A couple of takes the last few days

I've been off this the last few days, but I wanted to give my take on a few subjects here.

1. CANES Baseball winning a rain shortened game back on Sunday vs Carolina. Needed this win, given that we were struggling over the last week. Hopefully going into the UCF midweek game  tonight to end the homestand, we can build on the momentum from Sunday's win and complete the Home and Home sweep over the Golden Knights this evening and continue that mo going into Clemson this weekend. 
2. On the First Scrimmage this past Saturday, Malik and Kosi worked with the 1s and Jarren mostly with the 2s/3s. From all reports, Jarren did the best out of the three. Malik did ok for the most part, but Kosi really struggling this spring is an issue, big time. To be fair, the QBs weren't live in this first scrimmage. Hopefully in Saturday Night's Spring game at Hard Rock, they will be Live and then we'll hopefully start to get a better idea on where the QB competition still lies. Right now, it's still Malik's job to lose here. 
3. My expectations for the Spring Game on Saturday Night are that I want to see the QBs go Live and hopefully that will be the case. I want to see the TEs (Irvin, Polendey) really step their games up, but especially Polendey, who from all reports out there has had an awful Spring. I like that Irvin Jr is improving his game and working hard out there, which I like, but I need to see more and hopefully on Saturday Evening, we see that. 
4. The Defense to me has to continue the momentum from the First Scrimmage. It seems to me that Greg Rousseau is going to be in the rotation this season. It would not shock me if he starts in Arlington vs LSU at one of the DE spots. Going to real tough to keep him off the field. That guy is going to be a monster for OL to have to deal with. 
5. With ARich still recovering, I like that Big Cage is stepping his game up and ditto for Mr Clutch (Langham), and Dayall. When Richt first came here, I remember him challenging Big Cage to be the next AJ Green (whom Richt coached at UGa). 
6. The OL has been inconsistent and bordering on awful this spring. Look I realize losing Trevor and KC would be tough, but I didn't think it'd be this bad. In the first scrimmage, that OL was getting beat consistently. Saturday Night in the Spring Game, that OL MUST step up and produce a lot better than it did in that First scrimmage. 
7. Finally, Coach L got a two-year extension which runs through 2024. He's currently 68 and by the end of his deal, he'll be 75. Blake's statement reads on L's extension: "Coach Larranaga is an integral part of our athletics department's success, and he continues to demonstrate year after year that he is one of the best basketball coaches in the nation." If you read between the lines here, you have to believe that L is going to have a big say on who his successor will be when he hangs it up for good. With the Feds announcement yesterday on the investigation with Adidas, L said that he did nothing wrong and I have to believe in the end, he will be proven correct here. 

Series opener vs North Carolina

Opener of a weekend series at the Light vs Carolina.

We're in the mist of a 5 game losing streak right now. This is a critical series for us and one we must win to get back on track slowly. The season is slipping away from us here and we need a solid pitching performance tonight from Jeb.

Carolina is 19-10 on the season and 8-4 in the conference. They come off an 11-3 win over S. Carolina in Charlotte on Tuesday Night. They throw Baum at us tonight in Game 1. This is a team that was 7-7 to start the season, and have gone 12-3 since. They're hitting .303 as a team and their ERA is 2.47. We know what we are facing tonight.

When we have opportunities to cash in with men on base, we have to get it done because that staff on the other side won't give us many chances to do so.

Game time at 7 pm at the Light and can be seen on ACC Network Extra. In town or inside the Light, you can listen to Josh White on WVUM starting at 7 pm.

Another bad loss for CANES Baseball 4/4/18 7-4 to FAU

Another midweek game, another bad loss for The U on the diamond.

For the first time since in their history FAU has won the season series from UM. That's not good at all. This being 3's final season, it's all coming apart at the seams. The fight and the heart was there, but once again, we don't come up big in the big moments. We strike out 6 times last night, 2 of them called strike 3's.

Just one of those nights that's becoming all too familiar the last two years and not in a good way either.

Here's 3's postgame presser after last night's loss to FAU

We've lost 5 in a row now and the schedule doesn't get any easier with Carolina coming in for a weekend set before UCF comes in on Wednesday Night for the back end of the home and home. After that, we head up to Clemson for a weekend series there. This could get real ugly real fast unless this team finds a way to get out of the doldrums and start coming through in big moments.