 run per game. Wow.
We have played a very tough schedule, which is good for RPI/NET. It seems you’re better losing against top competition than beating weak competition. But I think we may have gone overboard. Does a schedule like this really make you better? It can’t be good for morale/confidence. You hear it from coaches a lot. “A hard schedule will prepare us for conference”. I think that’s overrated. Hopefully we can win a couple of our next four games before starting conference play…then we’ll see if playing this ridiculous schedule will pay off.
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Post by UICJohn on Mar 12, 2023 15:07:09 GMT -6
0-21
Wow
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Post by flamernation on Mar 13, 2023 6:48:06 GMT -6
Coaches live and die on their win lost record. In a world of what have you done for me lately Coach has got to be on the hot seat. I get the win lose stuff but what is unaccusable is the number of errors we are committing and the lack of runs we are scratching across the board. You can't get shut out by mid majors. Coach was a player on the 1994 team and won us some ball game while coaching in the HORIZON LEAGUE but maybe she don't have it anymore coaching at the higher level...Other note maybe the resources are not there. The whole program has not won anything under Lipitz tenure beside one 2021 NCAA Volleyball apperance. Men soccer use to be good they are not. Baseball won be up there with Wright State, they are not there.
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Post by UICJohn on Mar 19, 2023 16:46:18 GMT -6
Holy s***.
UIC opens MVC play today and their first game trail 13-0 to Indiana State. This is a team we are facing that is 10-11 and preseason poll was 8th.
This year is going to be historically bad (already is).
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Post by Big D on Mar 20, 2023 0:39:39 GMT -6
How did we get selected for 11/12 in the preseason poll AND also receive 1 first place vote? Did we vote for ourselves?
This season has been catastrophic. Will we win a game? What happens if we don’t?
I don’t understand how you go from NCAA Tournament and recruiting/coaching falls off a cliff 2 years later.
Similarly, how is baseball losing series to SIUE? Do they play in a $10 million stadium in one of the greatest cities in the world at a top 100 school? Couldn’t beat them in soccer this past season either. And no way we could beat them in basketball. We are underachieving across the board and I’m sick of it.
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Post by UICJohn on Mar 20, 2023 9:28:22 GMT -6
Will we win a game? I have no clue. I would imagine that we sneak one or two by Valpo, who is 3-17, this year. But we are looking at less than 5 wins. For a whole season.
Right now, we are one of 4 teams in NCAA Division 1 softball with 0 wins along with Stonehill, Mississippi Valley State, and Penn. Out of 306 teams. It is truly awful.
And yes - we are underachieving in EVERY SPORT WE HAVE!
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Post by UICJohn on Mar 20, 2023 15:36:47 GMT -6
Update:
0-24
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Post by flamernation on Mar 21, 2023 6:22:33 GMT -6
UICjohn-
Yes there is only 4 teams winless but we 0-25
Stonehill is 0-14 Mississippi Valley 0-19
If these teams played 6 to 11 more games do they get a win. Maybe maybe not but statically we are team 306. We are the worst record team in the country!
Lot of loses falling under Lipitz leadership.
Ncaa tournament birth in Volleyball in 2021 is the only winning product. Not good. We need to win more peroid.
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