June 19, 2025 • 13 mins
Craig talks about last nights game between LSU and Arkansas in the MCWS. He also mentions how there is similarities in Coastal Carolina and the old Texas Longhorn baseball teams hes covered.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To talk college baseball will do that. The National Championship
Series between Coastal Carolina and LSU is all set. In
fact on the text line, our friend Seatpal said, Coastal
hits well, not a lot of it, not a lot
of home runs. It seems you're exactly right, Seatpale, And
(00:22):
I like the comparison that Kyle Peterson made last night
he was on Sports Center with Scott Van Pelt, which
I think, by the way, just my own personal perspective,
is one of the best things that ESPN even does.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
There's a lot that they've for want of a better term,
sunk to that I don't like, But there are some
things they still do. Sports Center is one of those,
and Scott Van Pelt doing it, I think is tremendous.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I think his program is as good as they have.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
But he had Kyle Peterson on from the booth right
after that wild finish to the LSU Arkansas game, and
he asked him about those those, you know, the big
plays in there, and Vehava Alloy not starting what could
(01:15):
have been should have been really a game ending six
four to three double play to extend it to one
more game today instead opting to go to third, and
then the fly ball that Davelon slipped going forward and
glanced off of him and it brought him the tying runs,
and then da van Horn's decision to have to pitch
(01:39):
to Jared Jones, the best hitter for LSU, and he
drives home the game winning run. He asked him about
all those things, but then he asked him about the
two teams that are left in that are still standing
in the College World Series, and he talked about LSU
(02:00):
and said, because van Pell asked him a kind of
a leading question, but Vampelt was exactly right on point
when he said it. This isn't your typical LSU team,
is it? And he said, no, not really. They hit
a little less, but they still hit. They have two
outstanding starting pitchers and then a collection of guys, and
(02:25):
they have an outstanding closer and a collection of guys
like a lot of teams go to mom And then
he asked him about Coastal Carolina and he said, does
this team remind you of anybody?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And he said, yeah, it does.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
It reminds me of some of the teams Augie Gurrito
brought here both when he was at cal State Fullerton
and then at Texas, teams that just.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Did everything well.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
They weren't necessarily spectacular at anything, but did everything well,
hit well, enough, a little bit of power, pitched really well,
and played defense really really well. And when you add
all that up, you got a shot to win. You
(03:11):
had a chance to win that. And when I think
back to his two national championship teams at Texas two
and five, and even if you want to include the
teams that didn't win it but were there, his first
one in two thousand was built largely on pitching and defense.
They pulled off a big surprise winning a regional out
(03:34):
in Tempee against a heavily favored Arizona State team, and
they had to come through the losers bracket to do it,
went home, and they would have had to go to
North Carolina for the Super Regional, except Carolina was upset
by Penn State, and so Penn State, which had not
submitted a bid to Hoe even host, came to Austin
(03:55):
and Texas swept him, and then went to Omaha and
lost LSU in Florida State in their season was over,
but it was a team that was kind of ahead
of itself in the program. The next year, in OH one,
they got to the regional against Stamford and they actually
beat Stamford in the second game, but lost two heartbreaking
one run games. It's very similar to David Pearce's first
(04:18):
season at Texas in seventeen when the Long Runs went
out to the Long Beach Regional and won their first
two games to beat UCLA, and then they beat the
host Long Beach, but then to get into the championship round,
lost two one run ball games to Long Beach, including
an extra innings game. So it was very similar to
that in one Stamford, but two Logie's first national championship
(04:38):
team in Texas. And remember he already run won three
at Fullerton seventy nine, eighty four, and ninety five, and
he had guys like Mark Cottsey, and he had some
tremendous players, Phil Nevin who played for him on those
Fullerton teams. But his teams were built on pitching in
(05:00):
defense and speed and creating runs, winning the inning. That's
what he wanted to win the inning, and this Coastal
team does a lot of that. In O two, his
first national championship team, it had more power. It had
Jeff Hanavirs who could hit home runs. It had Tim
Moss who had one hundred hit season. It had guys
(05:23):
like Eric Saltemeyer and j D. Reneger who could hit
home runs. They had incredible defense with Joe Farren the
Iowa State transplant after i was stated shut down its
