2016 Season thread

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 4:14 pm

Bangkok Wildcat wrote:http://www.scout.com/college/arizona-st ... ts?page=11

Oh Man, second best thing about this early morning is this thread......all the ASSU fans (except one or two) are moaning and making excuses......my favorite comment was: '5-1 final Scum win. Hate to say it but their program appears in better shape that ours with our last championship more than 30 years ago. Yuck....'

LMAO, really??? A little late to the game with that observation genius!

Seriously. Last time they even played in the cws finals was 1998. They've only been in the cws finals once in the last 28 years

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 4:15 pm

I read that post too. Who da fuck are the Scum to them??? They are ScumDevils.

SCCats · Post by **SCCats** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 4:22 pm

So impressive from the batcats

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 4:29 pm

prh · Post by **prh** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 4:33 pm

So here's my thinking about TCU vs CCU...

Coastal's ace probably can't go until Wednesday. 137 pitches last night, that would be 4 days of rest. Maybe they throw him Tuesday if we win Mon, but that's gonna be tough sledding. Also, they burned through their bullpen last Thursday. Not sure what they've got for tonight after the starter.
Coastal can hit, but not better than our pitchers are pitching.
Coastal would likely have the crowd support besides our fans.

TCU has 4 errors in 3 games.
That Luken Baker kid can smash.
That's all I got on them sorry guys

We've been in hostile environments, so I discount the crowd factor more than usual. I tend to lean Coastal, but mainly because of their pitching situation. They appear to be throwing their #2 guy, and he's gonna have to eat up innings for them. I think their pitching depth is a lot less than ours (assuming Bannister can go Monday).

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 4:34 pm

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/embed/_lAKha-IrTs[/youtube]

Gladiator Cat · Post by **Gladiator Cat** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 4:44 pm

JC Cloney, Gomez, Reves, Deason and Ming just became our most important game day concerns. We're only going to win this thing by some of the more obscure lesser played guys stepping up big-time in the pitching rotation.

If I was a betting man I would say its 60/40 we never see Bannister again. Just a hunch.

From the innings he's pitched I also think Dalbec is done for the most part for anything over an inning at most. Ginkel's pitch count is getting up there as well.

Basically it sounds like all of the teams are in the same boat pitching wise so the bats are going to be huge in the championship games.

Even with our tired arms, I think we still win this whole thing.

Gladiator Cat · Post by **Gladiator Cat** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 4:51 pm

I will say if the we go to a third game for the winner take all Dalbec again on short rest and Bannister (if he can play) will be options in limited form.

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 5:32 pm

Fuck it. We got no worries. Whoever wins tonight has to deal with us.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 5:34 pm

CCU up 1-0

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 5:52 pm

wyo-cat wrote:I read that post too. Who da fuck are the Scum to them??? They are ScumDevils.

UA (or as they like to say ... AU) is in "Tuscum"...

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 5:58 pm

Chicat wrote:
wyo-cat wrote:I read that post too. Who da fuck are the Scum to them??? They are ScumDevils.
UA (or as they like to say ... AU) is in "Tuscum"...

They like to throw Brown Town around a lot as well. You might be a racist if....

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 5:58 pm

3-0 CCU

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 6:02 pm

Coach JJ in the box with the ESPN crew

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 6:27 pm

5-1 CCU

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 6:28 pm

5-1 Coastal Carolina in the 4th. I don't know if I would want to play them. They look tough.

Main Event · Post by **Main Event** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 6:33 pm

Looks like we won't have a choice

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 6:37 pm

Catintheheat wrote:5-1 Coastal Carolina in the 4th. I don't know if I would want to play them. They look tough.

Check that....7-1

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:09 pm

Lucky

Sage&Silver · Post by **Sage&Silver** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:20 pm

TCU with runners on 2nd and 3rd with no outs... CCU firing up the pen. Hopefully TCU makes this close late.

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:29 pm

Sage&Silver wrote:TCU with runners on 2nd and 3rd with no outs... CCU firing up the pen. Hopefully TCU makes this close late.

Both teams seem to be able to hit but pitching is a problem. I want both to wear out their bullpen.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:32 pm

7-4 going to the bottom of the seventh

CatMG · Post by **CatMG** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:37 pm

After watching this game, definitely would rather play TCU. If anything, hopefully it gets even closer so CCU starts using their bullpen.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 7:53 pm

Coastal three outs away

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 8:11 pm

Coastal Carolina it is.

BTFD and beat the Chanticleers!

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 8:56 pm

Only UCSB was lower

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:42 pm

CalStateTempe · Post by **CalStateTempe** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:43 pm

WTG BatCATS!

Newportcat · Post by **Newportcat** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 11:10 pm

Is this reality, is this really happening

I thought Jay Johnson would be a great coach and seemed to check all the boxes when he was hired but did anyone ever think this season would happen???

