Gary Powers Quotes (70 Quotes)

We are not only going to compete on the field in a tough environment, the student standpoint is a big factor over the next couple of weeks as well as the baseball standpoint. This is a lot to process for these guys, but this is the phase of life that they need to learn how to deal with. It is a great learning experience for them and a tremendous challenge. But it is a challenge they have to learn how to succeed through.

That was huge because he does such a good job defensively to our outfield and he adds some speed to our offense, which we don't have a whole lot of. It was just the paperwork with the transfer.

To his credit, he came back in the seventh and stabilized things. He gave us a chance. It was a solid start.

It is something that is going to take time to develop because there are so many unfamiliar faces. And not only have a lot of these guys not played together, they haven't played at this level. How will they handle adversity How will they handle it individually and then as a team. Our older players have to provide that leadership.

We have to see how our guys are going to respond. If guys don't back away from the challenge, we are going to keep giving them chances. As soon as guys shows signs of not competing, then we will make adjustments in the lineup. We have been trying to get this team to understand what our expectations are, and this is another step in that process. Hopefully there aren't going to be too many more steps.

Stew was really the driving force behind it. He took the initiative and made contact with all the guys and stayed on it until he got the commitments. He has done a wonderful job getting this thing together.

This team has played hard (in) every game we have played in. We have been our own worst enemy. Today, we overcome some mistakes that we made and did a good job of picking one another up. That is how you get back in a groove -- by making up for mistakes by doing good things right after it.

I'll tell you what, we had way more than three errors today. They were pretty generous in the scoring on some of those. Until we can take an aggressive mentality to the field on defense, we are going to struggle. We just have some guys who are not making the adjustment to this level in that part of the game.

Winning and losing is a big part of what we do. But right now, in my opinion, it is not about that. It is all about how we accept the challenge of playing at this level. It is about accepting the challenge of playing the game against good competition.

He was missing his spots and that hurt him.

When he walked Christensen, I thought he had lost it. I let him stay for two more batters and got us in a jam.

It's probably tough to read the newspaper about five third-outs to end innings. But that's OK. Players should respond to that because it's the truth. If the truth hurts, then you have to do something about it so you don't have to read about it.

In all honesty, we scored seven runs and that should have been enough to win the game. I give them credit, though. They are a hot team right now and they did what they needed to do. They forced us to make plays and we didn't make them.

All three of our pitchers did a good job of pitching ahead in the count. All week, the bullpen really did a good job for us. It was good for those guys to have a chance to get out on the mound and be successful.

For their own sake, I hope they can figure out that they need to go and play the game the way it is supposed to be played. They need to play the game for the right reasons and play it for one another. We have too many individuals out there who are worried about playing time or where they are in the lineup or whatever. Most of (our problems), that is just thought-process stuff. These guys need to have the right game plan and be ready to play.

We're both in the same boat. Both teams are trying to get ready for their conference seasons and both teams are very young. This gives us an opportunity to just play some games.

He did more than he needed to do. He did the job because nobody could do the job (on Saturday). Unfortunately, he just gave up that key walk in the ninth that ended up being the winning run.

If we had more of a feel (on Saturday) for how it was going to play out, we probably could have gotten going with a late start on Saturday. But we didn't know that at the time.

Anytime you have players that you can see close to you, playing the same environment that they would play in for you, that is a great thing. This program offers a lot of opportunities for the local kids. Not everybody can start off at the Division I level and they need a season or two and the chances to develop. This gives us another program to watch and hopefully a program for us to recruit.

He probably could have played on Friday but we held him out because of the conditions. He's been champing at the bit to get a chance to play. He felt good and we tried to get him in today. We will gradually work him back into the other spot.