collegiate baseball program after ninety nine, and Farren transferred to
Texas and was a fixture for the Longhorns in the
(05:44):
outfield along with Kalinning Napoleon. So those guys, but they
had They had a lot of pitching and defense. He
had Justin Simmons, the Big twelve pitcher of the year
that year, Jessin Merle. They they had a lot of
good guys, but they had some power too, and they
won in two and three. They went back with kind
(06:04):
of a similar team, and of course they had to
Houston Street as a freshman in two was the outstanding
player in Omaha. Went back in three and lost twice
to Rice that ended up winning the national championship. In four,
they really had cruised had not dropped a single game
in the post season, similar to what Coastal and LSU
(06:25):
have done. Coastal LSU dropped one game in the regional
and got all the way to the National Championship and
ran into the brick wall that cal State Fullerton had
with Jason Windsor and Ricky Romero, two great starting pitchers,
and they won both games, and they won the national
championship in five. When Texas came back, it was a
(06:46):
team that was one of those teams, like what was
spoken by Kyle Peterson, built on pitching and defense in
clutch play, a clutch hit here, a big out there,
will kroutch with a big home run in a series
up in Lincoln against Nebraska. Nick Peeple's great defense in
(07:07):
the outfield and can come up with a huge play.
Seth Johnston who batted over four hundred versus of the
entire season and was a staple there at shortstop. And
then David Morol who was hitting I believe two to
six for the season going in Omaha, and he was
the outstanding player in the College World Series because he
had two home runs and was just lights out. And
that's what Omaha can do four teams. It can also
(07:30):
do two teams what it did to Arkansas last night.
Omaha can be both a magical in a strange place
for that. But that team was built on all of
those things that Kyle Peterson talked about in five. In nine,
when they went back lost in the National Championship round
the LSU, it was built on that, plus the pitching
(07:53):
that they had a Taylor Youngman. Great team at nine
easily the best team not to get tomahaas the twenty
ten team where Youngman was the Golden Spikes Award winner
and the Dick Hows Award winner National Player of the
Year winner. Texas went twenty four and three in conference play,
which is still the best mark ever in Big twelve play.
(08:17):
But Jim Slosnago brought a TCU team down that was
really really good and had a fantastic left he named
Matt Perk, and they got to a final game and
He's won that game, and they went on Omaha Texas.
Then when next went back in fourteen and got to
the semifinals, lost to a Vanderbilt team that had Carson Fulmer, and.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
They had.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Just great pitching and defense and timely hitting as well.
Walker Buller was on that team. He didn't pitch against Texas,
but he was on that teav pitched in Omaha for
that and Dan spy Swanson was the shortstop on that team,
so it was it was a great Vanderbilt team that
beat him and went on and won the national championship.
(09:03):
That was in fourteen, and then the next time they
went back was in eighteen when I was talking about
and they went in eighteen, and they went in twenty
one and twenty two, and they've been to Omaha more
than any other program. But this year it's either going
to be it will either be Coastal Carolina or LSU.
LSU in search of its eighth national title, Coastal in
(09:28):
search of its second winning the first time they went there,
and that's the only other time they've been there was
twenty sixteen and they won the national championship.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So it should be a really good.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Climactic inn to the college baseball season when those two
get together in Omahai and it'll.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Start on Saturday night. And Kyle Peterson made a very
good point on this KP. He said that.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
This is setting up the way it should be in
that both teams are able to get through it without
dropping a game.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
So they have two full days off.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I'm sure they had an off site light workout, having
been there when Texas was in that national championship.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Scene. I can tell you.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You get away from that, you have a couple of
days off and they would have an off site practice
pretty much a light workout, take some VP ground balls,
nothing real heavy duty, and then they come back another
workout day before the championship and they have the pre
Championship Series news conference as well, and then everybody's well rested.
(10:41):
They got all of their you might say, all of
their bullets available for them, all with their starting pitching
rotation set up to go the way it's gone for
them throughout all this Coastal has won twenty six straight games.
