First-year Western Kentucky baseball coach John Pawlowski called senior Danny Hudzina into his office in the offseason and told him things were going to change.
As the top returning hitter for an offense that lost much of its firepower, Pawlowski knew the third baseman wouldn't be treated the same.
"I said, 'You can't worry about that, because you are a marked man now,' " Pawlowski said. " 'People are going to pitch around you. That's just part of it. That's what's going to happen. It's how you handle that, and you've got to be smart enough to understand what people are trying to do.