I now get 17 years of Gumpf vs 23 total not making it past
by Domerduck (2018-05-20 17:23:02)

In reply to: 17 years of experience & expecting a different result.  posted by hibernianangst

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regionals and 20 straight. As much as we want ND to be great I am not sure you can get many top players to ND being in the ACC so I think she is doing as well as she can. Softball is dominated by the SEC and the PAC12 with Oklahoma & FSU being the only exceptions that are keeping up with them. The Big 10 is even falling off with no teams getting to host this year. She put together a tough schedule and was the only other ACC NCAA qualifier besides FSU despite not ending up 2nd in the conference. 17 straight years by Gumpf leading her team to the NCAA's is not something to take lightly.

I do agree the number of stolen bases is ridiculous and they need to fix that.

This reads like something Jack Swarbrick would say.
by hibernianangst  (2018-05-20 17:42:38)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

This is a loser's mentality. You get what you tolerate and deserve.

EDIT: If the attitude is we can't win then drop the damned charade and cut baseball and softball. Then ND can add women's hockey.
Jack should fix baseball, women's lacrosse, & football
by Domerduck  (2018-05-20 19:07:27)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

where his terrible hires are embarrassing the university by their perfomance or history of cheating and vacated wins. Gumpf clearly isn't McGraw but she was here before Jack and her teams do not embarrass ND. In fact there are 13 other ACC teams that would trade places with ND in softball. This year ND did even better than any Big 10 team in softball in the NCAA's and knocked out their regular season champion with the sport's winningest coach. They also did better than every other Big 12 team not named Oklahoma.

I truly doubt Jack would be able to hire someone better than Deanna given his track record. Maybe you are smart enough to do that. Also maybe you would have had a trigger finger getting rid of Mike Brey when in his first 14 years his teams were a bit of a disappointment until he used the ACC's competitiveness to help them get to the elite 8 two years in a row. Now we all love him which I always did. I don't apologize for respecting and supporting coaches like him and Deanna who win and bring honor to the university even if they haven't won it all (which only ND women;s basketball, fencing, and soccer have done since the 90's).

As for adding a women's hockey team, we don't need to drop softball to do that so why don't we just do it. If you think we should drop baseball I am OK with that, but I do like ND's women's softball team and think we should keep at it.