(05-27-2015 11:31 AM)Gray Avenger Wrote: (05-25-2015 11:21 AM)jdock432 Wrote: Good thing the guy we passed up for Rock is going for 3 straight trips to Omaha and his team is the #3 national seed! Nice job RC
You don't know for a fact that the coach at Louisville would have done any better here than Rock has (or that Rock would have done any worse than him at Louisville - they support their baseball team, you know).
I played baseball at Memphis. To say Louisville has always supported their baseball team is simply not true.
They supported it once it started winning, which coincides with 8 years ago. Now, they do have more money to pour into something to make it a winner. Maybe he demanded it, you never know.
Louisville hosting a regional, being a national seed, and making multiple appearances in Omaha would have been laughable 10 years ago.
From 1985-2007 their program won 550 games and lost 686. Since 2007, they have gone 400-179.
Let's not act like they were a power before 2007, they weren't.
In fact, they had only made one regional, in 2002, in their HISTORY.
Since he was hired, in 2007, they have made the regionals every year but one and have been to Omaha 3 times, most notably in his first year after he took over a 31-29 team.