So like 4 people is public compared to the entire ESPN audience? The stadium was completely empty and only some official personnel were there. Outdoors does not equal public.
And what looks like the an entire Coastal Carolina baseball team (maybe Florida). I'm not upset at Sully, not in the slightest. I just don't think he's a victim in this series of events (that he set in motion). He publicly lost his cool (in front of the other coaches team likely his own team) the other coach said something about it. If we give 10% of the benefit of the doubt to him that is being afforded to Sully, you understand why he did what he did. Neither coach was right, but Sully is a grown man who made a choice and got called out for it. edit: team is likely Florida.
For clarity this happened at the area the team bus unloads and has access to the field. It is not a public area. Even if there were fans there (which they were not) fans walk over this area on a catwalk. This was 100% an "officials only" area.
I was wondering the same thing. It seems like Sully may be listing some reasons why this harms Florida in the second half of his rant, but I can’t make out what he’s saying.
I see bush league facilities in a backwater town maintained by people who attended on a short bus which all led to dangerous conditions and unfair disadvantages for our athletes. Even the broadcast highlighted the poor field conditions and maintenance. Seems Sully was upset about impacts on a pitcher recovering from injury and the fact that the small school staffs of ECU and CCU were properly notified the night before, whereas UF found out the morning of after warm-ups began. Appeared to be done intentionally as the NCAA site representative is the former CCU coach. Why should UF be embarrassed of anything other than the product on the "field" in that dump of Conway?
CC coach used this as an opportunity to show his staff that he sides with them and has their back. Calculated move on his part - but not going to make any friends with UF. Sully lost his cool a little with some of the language, but really not much different than anything you'd hear around a baseball clubhouse. "I appreciate you" even mixed into the rant. Not really a big deal, especially if he did handle it after the game like he said. Sounded to me like Sully was most upset that it sounded like the game time decision was made at 1:30 AM.
I rewatched "A League of Their Own" nowhere in the movie does Tom Hanks say "There's no cursing in baseball"
Yeah this I've been around enough HS baseball coaches to have heard WAY worse. I mean, unrepeatable insults - singular in their vulgarity and creativity. Not all of them are that way, and I prefer the ones who keep their composure - but having your delicate sensibilities hurt by a baseball coach throwing f-bombs is a pretty low threshold for offense. The CC coach was absolutely using the opportunity to gain status within his own organization... exploitative and obvious, but probably effective. "Rogers Hornsby was my manager, and he called me a talking pile of pig shit. And that was when my parents drove all the way down from Michigan to see me play..."
You couldn't be more wrong about the facilities there and not sure what is in essence Myrtle Beach is a "backwater town". (School is a 10-15 minute drive from the heart of Myrtle) A tourist city no doubt, but hardly Mayberry. But their stadium, while not huge is beautiful and has really cool seating areas and is well thought out with the boardwalk that opens up sightlines around the entire park. It does need a scoreboard upgrade.
Bad language in front of women who are clearly in hearing distance is not the way I was taught or my son was taught to behave. Embarassing. Saying this where no one but his team and the targets could hear is not big deal. In front of those women? No bueno.
They have a really sweet batting cage facility too. (The one the homer landed on) My baseball playing 14 year old was drooling when he walked around it.)
Last I checked Conway ain't the beach. The CCU football and baseball stadiums are situated across from a retention pond and a large cemetery. For all we know the fields could very well be constructed over unmarked graves. And there is a reason it's called Dirty Myrtle, I visited a few years ago for Memorial Day weekend and will never return. Makes Daytona Beach look high class. Just because the facilities are newer and aesthetically pleasing, doesn't mean they are actually high quality. The condition of the playing field itself as noted by the broadcast, was atrocious and dangerous for players, and speaks to either a lack of proper drainage facilities, or an incompetent grounds crew. Either way no sanctioned NCAA post-season event should ever take place in that cesspool...
Perhaps I missed something, but who said that Sully is a victim? You keep moving the goalposts to fit your own narrative, but most of us acknowledge that his approach was not the best look for him or the program.
ECU player reveals alarming comments directed at him by Kevin O'Sullivan during Conway Regional outburst - On3 the plot thickens
