Help Wanted: Pitching Coach
It won’t be announced until later, but Skip Johnson’s job as pitching coach at The University of Texas ended yesterday in Missouri. You don’t give up a school record 31 runs and survive. You just don’t.
Some perspective is in order. In twenty games against the Missouri football team, the Longhorns have only given up more than 31 points once. If only a John Mackovic defense gives up more runs than you, it’s time to go.
The stat line yesterday: 9 IP, 26 Hits, 7 Home Runs, 12 Walks.
Reminds me of the start to the Nebraska series when Texas pitchers gave up 17 Hits, 7 Walks, 3 Hit Batters, 5 Wild Pitches and an error.
Coach Augie Garrido has been in this situation before. When he first came to Texas, he hired former Longhorn Burt Hooten on as his pitching coach for his first 3 years. Texas went 88-80 before Garrido made a call to Frank Anderson.
He’s made the change before. He needs to do it again.
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Corn Nation has a great round up of the current situation in the Big XII.
April 12, 2008 at 11:33 am
Look higher. After the game Augie didn’t sound deflated, angry, surprised, anything. He sounded like he was going through the motions and didn’t really give a flip. There was no sense of embarrassment at all. I’m not saying he needs to go; only he knows the answer to that. I’m saying maybe he has packed it in as coach and there’s no more fire in the belly. If that’s true he may not hang around much longer and you will get your wish for a new pitching coach. It all starts at the top.
April 12, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Don’t you think you are overreacting just a bit? Look at the brightside, we scored 12 runs.
April 14, 2008 at 12:24 pm
We scored two more on Saturday - however, we were shelled again for 13. Are we still overreacting? Chance Ruffin was the tourniquet, but this needs to get turned around pretty damn fast.
April 15, 2008 at 6:11 am
I’m seeing Augie as riding on his last round-up. This looks like his last year, 1 way or the other. I see a flat, un-enthused team showing up most games, and it’s not the standard (sorry Coach Brown, I needed to borrow the phrase) for Texas baseball.