Thinking back about the season, I as disappointed as everyone here. However , in retrospect, we were probably over rated. We lost 10 players, our best pitcher, other productive pitchers and some talented players. Look at LSU and other top teams from last year that have dropped. My personal opinion is that one can point to different problems in the games we lost, but IMHO the recurring problems were a bad Hartle vs. an effective Hartle(still don't understand why so many defend him and make excuses for him). Other factors obviously were a bad bullpen, lack of 0ne or two dependable starting pitchers and no offense from the 7-9 batters. Even as much as I love Kurtz, his numbers were down and even our leading hitters often left too many runners on base. Finally, and I will probably catch hell for this, I feel much of the criticism against Walter was un-deserved. As is the case with most managers and coaches, they get too much credit for winning and too much blame for losing. It's easy to too be critical of every decision but the reality of it is that it is the player that influences the decision. If he is successful, the coach is a genius, if not he is a fool. Looking at his record I think he has been more successful and taken us further than many of our other coaches. In summary, I think we have a good team but not a great one. Hopefully some things will come together and we can make some noise in the post season. The above represents the sole opinions of the author and any mistakes are mine and mine only.