Bob Todd Quotations

Let me just say that when the score was 7-2, our players competed, especially our hitters. I was glad to see that at the end.

Iroquois is a very talented, athletic squad. Iroquois is so quick.

I thought Josh Barrera did a very, very good job as a starter tonight.

It is a tremendous honor for him and very well deserved. What he did as a player here was simply amazing. His mention on the initial ballot is great for our program and for this university.

Our fans, as far as I'm concerned, are very knowledgeable and they do a tremendous job of supporting Ohio State baseball. Believe me, our players recognize it and they are very appreciative. There is no doubt that it is a plus for us to play at home.

We had one bad weekend and we felt this team was gonna show the character it had to rebound and it did.

We end up with a couple two-out hits tonight that we didn't get this past weekend. And the one error that they made really was a momentum changer.

We have been playing our best ball. But the LIT shakes out who is playing the most consistent.

Bill Davis Stadium has been ranked as one of the best college baseball stadiums in the country and I think Ohio State fans have done a great job creating an extremely positive atmosphere. I can't believe it is the 10th season.

Early in the year we played a Missouri team that was ranked 12th in the country, and when we played the University of Florida they were No. 1 in the country. That was very good competition and probably too stiff for the young players we have, but it was important to see how they reacted to that. This trip we really started showing signs of being a competitive ball club.

We were in need of a potential back-up catcher, but we also knew that he was pretty versatile. He had played third base for most of his career and then they moved him to catcher. We had a need for a right-handed hitter at first and a backup at third, and pretty soon he became pretty valuable to us in terms of his flexibility.

There are just a lot of good squads out there all over the state. There's some good competition in Kentucky.

Actually, we had exactly the same game plan as Saturday, except we executed better.

There's guys hitting at the lower end of our order here hitting seventh, eighth and ninth that when they were in high school were their No. 3 hitter and were their star high school player.

If Jack Nicklaus had a 1-wood, I think he would have had trouble getting it out of here.

Any time you have your returning starters back, you like to think that is a positive. You like to be able to rely on their experience to help lead this ball club. All of our starting infielders were in double-digits in errors and I would like to think we are going to become much more stable defensively.

Absolutely, this is a game the (NCAA) selection committee would look at if it came down to determining whether we deserve to be in the tournament.

If you talk to our players, they'll tell you that they love playing at Bill Davis Stadium. Our fans do a good job of creating a great atmosphere here, and the players love playing here.

It looked serious. She's injured that ankle before. Hopefully everything will be OK.

It's like a little early state tournament. There are so many good squads in this tournament. How fun.

They didn't have an answer for her. She was throwing the whole arsenal at them tonight.

We've been swinging the bats well up and down the lineup. Everyone's been contributing. We're coming up with some big two-out hits, and it's someone new every ball game. And that's the way you generate some offense and score some runs.

We hit the ball hard but right at people. Other times, we?d get momentum and shoot ourselves in the foot.

It was the best game. I didn't think I would ever get back to Louisville, and I didn't care because I was in basketball hog heaven. It was a great game, and they have a great program.

This was a tough day to play, especially with the wind conditions. Today was a good test of attitude and staying focused.

They really needed to address this completely, not halfway. We'll just have to let this play out and see what it does.