Hawkeyes whining about postseason baseball

[Remo Gaggi]

Some day, when he's still in Iowa City, at the bars until close, he can tell someone all about this.

And after he gets done running his mouth some guy will smash a empty beer pitcher over his head and Conman will blame a former Cyclone football player.

 

[Darius Bieber]

UTSA has a way better argument about missing the tournament but their Twitter didn't feel the need to post about it..

 

[1UNI2ISU]

What year did he take UNI to the World Series? I remember them getting into a regional.

He didn't. He went 1-2 in the Lincoln Regional in 2001.

Still a pretty amazing accomplishment at UNI when you consider what he had to work with.

 

[Cyismymonkey]

What year did he take UNI to the World Series? I remember them getting into a regional.

I stand corrected. Made the tournament did not make the series.

 

[chadly82]

His tweeting about this is an embarrassment!

He’s such a turd in the punch bowl

 

[ribsnwhiskey]

Iowa at this point would be better off dropping the baseball program like we did 2 decades ago. Sure, the rest of the Big 12 fans like to mock us for not having a baseball program, and while it would be kind of fun to once again have ISU baseball, at least we’re not wasting money on a dying sport that has no chance whatsoever of winning anything significant in the conference it’s currently in.

Dying sport?

 

[jdoggivjc]

Dying sport?

Yes. Baseball is a dying sport. Don't let your "God Bless America, the greatest country on the earth, and it's national pastime" blind you to the fact that with each and every passing generation fewer and fewer kids give a crap about baseball.

 

[CyCity]

Heller has missed 5 straight NCAAs and is still thought of as a good coach by their fans? I know Iowa's baseball program was really bad but jeez.

 

[CyCrazy]

Heller has missed 5 straight NCAAs and is still thought of as a good coach by their fans? I know Iowa's baseball program was really bad but jeez.

Well well well.

 

[nfrine]

Heller has missed 5 straight NCAAs and is still thought of as a good coach by their fans? I know Iowa's baseball program was really bad but jeez.

They still like Fran...right?

 

[ribsnwhiskey]

Yes. Baseball is a dying sport. Don't let your "God Bless America, the greatest country on the earth, and it's national pastime" blind you to the fact that with each and every passing generation fewer and fewer kids give a crap about baseball.

Fewer and fewer kids *don’t* give a crap about sports in general, jdogg.

 

[madguy30]

Fewer and fewer kids *don’t* give a crap about sports in general, jdogg.

Wouldn't be that fewer *do* give a crap?

 

[NWICY]

Glad to hear Heller is a great guy. One of my best friends has a son over their pitching. I think he's the number 2 guy. I'm embarrassed to say I haven't gone to a game. I would actually buy a hawk baseball shirt.

Now don't go all crazy on us!

 

[ribsnwhiskey]

Wouldn't be that fewer *do* give a crap?

I guess so. I don’t however, give a crap. I just found calling baseball a dying sport funny.

 

[LarryISU]

All the sports news reports say NC State was the best team left out. And even Rutgers > Iowa. What possible argument is there really?

 

[Doug Piranha]

Heller has missed 5 straight NCAAs and is still thought of as a good coach by their fans? I know Iowa's baseball program was really bad but jeez.

 

[Cyismymonkey]

They still like Fran...right?

Fran the Mediocre?

 

[CySmurf]

Most all the good teams are in the South.
The Big 10 was down this year.
South teams (particularly the teams from the SEC and Big 12) won't schedule Big 10 teams because they have nothing to gain by doing so. In many cases it hurts their strength of schedule if they did play a Big 10 team.
Tough luck. Better luck next year! Lol

 

[jmb]

Now don't go all crazy on us!

He didn’t say what he would use it for.

 

[KidSilverhair]

Heller is a hell of a baseball coach, and EIU is his dream job, he is going no where. He started at Upper Iowa, then moved to UNI, when they dropped the program, he moved to S. Illinois I believe before EIU hired him.
He has won everywhere he has coached and was 2nd in line for the job when they hired the guy before him.

Now with ISU and UNI not having teams, he can bring in the best players from Iowa without any competition, and continue to build up the program. It also helps that every other school in the conference, has the same weather conditions, no school gets an advantage by playing in warmer weather than the rest of the conference. It comes done to talent and coaching, not whether is snowing or not.

It was Indiana State between UNI and Iowa.

I went to elementary/high school with Rick, played Babe Ruth baseball and high school football/baseball with him. He’s a good dude, and a coaching career in sports is, like, his dream job.