That's a record for most consecutive wins by a team
(11:04):
entering the Championship Series. The record was eighteen in a
row by USC, but that was in nineteen forty eight
when it was an eight team field. Might even have
just been a fourteen field that year in forty eight.
It started in forty seven in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Texas was
in that first one as well, and forty eight might
(11:29):
also been a fourteen field. They went to the eighteen
field in forty nine in Wichita, when Texas won its
first national title and the first of back to backs.
They won the last one that wasn't in Omaha nineteen
forty nine in Wichita, and then won the first one
in Omaha in nineteen fifty.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
In that year, Jim.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Earler pitched a no hitter against Tufts, and it was
the first of now three no hitters to have been
pitched in the College World Series. The other two were
pitched by guys who played on teams that did not
end up winning the national title. In nineteen sixty, Jim
Wixon did it for Oklahoma State, and Oklahoma State was
(12:12):
the defending national champion. They'd won it all in fifty nine.
They were the defending national champion sixty, but they did
not win it. And of course, just the other day,
the no hit or thrown by gage Wood, and he
was one hit batter shy of a perfect game. He
hit a Murray State batter in the eighth inning. Other
(12:35):
than that, he retired everybody else he faced and struck
out nineteen guys and through the third no hitter in
College World Series history. However, Arkansas, by virtue of losing
last night, will not get a chance to capitalize on
that and play for national title. You know, if Arkansas
had won that game last night and came back. It
(12:56):
would have been interesting to see if Dave Van Horn
would have looked to gauge Withood because he had just
pitched Tuesday. Would have been just a little bit of
rest of you that maybe not start him a pitcher
on the side if he needed an innying out of him,
but would almost certainly would have been his Game one
starter had he not pitched, and say Arkansas would had
they won last night and then one again the day,
(13:17):
he probably would have started winning Game one of the
championship series. And Zach Rude had just pitched on Tuesday Wednesday,
so it would have been interesting to see how that
would have wound up. All right, there's a Momahaw perspective.
If we got some more in the NBA coming up
when we continue on thirteen under the Zone
To talk college baseball will do that. The National Championship
Series between Coastal Carolina and LSU is all set. In
fact on the text line, our friend Seatpal said, Coastal
hits well, not a lot of it, not a lot
of home runs. It seems you're exactly right, Seatpale, And
(00:22):
I like the comparison that Kyle Peterson made last night
he was on Sports Center with Scott Van Pelt, which
I think, by the way, just my own personal perspective,
is one of the best things that ESPN even does.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
There's a lot that they've for want of a better term,
sunk to that I don't like, But there are some
things they still do. Sports Center is one of those,
and Scott Van Pelt doing it, I think is tremendous.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I think his program is as good as they have.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
But he had Kyle Peterson on from the booth right
after that wild finish to the LSU Arkansas game, and
he asked him about those those, you know, the big
plays in there, and Vehava Alloy not starting what could
(01:15):
have been should have been really a game ending six
four to three double play to extend it to one
more game today instead opting to go to third, and
then the fly ball that Davelon slipped going forward and
glanced off of him and it brought him the tying runs,
and then da van Horn's decision to have to pitch
(01:39):
to Jared Jones, the best hitter for LSU, and he
drives home the game winning run. He asked him about
all those things, but then he asked him about the
two teams that are left in that are still standing
in the College World Series, and he talked about LSU
(02:00):
and said, because van Pell asked him a kind of
a leading question, but Vampelt was exactly right on point
when he said it. This isn't your typical LSU team,
is it? And he said, no, not really. They hit
a little less, but they still hit. They have two
outstanding starting pitchers and then a collection of guys, and
(02:25):
they have an outstanding closer and a collection of guys
like a lot of teams go to mom And then
he asked him about Coastal Carolina and he said, does
this team remind you of anybody?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
And he said, yeah, it does.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
It reminds me of some of the teams Augie Gurrito
brought here both when he was at cal State Fullerton
and then at Texas, teams that just.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Did everything well.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
They weren't necessarily spectacular at anything, but did everything well,
hit well, enough, a little bit of power, pitched really well,
and played defense really really well. And when you add
all that up, you got a shot to win. You
(03:11):
had a chance to win that. And when I think
back to his two national championship teams at Texas two
and five, and even if you want to include the
teams that didn't win it but were there, his first
one in two thousand was built largely on pitching and defense.
