Please designate softball or baseball
by Otter (2023-03-09 13:20:45)

In reply to: Soul crushing.  posted by hibernianangst

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This is a dual use board. I saw your exasperation and had no idea who it was aimed at. In fact, in the whole thread the only way I knew it was softball was that someone noted that our opponent was Duke. A lot of us glance in here to see how the teams are doing. Please don't assume we know what you're talking about.

Yeah, thought he had the CWS year wrong or something *
by ndgotrobbedin97  (2023-03-10 23:39:44)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

I had the same reaction. *
by Dennis  (2023-03-10 00:30:16)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Okay. The tip was the 22 years of futility.
by hibernianangst  (2023-03-09 21:35:38)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Duke is in their 6th year of playing softball. Last year Duke, in their 5th season of fielding a team, won a Regional and advanced to a Super Regional.

Notre Dame has never won a Regional under a head coach that has been at Notre Dame 22 years.

So much for striving for excellence in all things. Whatever Notre Dame is doing with the softball program is not working and it needs to be overhauled. Softball players are by and large in Notre Dame's demographic wheelhouse but it seems nobody in the athletic administration gives a damn about excellence in the softball program.

My daughter plays high level club softball
by njnd96  (2023-03-10 17:17:50)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

There are plenty of girls that would crawl through glass to go to ND. It's amazing that they haven't been able to get more high level talent (especially pitchers) signed. For a sport that there is no real viable pro career, it's criminal for ND to not have a top flight team.