[JMV Just My View]

Obviously not. One of her former players seems to be light years ahead of her right now (Molly Fichtner). Maybe she should call Molly and ask her for a little advice on how to build a winning program in the Sunbelt Conference.

ULM has won one SBC title in the history of their program, I'm not sure I would be calling them. Fichtner is more successful because of her grinder mentality along with her staffs ability to coach players up. She has also adapted with the times.

[Vobserver]

Knox, Smith, Otto and Kennedy will have to have career years for us to have a winning record. One injury to any one of them and or one pitcher, we are doomed.

Knox needs to cut down on her strikeouts, Smith needs to return to her freshman form, Otto, Marceaux, Hart, Liscano, Norwood and Williams need to match last year. We return more than you think offensively. Also, there are two or three freshmen who are promising prospects offensively.

Now, pitching is another story. We have Hoover, who is a serviceable # 3 and everyone else is either a major project or unknown quantity.

[SportyCajun459]

She was under a successful system as a coach for 25 years and as a player for 3 or 4 years. Shouldn't that be enough experience to develop her own system instead of trying to copy another coach's system?

Obviously not. One of her former players seems to be light years ahead of her right now (Molly Fichtner). Maybe she should call Molly and ask her for a little advice on how to build a winning program in the Sunbelt Conference.

[Suave]

Knox, Smith, Otto and Kennedy will have to have career years for us to have a winning record. One injury to any one of them and or one pitcher, we are doomed.

[Vobserver]

It's all going to come down to pitching. We have one experienced pitcher coming in who will need to cut her era in half to be successful. All of the other pitchers are projects.

Maybe the freshman pitcher will be another Jordan Wallace. Remember, Wallace won her first 21 games as a freshman. Unfortunately, chances are that ain't happening.

2027 will prove just how good ( or bad) of a pitching coach Kyle is. If he doesn't coach them up, it's highly unlikely the Cajuns will score enough runs to make up for the runs the pitchers will give up.

I agree with this. We would need to increase our scoring by at least 2 runs per game to get to 40 wins, and that is assuming that our pitching is as good as last season.

[JMV Just My View]

The pitcher or the catcher?

Pitcher.

[JMV Just My View]

Yes it should be enough time.

Yet, she had no real desire to be a head coach someday and had to be begged.

I can picture her not coming up with her own system beforehand

Maybe Maggard can call Earlywhine.

[Vobserver]

63 Catchers left in the portal, and 109 Pitchers left in the portal. Out of those, maybe 2, in my opinion, could help us. One of those might be signing with St. John's today.

The pitcher or the catcher?

[JMV Just My View]

The off season grade for our coaching staff is yet to be fully determined, but on paper it is a D at best this year. Both players they have signed from the portal have potential, but that just means they haven't accomplished anything yet at the D1 level. The recruiting class also has potential, but the same caveat applies to them. There are still a few good players left in the portal, but the recruiting philosophy of our staff seems to preclude considering accomplished players from lower level D1 conferences or from D2.

As a fan, I am willing to give coach Habetz one more year. To use a softball analogy, the count so far is 0-2; three strikes and she is out.

At worst we need to win 40 games next year. For our program that is a mediocre season. Except for the cancelled 2020 season, the Cajuns have won 40 or more games every season this century until Habetz arrived. The team has won fewer than 30 games [not counting 2020] only 7 times in the 45 years the program has been in existence. The last one before Habetz took over was in 1988.

I grade it an F. Very disappointing summer. The staff needs to be way more proactive in getting players anyway possible.

[Roarman]

Oh, I don't think we will win 40. I do think we have enough talent everywhere but in the coaches office to do so. [And maybe in the circle, but then who is responsible for that?]

It's all going to come down to pitching. We have one experienced pitcher coming in who will need to cut her era in half to be successful. All of the other pitchers are projects.

Maybe the freshman pitcher will be another Jordan Wallace. Remember, Wallace won her first 21 games as a freshman. Unfortunately, chances are that ain't happening.

2027 will prove just how good ( or bad) of a pitching coach Kyle is. If he doesn't coach them up, it's highly unlikely the Cajuns will score enough runs to make up for the runs the pitchers will give up.

[JMV Just My View]

The off-season grade for our coaching staff is yet to be fully determined, but on paper it is a D at best this year. Both players they have signed from the portal have potential, but that just means they haven't accomplished anything yet at the D1 level. The recruiting class also has potential, but the same caveat applies to them. There are still a few good players left in the portal, but the recruiting philosophy of our staff seems to preclude considering accomplished players from lower-level D1 conferences or from D2.

As a fan, I am willing to give coach Habetz one more year. To use a softball analogy, the count so far is 0-2; three strikes and she is out.

At worst, we need to win 40 games next year. For our program, that is a mediocre season. Except for the cancelled 2020 season, the Cajuns have won 40 or more games every season this century until Habetz arrived. The team has won fewer than 30 games [not counting 2020] only 7 times in the 45 years the program has been in existence. The last one before Habetz took over was in 1988.

63 Catchers left in the portal, and 109 Pitchers left in the portal. Out of those, maybe 2, in my opinion, could help us. One of those might be signing with St. John's today.

[Turbine]

She was under a successful system as a coach for 25 years and as a player for 3 or 4 years. Shouldn't that be enough experience to develop her own system instead of trying to copy another coach's system?

Yes it should be enough time.

Yet, she had no real desire to be a head coach someday and had to be begged.

I can picture her not coming up with her own system beforehand

[JMV Just My View]

We had a much talented roster back when the program was annually winning 40 games. Nowadays, we basically have a roster of second and third stringers with an occasional first stringer on the roster. It's just the way things are in these times of NIL. The coaches at ULM, Marshall, Southern Miss, etc. seem better at getting their mediocre players to play better than our mediocre players. This appears to be where Alyson is lacking. Her rah-rah coaching approach just doesn't seem to resonate with players. If I was Alyson, I would try to gain insight on what the successful Sunbelt coaching staffs are doing and emulate their system.

She was under a successful system as a coach for 25 years and as a player for 3 or 4 years, and 2 on her own. Shouldn't that be enough experience to develop her own system instead of trying to copy another coach's system?

[Headcase33]

They will go 30-26.

[Vobserver]

Oh, I don't think we will win 40. I do think we have enough talent everywhere but in the coaches office to do so. [And maybe in the circle, but then who is responsible for that?]