Clemson head coach Monte Lee talks about the season-ending loss to Jacksonville St 9-2 Sunday afternoon at Swayze Field in the NCAA Oxford Regional. Read Update »
I have already dissected part of the problem in his first minute of interview. I stopped it after he said it a second time at 1:03.
His words were, we had a lot of men on base, we had a lot of opportunities, "BUT,, we couldn't come up with the 'BIG HIT'!" This is a problem, why do you need a big hit? You just need a base hit to advance players, right? Am I missing something?
I didn't listen to the whole interview and had to stop at 1:03 to rant about his verbiage. Maybe something as simple as that verbiage sends the wrong message to guys if ML sends them to the batter's box and says, " Hey, we have men on base, go get us a big hit!" If these young guys want to make him proud and swing for fences when a base hit does way more than a strike out does? I think there is something going on with ML verbiage and mindset being relayed to the team that insinuates big hits are key, dont give me a little looper over 2nd base?
Maybe i need to critique his message to the players? I was VP of Sales and Marketing of a giant corp several yrs ago, and we focused greatly on vocabulary during sales presentations and the signals certain words and mannerisms would suggest.