Quotes from the Big 12 Baseball Coaches Teleconference

Big12Sports.com holds a periodic live teleconference with all the Big 12 Baseball head coaches during the season. The first conference was held this morning. The complete transcript will be archived at Big12Sports.com. A few quotes from Tim Jamieson at this morning's first teleconference:

The Big 12: The conference is as good as it's been. There are a number of teams that could be in Omaha at the end of the year, and a number that could play for a national championship.

Confidence: From a confidence standpoint, I look at the number of players we have with post-season experience.

Concerns: The concern that you always have is that we don't rely on first year players to come in and have a big impact . . . So for us to have a big year, we need to rely on the guys who were freshmen last year to come in and contribute.

Dealing with the high ranking: Three of the last four years we were ranked in the top 10 at some point . . . . This year the guys are probably pretty indifferent about it.

Starting rotation: We start the season with 9 games in 11 days. The first weekend, we'll start Kyle Gibson, Ian Berger, Nick Tepesch and Kelly Fick. By mid-week we may even just "staff" a game.