Coach Of The Year: O’Connor The Soothsayer
Virginia head coach Brian O’Connor, D1Baseball.com’s inaugural Coach of the Year, might just be a soothsayer disguised as a college baseball coach.
As his banged up Cavaliers trudged through a rigorous April schedule, and ended that month with a 27-18 overall record and 10-14 mark in the Atlantic Coast Conference, a postseason berth seemed in doubt. Sure, the Cavaliers had some nice wins and a reasonably good RPI. But that ACC record, along with the way the Cavaliers were playing, wasn’t going to cut it.
O’Connor, though, like the excellent coach and leader that he is, still had hope. Sure,[…]
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