Brian O'Connor
Brian O'Connor
NCAA baseball head coach was named the 2009 National Coach of the Year with the University of Virginia in 2009.
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth21 April 1971
execution offensive
Our offensive execution was really good, and I think that was the story of the game.
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It's a terrible burden on the poorest, most vulnerable citizens of the state, especially those on fixed income,
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He really had a good performance today. But I was hard on Pat today. I am still not completely satisfied with the way he threw. Believe it or not, even though he shut them out. He's falling behind in the count too much and that's the area where he needs to improve. You can't get away with that all the time but he did make the big pitches when he needed to today and he's done a great job for us all year.
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He wants the competition, he wants the best. He wants to play big-time football. He's maybe just a little too small, a little too slow. But I think he'll contribute, maybe on special teams as a freshman. If he makes it, he'll make it by out-working everybody.
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It was important to get him back out there and give him a little confidence heading into a key weekend for us.
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Any time in college baseball you can get 30 wins before you have 10 losses, you put yourself in really great position. We need to take advantage of every opportunity we have at home.
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When you lose a tough ballgame like we did on Wednesday, it is important that your senior leadership and your captains step up, and Mike Ballard did that today. He got us started back on the right track.
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Those guys in the bullpen have been worked hard. I was trying to sneak through one more inning with Jacob.
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We didn't necessarily have a strategy. We all had our strengths and weaknesses, but we also had enough faith in one another to let whoever had a gut feeling about the answer go ahead and buzz in.
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There are a lot of people in the family who don't see each other too often. They're still catching up. A somber mood is going on.