Jay Johnson has the opportunity to be the greatest coach in the history of Arizona Athletics if he keeps this up. What he has done this year is beyond remarkable. To take some of these guys and turn them into these type of players. Speechless

Can you imagine how strong our recruiting is going to be

Man, let's bear down and bring home this national title

FreeSpiritCat · Post by **FreeSpiritCat** » Sat Jun 25, 2016 11:49 pm

Newportcat wrote:Is this reality, is this really happening

I thought Jay Johnson would be a great coach and seemed to check all the boxes when he was hired but did anyone ever think this season would happen???

Jay Johnson has the opportunity to be the greatest coach in the history of Arizona Athletics if he keeps this up. What he has done this year is beyond remarkable. To take some of these guys and turn them into these type of players. Speechless

Can you imagine how strong our recruiting is going to be

Man, let's bear down and bring home this national title

I would say Mike Candrea has the greatest coach in the history of Arizona Athletics wrapped up, even though he's on the downside of his career. It is very difficult to match his 8 national championships.

Sage&Silver · Post by **Sage&Silver** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 12:18 am

Newportcat wrote:Is this reality, is this really happening

I thought Jay Johnson would be a great coach and seemed to check all the boxes when he was hired but did anyone ever think this season would happen???

Jay Johnson has the opportunity to be the greatest coach in the history of Arizona Athletics if he keeps this up. What he has done this year is beyond remarkable. To take some of these guys and turn them into these type of players. Speechless

Can you imagine how strong our recruiting is going to be

Man, let's bear down and bring home this national title

I wonder if he will hit on all of his performance bonuses in the first year.

az91 · Post by **az91** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 12:50 am

Catintheheat wrote:5-1 Coastal Carolina in the 4th. I don't know if I would want to play them. They look tough.

Whoever thought we would be scared of playing Coastal Carolina?

whatisee · Post by **whatisee** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 3:32 am

az91 wrote:
Catintheheat wrote:5-1 Coastal Carolina in the 4th. I don't know if I would want to play them. They look tough.
Whoever thought we would be scared of playing Coastal Carolina?

We're not...not sure who would be other than fans who haven't watched the Cat's. Should be a great series with two teams that play aggressively.

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 4:49 am

Are we now officially a baseball school?

az91 · Post by **az91** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 5:47 am

Alieberman wrote:Are we now officially a baseball school?

LOL, I was pondering the same thing.

Newportcat · Post by **Newportcat** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 7:13 am

Never has this clip been more relevant for me to post

LETS GO CATS!!!!!!!!!!! BTFD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Newportcat · Post by **Newportcat** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 7:35 am

Catintheheat wrote:
Newportcat wrote:Is this reality, is this really happening

I thought Jay Johnson would be a great coach and seemed to check all the boxes when he was hired but did anyone ever think this season would happen???

Jay Johnson has the opportunity to be the greatest coach in the history of Arizona Athletics if he keeps this up. What he has done this year is beyond remarkable. To take some of these guys and turn them into these type of players. Speechless

Can you imagine how strong our recruiting is going to be

Man, let's bear down and bring home this national title
I would say Mike Candrea has the greatest coach in the history of Arizona Athletics wrapped up, even though he's on the downside of his career. It is very difficult to match his 8 national championships.

Do not get me wrong, I think Candrea is a God but he also is one of the luckiest coaches at the U of A in terms of the sport he coaches is not played at USC and for many years was an after thought of sport in most of the country. For basically forever he has only had to compete against UCLA for SoCal recruits which is a massive competitive advantage for him compared to other coaches at U of A like football, volleyball, golf, swimming, baseball, etc. One of the biggest competitive advantages our Basketball program has had is the fact USC typically sucks at basketball. One of the reasons I think our football program will always struggle is because of USC football in terms of them gobbling up all the top talent in SoCal with UCLA. He also did not have to deal with the SEC or Big 12 really caring about the sport he played. I mean for many years it was basically him just competing against UCLA. From 1984 through 2007 Arizona or UCLA was either the champion or in the NCAA Finals every year but once. Now things have dramatically changed where the BIG 12 and the SEC has really stepped up as well as other schools in the PAC 12 like Washington, CAL and Oregon. I think now we are seeing that maybe Candrea had some external factors which contributed greatly to his ridiculous amount of success.

Jay Johnson on the other hand took this rag tag group of players, many of whom did not perform well for a Hall of Fame coach, and turned them into legends. I think it is ten times harder in 2016 to win the College world series then it was for Candrea to win say the NCAA Softball title in 1997.

If he wins the Natty this year, I think it has to be our most unbelievable Title. Maybe 1997 for basketball would top it. But this is just crazy to think we are actually even talking about winning a Natty in 2016 for baseball. Even Greg Hansen thinks Jay Johnson is good

If this season is an indication of the type of coach Jay Johnson is, I truly believe he could be on his way to being our greatest coach ever.

