Conqu'ring Heroes 16 - Erik Bakich
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
The Varsity Podcast Network
4.8 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
With the baseball season approaching this weekend, Jon chats with Michigan Baseball Head Coach Erik Bakich about the outlook for the program and the Big Ten as a whole (0:45), his revamped coaching staff heading into 2021 (12:20), the team's strengths and most important players (14:45), and his 2020 proposal to change the college baseball calendar (27:20).
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| 0:00.0 | On today's Conquering Heroes, we are joined by Michigan baseball coach Eric Batchett. |
| 0:05.8 | They're about to get things fired up for another baseball season this coming weekend. |
| 0:10.1 | We'll ask him about his roster, about his pitching staff, about his coaching staff. |
| 0:14.6 | Got some new individuals. |
| 0:15.7 | We'll get to all that here next on Conquering Heroes. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome to your one-stop podcast for all things Michigan Athletics. |
| 0:26.9 | Updates on every team on campus and interviews with players and coaches are all on the way. |
| 0:32.2 | This is Conquering Heroes. |
| 0:34.2 | Here's your host, John Chanson. |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome back to Conquering Heroes. I am joined as promised by |
| 0:41.0 | Michigan's baseball coach, Eric Backich. And coach, the last time that you and I talked was way |
| 0:47.3 | back at the beginning of the whole pandemic. And, you know, the baseball season had been put on hold. |
| 0:53.8 | You knew that it wasn't going to happen anymore. |
| 0:56.0 | What has the last 10 months been like for you and your players to prepare for what is |
| 1:02.5 | to come this coming weekend is, you know, the next college baseball season? |
| 1:07.1 | Well, hey, John, thank for having me on. |
| 1:08.9 | Great talking to you, as always. |
| 1:11.7 | You know, in the last 10 months, which seems to be dominated by uncertainty and fear, |
| 1:17.6 | and that's all you hear about if you watch TV. |
| 1:19.8 | You know, we just tried to shift the mindset with our players that we're going to be certain |
| 1:26.1 | that we're just going to try to get better |
| 1:29.1 | and certain on keeping a growth mindset and stop thinking in terms of all negative things |
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