Up to this point we have played a very soft schedule and our stats are skewed by those games. Seton Hall (13 runs vs low level team), Southern Utah (7 runs, 5-17 in Big Sky horrible conference) CSU Bakersfield (6 runs, 4-17 in the WAC who is laughable), Coppin State (11 runs and 10 runs, they are 2-18 overall in horrible conference) East TN (13 runs vs 12-16 low level conference). UVA (25 runs, 11-18 one of worst teams in ACC)

Now look at run production vs good teams.FSU - 3 games 7 runs total, Notre Dame 2 runs total in two games, USC 3 runs. The only outlier is UNC with 18 runs but again that is skewed by one game with 13, two others total 5 runs).

Our schedule is weak at the beginning of the year. Pretty much always is with an exceptions here and there where we play a top team in a tourney (I think last year or year before we played a couple of top teams in an early tourney).

It's not hard to run up scores and stats against very bad competition. What really strikes me is how many runs we gave up in those games.

However, if anyone thinks the two new pitchers are going to save us, you are mistaken. It will take them time to adjust and they are basically going to waste their entire summer playing for the Starz organization. In my years of coaching showcase, I have not run across another coach in VA, NC, and SC who makes their players leave the team that developed them and go to another team for one year, especially to an organization that has gone through so much turmoil in the last few years. I am sure there may be one or two but it is an unusal practice. I have talked about that before so no need to rehash but suffice to say, most travel ball coaches dislike Thomas and do not push players his way.

Your point is we are in good shape. I disagree. Thomas is viewed poorly by the travel coaches in VA. He rarely goes to travel tourneys where you see how a player performs vs great competition. He recruits based on high school performance which is not a good indicator due to home cooking stats. His record in what is otherwise a mid tier conference is average. He hasn't been a regular in tourney action.

In last seven to eight years, how many players have been first team all ACC (honest question - I don't know answer)? Off top of may head I can think of three recent (McGoldrick , Duff (think also freshman player of year?), Tyler) Again ACC is pretty weak conference overall (Irish and FSU only really good teams, and in fairness, UNC may be in that conversation). A program in good shape which is developing players should be putting one to two players every year on the ACC first team and should be in the NCAA's just about every year given our conference and the weak early schedules we play.