Rick Jones
Rick Jones
defense everybody football helps offense special supposed team teams
That's the way a football team is supposed to work. The defense helps special teams, special teams helps the offense, and the offense helps the defense. Everybody helps each other. That's really the way it is when it's working well, and it was working well (Friday).
ball defense shy taking team transition
We play defense very well and transition well. The other thing we do well is taking the ball off opponent's feet. Our team doesn't shy away from that.
freshmen lights nice number team top
The freshmen are the lights at the top of the tree. We have a really nice team that does a number of things very well.
advantage balls base bullpen chance couple effort guys late left less moral needed pitch pleased third took win
We did not pitch as well out of the bullpen as we needed to. We left some balls up, and they took advantage of it. We had a chance to win late and didn't, and we left a couple of guys at third base with less than two out. I was pleased with our effort today, but there are no moral victories.
add becomes game love scheduling three
Every game becomes more important now, which isn't all bad, but scheduling can become more of a challenge. I'd love to see us add another three (conference) games, somehow.
coming
Expectations were set pretty aggressively coming into the quarter.
advantage good inability job taking throw
We did a good job of taking advantage of their inability to throw strikes.
baseball
I'd be disappointed if we're not a four-bid league, if not a five-bid league. This is a big-time baseball league.
computers five last wish
We won't always make it in five years but that's the goal. Computers will last more than five years. Some are now 8 to 10 years old and we actually wish they would die.
attendance based believe nationals opportunity past providing special tremendous washington
We're appreciative of the Washington Nationals for providing us with a tremendous venue. And I believe we have an opportunity from an attendance standpoint, based on past history, to do some special things this spring.
good hoping night
I was hoping to have a night like this so we could get a feel for what we could be if we put it all together. We got a good feel.
again calls fairly happen receiving record sending talking thousands track
It doesn't happen that often, and again if you're talking about sending out and receiving hundreds of thousands of notification calls for a week, the track record is fairly good.
baseball college five leagues top tremendous turned
I think it's turned into one of the top five leagues in college baseball. There is just a lot of tremendous tradition.
happiness happy
I was real happy with how Brandon Gomes pitched. He just got tired.