Comments on: Buckeye State Baseball fall season series: CSU

By: Huskie fan

Huskie fan — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:45:01 +0000

Ryan Franks should be a great leader and lead the team to a surprising year!

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:12:57 +0000

From what I can tell, so far, the man is trying to improve the program. He has scored a couple of good recruits lately. A few I was surprised he got. This next few years will tell.

By: .......

....... — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:22:43 +0000

I did read it right and I don’t dissagree with you about the schedule, it has been pretty weak. We beat Louville a couple years ago, who was ranked 13th at the time, but other than that, you’re right about not really beating anyone big. But that’s just a part of rebuilding, it doesn’t happen overnight. Theres no reason to play big time teams right now when the team is still really young and have no experience playing at that level. But I agree and think they should at least have a couple big teams on the schedule.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:16:38 +0000

If read right you would see i said they didnt beat anyone. he downgraded the schedule alot just like this season they play balwin wallace,notre dame and case. When i talk about grades im refering to his notion that he took over a mess. If anything the last coaching staff didnt take many academic risk. You can ask people on staff atthe school and they will tell you this guy is an arrogant wind bag that just talks a good game but cant back it up.

By: ........

........ — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:39:53 +0000

Well actually they’ve won 20 games or more the last 2 seasons, which they haven’t done since 2000 or 2001, so I’m pretty sure they are improving. And I didn’t talk about the guys that were ineligible because he can’t control what a player is going to do off the feild. A recruit may have straight A’s coming out of high school, but you don’t know what they are going to do once they get away from home. They may be a great athlete, but some kids just can’t handle their free time the way they should. I don’t see how you can really blame that on a coach when it’s a players fault for not getting the grades. Like you said, they aren’t on the team anymore, which means he doesn’t keep kids that have academic problems. They’re released from the program and the problem is solved.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:15:30 +0000

The image hasnt changed in the high school coaching community. He talks a good game but they havent won anything. Even when you where there those teams didnt beat anyone and did about the same as the previous years. Why dont you talk about the guys he brought in that where academic nightmares and arent on the team anymore.

By: Solomon Haberkost

Solomon Haberkost — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:03:22 +0000

Cleveland State Baseball is awesome

By: .......

....... — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:07:58 +0000

He’s not arrogant or insane, he’s just confident. I played for CSU the past 4 years, and with him for 3 of the years. People just assume that he’s arrogant because he actually has confidence in his team. The image of the team, on and off the field, has completely changed from my freshman year until now. The team GPA is now around a 3.0 and we actually have some respect from other teams in the Horizon League, which we didn’t have before. I’m looking forward to seeing what they can do this coming season in the Horizon League and wish them the best of luck.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:54:04 +0000

Cleveland State will score runs. The question is whether they will stop the other team from scoring. If their bullpen does a serviceable job, then they will contend for the conference championship.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:05:26 +0000

This coach is arrogant and insane. He did not inherit half of the issues hes talking about. I know of three kids he recruited that were academic problems and are not on the team anymore. The previous didnt recruit those kids he did