With four home games scheduled against top 10 opponents, Kentucky’s baseball team faces a challenging week. The Wildcats all but insist they wouldn’t want it any other way.
UK has been facing challenges from literally the first meeting with new coach Nick Mingione last spring. The players had to get a sense of the new coach and the tone he wanted to set.
“That was a challenge in and of itself,” closer Logan Salow said Monday. “And we took it on with a full head of steam.”
Mingione acknowledged the challenge of a coaching change.
“The very first team meeting, we talked about change,” he said, “and how hard it is, and either they were going to embrace it and love it, or they were going to fight it and ultimately maybe be miserable.