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Re: Softball followers - how did we come so far so fast?

May 7, 2021, 11:04 PM

For starters, we have a great coach. He's been there done that so to speak. If you read his resume, he's used to starting up new teams. That being said, Cagle. She's generational talent. About like Trevor. She could have gone straight to the bigs. Plus we have a one two punch with Marissa G. We could use a bit more contact hitting in the bottom 3rd of our order.

There is a huge demand and a wealth of talent here in SC and the South. Reason that usuck has been competitive on a national scale. I've actually heard it for years about Clemson. We have a huge softball complex and I'd go watch the young gals at tournaments. They'd see me with my Clemson gear walking and ask when Clemson was going to get a team... Lots of demand. Coots were down this year because their ace graduated.

Third, our schedule has been favorable. We're a really good team but the ACC in general is down this year in softball. We will know exactly how good we are when we play FSU and other teams that have Val type pitching. Va tech and Duke are good teams and have a good chance to advance to a Super regional. Then the sledding gets tough.

When you have a Val, you can win the 3-2 and 1-0 games. Our fielding is getting better but we still need to clean up the costly error or boot to compete in the csws.

Hth some. It's going to be an exciting ride. We are young but thanks to coach Rittman and his well deserved and respected reputation that's put a lot of talent in the bigs with his gig at Stanford.

Personally, I'd love to see DRad take that approach in hiring in some other sports.

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You only need one good pitcher and we have one.

and that was probably luck.

I'd also say that softball players don't develop that much from high school to college, so a team of seniors isn't necessarily going to beat up a younger team.

While it's a team sport, the positions are played individually so you can pretty easily mix and match players for 90% of the game as there just isn't that much team work.

There's also a gap between the top few teams that make the world series and a gap between the pretty good teams and everyone else. I'd say it's because there's so little talent nationally there aren't enough good players to go around.

Based on what I've seen we're on the wrong side of the elite gap in the "pretty good" category.

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Softball followers - how did we come so far so fast?

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I don't think Cagle was highly

Clemson is a good softball team..

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