A Sea Of Red

University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida


USF Baseball Official Site



USF Baseball Stadium
Opened in 2011 - Seats 3211



Mark Kingston
2nd Season as USF Head Coach

USF had the number 9 ranked recruiting class in the country this past year. Projected 4th or 5th in what should be a good AAC this year. League projected to get 3-4 teams in post season (Houston, Tulane, ECU, and either USF or UConn). Got a couple of very talented outfielders. Nice test to start season vs a team that has certainly been outdoors a lot more than us. And on grass. Took us a couple of weekends, each of the last 2 years, to make the adjustment to grass. Then it was a non-issue the rest of year..Ready to get this going. Be interesting to see if we go with a "Power Righty" rotation to start season, or run 2 left-handers out there on Saturday and Sunday.

This weekend's starters:
Fri - Carson Herndon
Sat - Victor Cole
Sun - Michael Stafford

Flames Nation News wrote:This weekend's starters:
Fri - Carson Herndon
Sat - Victor Cole
Sun - Michael Stafford

Toman said he was going with experienced starters to start with, but I think he likes a couple of the young arms a lot. Interesting choice of Stafford over Bean. I wonder of that means he is looking at Parker as a closer

olldflame wrote:

Flames Nation News wrote:This weekend's starters:
Fri - Carson Herndon
Sat - Victor Cole
Sun - Michael Stafford

Toman said he was going with experienced starters to start with, but I think he likes a couple of the young arms a lot. Interesting choice of Stafford over Bean. I wonder of that means he is looking at Parker as a closer

Or midweek starter!?

Midweek starter is an important position for us trying to pick up big non-conference wins to impress selection committee.

I really think Bean would be a better fit as midweek starter than closer. He had a really bad time last year finding the strike zone and he doesn't have an "out pitch" or weird delivery that effective closers have.

I heard tonight that one of our pitchers suffered a broken leg today. I don't know any facts thus I refrain from saying who.

But I hope I was given false information.

Any more info on the injury ballcoach referred to?

It was Zach Clinton. He suffered a fractured fibula throwing a bull pen session. He will take a medical red shirt this season.

The season has started. Down 1-0 in the first

6-0 in 2nd not the best start.

Herndon did not get out of the 2nd. He did lose a 3-2 count w/ 2outs when it was just 1 to 0.

Andrew w/ a slam to tie it at 6!

Boom!

Yacik with a Grand Slam and we are tied at 6

We better have yacyk hits 20 this year. Not sure anyone else will more than 3 or 4.

Purchased the feed. No HD. Poor camera work. Cameras slow to pickup the ball.

Lots of USF's hits seem to have eyes, going through the infield on the ground.

9-8 Flames have the lead in the 7th

So artis is a stud. We're finding out about our bullpen right now. Im not sold on stroosma or allen but we will see.

jinxy wrote:We better have yacyk hits 20 this year. Not sure anyone else will more than 3 or 4.

\He has 2 tonight Flames take lead in 9th 10-9

Yacyk has 2 dingers already... and its only the first game.

First poor managing job by toman of the year. Gamble was clearly spent and got stretched too far.

Toman 0 and 1 to start the season. Completely mismanaged the 9th and wasted an incredible performance from yacyk.

Tough way to lose after fighting back. It is a long season but hate to see us give games away.