As hard as it may be to shelve the what-could-have-been of 2021, Hog baseball fans, we must start that rehab together.
The Super Regional loss to North Carolina State represented an early, jarring end to what just 48 hours earlier became the program’s first 50-win season in three decades. There’s no use rehashing the lurking deficiencies that Kevin Kopps alone might have masked for months.
Kopps, newly anointed as the first relief pitcher to ever win the Dick Howser Trophy, should be on his way to a strong professional future — even if some naysayers don’t think he’s even worth a Top 100 pick.