"Although he is a great human being off the baseball field, he isn’t so great as a coach on the field. Let’s say from my experience coming into this program that he has stated in the first week of the fall semester that everyone will be given a fair chance to receive many opportunities to prove themselves and that there will be no favoritism whatsoever. Let’s just say that promise was broken within a week. He knew who he had as his “main starters” on the team the first week into the fall semester and made it obvious that he only wanted to build close personal relationships with those players. He loves it when his specific players that he likes will walk up to him just have full on conversations about anything during batting practice sessions where that takes time away from him doing actual coaching and observing of the players when hitting in BP. Not only that but there has been times where he himself would walk around the field to talk to those same specific players too during BP or even drill sessions leading to no direct coaching in any way. I for one would be lucky if he said something as simple as “hello” to me as that shows he only cared for a select amount of players and had little care for players like me. He always claims that he will be open and honest to all of his players while also stating that he cares for every player on the team when in reality he really doesn’t. For the players he mainly cared about he would coach them and go into very good detail about what they should work on, praise them for doing something good, and being laid back if they made an error or swing and miss during practice. For the players he cared little about it would be the exact opposite where he would go into bland, short detail of instruction on things to work on, wouldn’t make any compliments or praise on something that player did good on, and would be intense/criticizing that player for making an error or swinging and missing during practice. To sum it up, he has never stuck true to his word to most players. Although he has been around baseball for a long time knowing the game very well as he has a good reputation for playing high level collegiate baseball and playing pro-ball, all that knowledge from being around the game doesn’t make him a very good coach nor is he much of a good motivator for the team. His actions, along with his assistant coaches same actions, has led to a poor team culture with no leadership whatsoever and due to having multiple seasons in a row of very poor records, the team culture has turned into a bunch of selfish individuals where almost all the players don’t care whether they won or lost the game, players that played in the game would only care if they had a good or bad performance no matter the team outcome."