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Third-year USF baseball coach Mark Kingston believes the pundits who have offered modest projections for the Bulls in 2017 simply haven't seen a large chunk of his pitching staff.
Unless they smuggled a hidden camera inside the Bulls' rehab room last year.
Arguably no USF coach this side of Murry Bartow warrants a mulligan more than Kingston, who lost four pitchers to Tommy John surgery in 2016. The result was a 24-33 record, only one season after USF earned its first NCAA Tournament berth since 2002.
"No disrespect to last year's team, but we had to deal with a lot of adversity," Kingston said.