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 7:55 am

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 8:06 am

Lute wasn't too shabby

prh · Post by **prh** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 8:40 am

UAEebs86 wrote:

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 9:18 am

Alieberman wrote:Are we now officially a baseball school?

I think we are the ones who decide that. It starts by unburying the Wildcat Baseball board out from under the "Other Arizona Sports" section. I think it would be awesome if we embraced the fervor that got going where the Ooh Ahh started it all. Put it in the main board index, maybe even at the top, and allow the fandom to explode around our winningest sport. Let's do it.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 9:26 am

Longhorned wrote:
Alieberman wrote:Are we now officially a baseball school?
I think we are the ones who decide that. It starts by unburying the Wildcat Baseball board out from under the "Other Arizona Sports" section. I think it would be awesome if we embraced the fervor that got going where the Ooh Ahh started it all. Put it in the main board index, maybe even at the top, and allow the fandom to explode around our winningest sport. Let's do it.

I'm down with that. No reason both with our historical and recent success that baseball fandom should be buried with sand volleyball and the like. Time for its own subforum.

prh · Post by **prh** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 9:30 am

Longhorned wrote:
Alieberman wrote:Are we now officially a baseball school?
I think we are the ones who decide that. It starts by unburying the Wildcat Baseball board out from under the "Other Arizona Sports" section. I think it would be awesome if we embraced the fervor that got going where the Ooh Ahh started it all. Put it in the main board index, maybe even at the top, and allow the fandom to explode around our winningest sport. Let's do it.

Completely agree. I think it's tough to say that when the number of people who care about baseball seems so much smaller than basketball/football. I ran into a Wildcat at the grocery store yesterday (Salt Lake City), we talked for a moment, and I asked about the CWS. "I'm not a baseball guy" well ok but if you're an Arizona guy, well, you should be. But oh well.

For anyone interested in what Coastal's fans are like, here is their very active baseball board. http://www.coastalfans.com/forum/index.php?board=6.0" target="_blank

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 9:38 am

I wonder if the coastal fans will be as bad and racist as their south Carolina brethren were in 2012.

gumby · Post by **gumby** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 9:44 am

Alieberman wrote:Are we now officially a baseball school?

We were when I attended. That and synchronized swimming.

Go Cats! This is fantastic! Winning six straight elimination games in basketball means national title.

prh · Post by **prh** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 9:49 am

JJ says Bannister was feeling the same yesterday as he usually does after a start, no issue with the arm. He said they'll continue to evaluate him. Said he is not ruled out.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 9:49 am

prh wrote:
Longhorned wrote:
Alieberman wrote:Are we now officially a baseball school?
I think we are the ones who decide that. It starts by unburying the Wildcat Baseball board out from under the "Other Arizona Sports" section. I think it would be awesome if we embraced the fervor that got going where the Ooh Ahh started it all. Put it in the main board index, maybe even at the top, and allow the fandom to explode around our winningest sport. Let's do it.
Completely agree. I think it's tough to say that when the number of people who care about baseball seems so much smaller than basketball/football. I ran into a Wildcat at the grocery store yesterday (Salt Lake City), we talked for a moment, and I asked about the CWS. "I'm not a baseball guy" well ok but if you're an Arizona guy, well, you should be. But oh well.

For anyone interested in what Coastal's fans are like, here is their very active baseball board. http://www.coastalfans.com/forum/index.php?board=6.0" target="_blank

Yeah, there's a couple of things in favor of changing that: 1) It's Arizona, and 2) Arizona Baseball is an awesome tradition of winning. So it doesn't matter if somebody is a "baseball guy." If he's a U of A guy, he'll be an Arizona Baseball guy if he's aware of what's going on. As an online community for Arizona Fans, I think we owe it to Arizona Fans to do what little we can to shine a light on our winning baseball program. What the heck else do we do that's good for anyone?

gumby · Post by **gumby** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 9:56 am

Eighth time in the finals. Won the last four after losing the first three.

2012 -- Arizona over South Carolina.

1986 -- Arizona over Florida State

1980 -- Arizona over Hawaii

1976 -- Arizona over Eastern Michigan

1963 -- USC over Arizona

1959 -- Oklahoma State over Arizona

1956 -- Minnesota over Arizona

Looking over the MOPs (for all teams), amazing how so few did anything in the majors.

http://www.collegesports-fans.com/colle ... nners.html" target="_blank

Irish27 · Post by **Irish27** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 10:21 am

Alieberman wrote:Are we now officially a baseball school?

We have definitely moved ahead of asu.

azcat49 · Post by **azcat49** » Sun Jun 26, 2016 11:00 am

Ooh ahh sock it to em wildcats. We are a baseball school, alwats have been in my eyes and I love it. Happy as punch about this year and the future.

16 is to 12 as 80 was to 76!

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