Ty Neal’s second season as the skipper of Cincinnati Bearcats’ baseball team ended in about the same way as his first; a sub-.500 record with just six wins to speak of in the American Athletic Conference. On record alone it looked like UC regressed this past season, from 22 wins to just 15 in 2015, and you might be questioning why Whit Babcock replaced Brian Cleary two years ago.
At the time the reasons seemed pretty simple. Despite Cleary acting under the weight of less than the maximum allowable scholarships (thank you, Mike Thomas), his baseball teams never strayed from the middle of the pack.