They pulled off a big surprise winning a regional out
(03:34):
in Tempee against a heavily favored Arizona State team, and
they had to come through the losers bracket to do it,
went home, and they would have had to go to
North Carolina for the Super Regional, except Carolina was upset
by Penn State, and so Penn State, which had not
submitted a bid to Hoe even host, came to Austin
(03:55):
and Texas swept him, and then went to Omaha and
lost LSU in Florida State in their season was over,
but it was a team that was kind of ahead
of itself in the program. The next year, in OH one,
they got to the regional against Stamford and they actually
beat Stamford in the second game, but lost two heartbreaking
one run games. It's very similar to David Pearce's first
(04:18):
season at Texas in seventeen when the Long Runs went
out to the Long Beach Regional and won their first
two games to beat UCLA, and then they beat the
host Long Beach, but then to get into the championship round,
lost two one run ball games to Long Beach, including
an extra innings game. So it was very similar to
that in one Stamford, but two Logie's first national championship
(04:38):
team in Texas. And remember he already run won three
at Fullerton seventy nine, eighty four, and ninety five, and
he had guys like Mark Cottsey, and he had some
tremendous players, Phil Nevin who played for him on those
Fullerton teams. But his teams were built on pitching in
(05:00):
defense and speed and creating runs, winning the inning. That's
what he wanted to win the inning, and this Coastal
team does a lot of that. In O two, his
first national championship team, it had more power. It had
Jeff Hanavirs who could hit home runs. It had Tim
Moss who had one hundred hit season. It had guys
(05:23):
like Eric Saltemeyer and j D. Reneger who could hit
home runs. They had incredible defense with Joe Farren the
Iowa State transplant after i was stated shut down its
collegiate baseball program after ninety nine, and Farren transferred to
Texas and was a fixture for the Longhorns in the
(05:44):
outfield along with Kalinning Napoleon. So those guys, but they
had They had a lot of pitching and defense. He
had Justin Simmons, the Big twelve pitcher of the year
that year, Jessin Merle. They they had a lot of
good guys, but they had some power too, and they
won in two and three. They went back with kind
(06:04):
of a similar team, and of course they had to
Houston Street as a freshman in two was the outstanding
player in Omaha. Went back in three and lost twice
to Rice that ended up winning the national championship. In four,
they really had cruised had not dropped a single game
in the post season, similar to what Coastal and LSU
(06:25):
have done. Coastal LSU dropped one game in the regional
and got all the way to the National Championship and
ran into the brick wall that cal State Fullerton had
with Jason Windsor and Ricky Romero, two great starting pitchers,
and they won both games, and they won the national
championship in five. When Texas came back, it was a
(06:46):
team that was one of those teams, like what was
spoken by Kyle Peterson, built on pitching and defense in
clutch play, a clutch hit here, a big out there,
will kroutch with a big home run in a series
up in Lincoln against Nebraska. Nick Peeple's great defense in
(07:07):
the outfield and can come up with a huge play.
Seth Johnston who batted over four hundred versus of the
entire season and was a staple there at shortstop. And
then David Morol who was hitting I believe two to
six for the season going in Omaha, and he was
the outstanding player in the College World Series because he
had two home runs and was just lights out. And
that's what Omaha can do four teams. It can also
(07:30):
do two teams what it did to Arkansas last night.
Omaha can be both a magical in a strange place
for that. But that team was built on all of
those things that Kyle Peterson talked about in five. In nine,
when they went back lost in the National Championship round
the LSU, it was built on that, plus the pitching
(07:53):
that they had a Taylor Youngman. Great team at nine
easily the best team not to get tomahaas the twenty
ten team where Youngman was the Golden Spikes Award winner
and the Dick Hows Award winner National Player of the
Year winner. Texas went twenty four and three in conference play,
which is still the best mark ever in Big twelve play.
