Augie Garrido
Augie Garrido
August Edmun Garrido, Jr.is a former head coach in NCAA Division I college baseball and is current special assistant to the athletic director at the University of Texas. At the end of the 2016 season, Garrido compiled a collegiate record of 1975-919-9. He has taken his programs to 15 College World Series...
attention pay
He'll know not to pay attention to those things.
brilliant cox
J. Brent Cox was brilliant with his opportunity,
added certainly convert criticized level perform pitching roger
I know we feel an added level of responsibility, and it's important for us not to let that convert into pressure. You can't perform better because Roger Clemens went here, but you certainly can be criticized for not having a Roger Clemens on your pitching staff.
besides looked separated
That probably is the one thing that separated the two teams. Besides that, I think they looked very much alike.
added combined good pitching power settle speed
Our added power combined with our speed is interesting, but I'm never going to settle for just power. Good pitching can always take that away.
expectation journey levels ready
Obviously, the expectation levels are always high, and they are again. So, we'll just get ready to take the journey.
enjoying mean says watching
He says he's enjoying watching it on TV. That doesn't mean they won't.
environment hard small
It's hard to concentrate on a small environment like this one after being in so many big environments like we have.
broke finally game ice innings laughing players won
The game was 20 innings and it was cold. We finally won it when the players started getting delirious. They got to laughing and that's what broke the ice - literally.
baseball eligible figure juniors leave leaving school schools staggering trying unique year
With so many juniors leaving school and 21-year-olds eligible to leave at any time, baseball is in a unique position. The schools are staggering through this first year in trying to figure out what the APR really means.
consistency establish system trying
We need to stabilize the infield. We're trying to establish a system that will give us consistency.
chance journey players ready
We have a lot of new players that have a chance to make important contributions. We're just getting ready to take the journey.
move short together
We have to move forward. We have to put an infield together and find a short reliever.
coming enrich experience knew players team
We all knew coming in that this was a team of experience. But it's one thing to have experience and it's another thing to use it, to make it enrich your performance. That's what these players did.