I noticed a couple of troll posts to my sabre thread so I thought it may have been brought up here. I had no idea you would dwell my postings there so much during a weekend when you’re on the verge of sweeping FSU. I’m not going to read and certainly won’t respond to everything posted here but I’ll clarify a few things.

No, I don’t wish for a second that my kid was playing for VT or a similarly ranked program. In addition to getting a world class education my kid gets to play occasionally and when she does at home she plays in one the sports must beautiful facilities. As far as the comparison between your mid-April schedule and our Feb non-con schedule, we always left Cville on either Thursday night or Friday morning and returned by Sunday, just like any ACC road series. We never have and never will take the team on the road for an entire week in April so close to final exams.

As far as the Abby Knight recruiting situation there is something uniquely despicable about your coach’s activities that even the “one sided” article and “these things happen during coaching changes” doesn’t reflect. If he cut her loose within a reasonable time frame of coming on board it’s a non-issue, but he kept her hanging on while recruiting for her replacement and when he got one in Banks he cut her loose when Knight’s options were limited in the late summer going into her senior year. I don’t care if Banks UW coaches were big meanies who didn’t treat her well (before she got there?) and Pete was a saint to her it doesn’t excuse his treatment of Knight. Most of you probably haven’t even read her father’s account of this episode on your own OS board, you don’t care because it wasn’t your daughter, granddaughter, or niece it happened to.

Your team this year is good enough to win it all but bat & ball sports are crapshoots with umpire calls, bad bounces and lucky breaks being the deciding factor among elite teams. I could not have more respect for your players who deal with the insane pressure you put on them to end your 0-fer natty quest, but did anyone notice that when FSU pulled within two Lonnie, who has a natty, didn’t put Sandercock back in the circle? Your coach not only has your ace throw 160 pitches in an extra inning win on Friday but also makes her the janitor who gets to clean up yesterday’s mess. To win a natty it doesn’t matter nearly as much where your team is in April nearly as it does in June.

Other than a few notable exceptions on this board who do question your coach’s character and get roasted by the homers for doing so, what you all don’t seem to realize is that you’re being set up to all be used and tossed aside by this guy. I noticed when the topic of coach’s extension gets brought up your top homer-in-chief said the AD told him it was a done deal but Pete didn’t want it announced. Why on earth would a coach not want it announced to his future recruits and fan base that he was going to be here for a long time?