(08:17):
But Jim Slosnago brought a TCU team down that was
really really good and had a fantastic left he named
Matt Perk, and they got to a final game and
He's won that game, and they went on Omaha Texas.
Then when next went back in fourteen and got to
the semifinals, lost to a Vanderbilt team that had Carson Fulmer, and.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
They had.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Just great pitching and defense and timely hitting as well.
Walker Buller was on that team. He didn't pitch against Texas,
but he was on that teav pitched in Omaha for
that and Dan spy Swanson was the shortstop on that team,
so it was it was a great Vanderbilt team that
beat him and went on and won the national championship.
(09:03):
That was in fourteen, and then the next time they
went back was in eighteen when I was talking about
and they went in eighteen, and they went in twenty
one and twenty two, and they've been to Omaha more
than any other program. But this year it's either going
to be it will either be Coastal Carolina or LSU.
LSU in search of its eighth national title, Coastal in
(09:28):
search of its second winning the first time they went there,
and that's the only other time they've been there was
twenty sixteen and they won the national championship.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So it should be a really good.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Climactic inn to the college baseball season when those two
get together in Omahai and it'll.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Start on Saturday night. And Kyle Peterson made a very
good point on this KP. He said that.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
This is setting up the way it should be in
that both teams are able to get through it without
dropping a game.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
So they have two full days off.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I'm sure they had an off site light workout, having
been there when Texas was in that national championship.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Scene. I can tell you.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You get away from that, you have a couple of
days off and they would have an off site practice
pretty much a light workout, take some VP ground balls,
nothing real heavy duty, and then they come back another
workout day before the championship and they have the pre
Championship Series news conference as well, and then everybody's well rested.
(10:41):
They got all of their you might say, all of
their bullets available for them, all with their starting pitching
rotation set up to go the way it's gone for
them throughout all this Coastal has won twenty six straight games.
That's a record for most consecutive wins by a team
(11:04):
entering the Championship Series. The record was eighteen in a
row by USC, but that was in nineteen forty eight
when it was an eight team field. Might even have
just been a fourteen field that year in forty eight.
It started in forty seven in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Texas was
in that first one as well, and forty eight might
(11:29):
also been a fourteen field. They went to the eighteen
field in forty nine in Wichita, when Texas won its
first national title and the first of back to backs.
They won the last one that wasn't in Omaha nineteen
forty nine in Wichita, and then won the first one
in Omaha in nineteen fifty.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
In that year, Jim.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Earler pitched a no hitter against Tufts, and it was
the first of now three no hitters to have been
pitched in the College World Series. The other two were
pitched by guys who played on teams that did not
end up winning the national title. In nineteen sixty, Jim
Wixon did it for Oklahoma State, and Oklahoma State was
(12:12):
the defending national champion. They'd won it all in fifty nine.
They were the defending national champion sixty, but they did
not win it. And of course, just the other day,
the no hit or thrown by gage Wood, and he
was one hit batter shy of a perfect game. He
hit a Murray State batter in the eighth inning. Other
(12:35):
than that, he retired everybody else he faced and struck
out nineteen guys and through the third no hitter in
College World Series history. However, Arkansas, by virtue of losing
last night, will not get a chance to capitalize on
that and play for national title. You know, if Arkansas
had won that game last night and came back. It
(12:56):
would have been interesting to see if Dave Van Horn
would have looked to gauge Withood because he had just
pitched Tuesday. Would have been just a little bit of
rest of you that maybe not start him a pitcher
on the side if he needed an innying out of him,
but would almost certainly would have been his Game one
starter had he not pitched, and say Arkansas would had
they won last night and then one again the day,
(13:17):
he probably would have started winning Game one of the
championship series. And Zach Rude had just pitched on Tuesday Wednesday,
so it would have been interesting to see how that
would have wound up. All right, there's a Momahaw perspective.
If we got some more in the NBA coming up
when we continue on thirteen under the Zone
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