Buddy Gouldsmith Quotations

Maybe we needed that kind of tail kicking to wake us up.

Certainly, if you ask me, I'd rather be 8-4 than 4-8, but we've played a great schedule. We've played some real good clubs both historically and currently; teams that have played in Omaha and that consistently play in the postseason.

Keith has been coming through for us consistently, but we need somebody else to step up. I think our best baseball is ahead of us, but we can't do it with one guy. We need to have a second guy come around and help carry us.

Matt has a tendency not to loosen up at times because of the surgery. I thought he was loose when he went out there today. He got to a point that things began to tighten a bit. He felt like he couldn't let it go.

Part of the reason that we scheduled them ... was to excite people in our community about college baseball. I think people are excited about it, and I think we've got a chance to have a great crowd and gain a lot of community support.

Jim is a good friend of mine, but we want to beat their tail off just like anybody else we play.

It is a tough schedule. But if we can maintain a high level of attention to detail, I think we're going to win a lot of games and be very successful.

I think he's comfortable with his role for this team right now. But he is part of the future of this program, and it's nice to see that he was able to perform when given an opportunity today.

Keith's a contact guy and one thing he won't do is strike out. I didn't want us to go down swinging in that situation. I wanted contact, but I didn't know he was going to hit a grand slam.

I think we've got a couple guys in the middle of that lineup who could show some power in Bonnell and Miller.

I think it's bothering him a little bit at the plate. Mike's playing through it. To his credit, he goes out there and guts it out every day. He puts a lot of pressure on himself to succeed, but he's our guy and we're going to roll with him.

Whether everybody who shows up is rooting for the Rebels or not, I don't know, but certainly it will be exciting. I would imagine they would (travel well) coming off a national championship ... and just because of some of the momentum that their athletic department has.

We gave up some runs early and I thought, here we go again. The only bright side of it was when we're in our park and the wind is blowing, I always feel like we've got a chance.

Michael is obviously our future behind the plate.

We still have to wait for a final decision from the NCAA. I thought it would come probably 10 days ago, but obviously they're not in a hurry because it doesn't mean as much to them.

You have got to win games, no doubt about it. There's no remedy like winning. We thought Friday's win (6-5 in 12 innings) would spearhead that. We thought we would come out and swing the bats the next couple of games, and we haven't done that.

We have to get a quality start out of Tabor. Our bullpen has worked hard and we need to get five or six innings out of him and only give up two or three runs.

We've got to find a way to put the ball in play. We struck out 23 times in two days, and that is not tolerable.

We've had opportunities to score and we've been in every game through the seventh inning. We haven't been able to get the timely hits. When you're not scoring runs, everything is magnified.

Braden got ahead in the count and that's a situation where he can really be aggressive and look for a fastball.

With any luck at all, this will be the turning point in our season and we can continue to play well.

It's tough for guys who are as competitive as McCulloch is to stay focused when they are up 10-0. It's tough for him to pitch in that situation, but we took advantage of the opportunities they gave us.

It's tough, after we scratched back. We have been giving up momentum runs. You score, you have to answer with a zero, and we did not do that.

Calvin's a well-rounded player. We can put him at the top of our order and he brings speed to the team.

As he gets more experience, he's going to get better and better. I think he's still getting used to the speed of the game a little bit.

The greatest thing about it is you had an energetic crowd and we played well, so hopefully we can get a lot of those people back out.

I certainly don't want to take any credit away from him. He must have been doing something. But I just didn't feel like we competed at all.