As the Texas Tech softball team tries to move forward after its deflating loss to the Tennessee Lady Volunteers, the Red Raiders are going to need to figure out how to get things going when they’re up to bat. That’s a must.
It’s something the Texas Tech softball team just couldn’t figure out against Tennessee, which is odd given how good the Red Raiders’ bats have been this year.
But when Texas Tech was given the challenge of facing off against Karlyn Pickens and the rest of the Lady Volunteers, Gerry Glasco made it clear that his team just wasn’t prepared enough to take care of business in that matchup.
And he’s not looking for someone to point fingers at. Glasco is owning his share of what went wrong for the Red Raiders while at the plate.
“I’ve got to take some blame on this," Glasco said during his postgame press conference. “As an offensive coach, obviously I didn’t have my team ready to face Karlyn Pickens. She was really good. We kept getting on top of the ball instead of inside the ball on the drop ball and we didn’t make that adjustment and that’s on me.”
Gerry Glasco makes it clear that he believes the Red Raiders didn’t value their at-bats enough against Tennessee
“It was across the board, all the right hand hitters, we just weren’t ready for what she was doing,” Glasco said.
As for the specifics on what Texas Tech was doing wrong in its approach at the plate against the Lady Volunteers?
“We were hitting too many ground balls, we just weren’t getting the ball where we wanted it,” Glasco explained. “We weren’t hitting it in the air, we weren’t hitting the ball as hard as we wanted to hit it.”
Glasco taking a level of ownership of that situation is a good thing. It’s great to see a head coach speak up and own a failure on something as significant as this. Now, whether or not there’s more to this beyond just what Glasco said here, that’s another discussion for another time.
At the end of the day, Glasco is taking accountability for his part in Texas Tech coming up short while also allowing for others to take responsibility for their part as well. He’s not shifting the blame onto anyone else. He’s owning how he didn’t help his lineup do enough to prepare for one of the best pitchers in the country. And I appreciate that.
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