Josh Holliday: ‘[OSU Baseball is] Whole Again’

Mike Holder doesn’t get enough credit for this CWS run from Oklahoma State baseball. His hire of Josh Holliday four years ago has proven to be one of the best of his decade-long tenure. Holliday keeps deflecting praise off himself and to his coaches and players, but I’m pretty sure everyone knows through whom the stream of success flows in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

“We’re very humbled to have come here and played well enough to advance to the College World Series,” Josh Holliday told Go Pokes. “It’s an amazing journey. It pulls a lot of things out of you along the way… It’s very special to our school. Having been a program with amazing baseball history, to have not gone since 1999, to go back gives us a feeling of being whole again from the baseball standpoint.”

And he played the “nobody believes in us” card perfectly after OSU got punched out of the Big 12 tournament in unremarkable fashion.

“The credit goes to the players. They took the opportunity to go on the road together against a challenging bracket. Nobody thought anything about this team. We gave up two nine-spots in the eighth inning of the conference tournament. People were down on us, and these kids turned their focus to getting better and they went out for the past two weeks and have played beautiful baseball. They are writing a script that they’ll never forget, and I couldn’t be more proud of them.”

Pretty awesome stuff. With one more script left to write.