Wichita State’s baseball team is 10-19 and the third-year coach, Todd Butler, hasn’t been able to prove he’s up to the job.
The Shockers get routed with regularity and their once-vaunted pitching staff is a shambles with a 5.99 ERA, the highest since Gene Stephenson’s first year in 1978, when WSU valued anyone who could get the ball near the plate.
Attendance is woeful at Eck Stadium — a recent series against No. 8 TCU drew flies.
Nobody is demanding a return to the glory days, when the Shockers went to five College World Series from 1988-93.