Comments on: Castello to replace Steen as DLS baseball coach

By: C-Town Express

C-Town Express — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:32:43 +0000

Good luck to Coach Cas and the boys this year!!

By: so sad, glad

so sad, glad — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:33:07 +0000

Leave it to Glad Dad to have all the insight. Place all blame on Steen, and sleep well at night.
It is not possible that this was another example of spoiled parents that filter their dreams of reliving the glory days to their kids, and teaching them that if you point the finger at someone else then it is never your fault.
Maybe DLS can teach their community this upcoming year about each individual taking ownership and responsibility for what they do. It takes more than a coach to win, and it takes an entire program to fall.

By: Prep Fan

Prep Fan — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 01:15:12 +0000

I guess it is convenient to have one scapegoat to place all blame on for a poor season. If I only really knew? Heck, if I’d have known he was throwing 45 mph BP, I’d have helped push for his ouster sooner. Any other coach and that team goes undefeated. With a new coach, DLS should be the preseason #1 pick to win NCS for next year.

By: Glad Dad

Glad Dad — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:15:32 +0000

It must be easy to comment from the outside … if you only really knew.

I go back to my original comments, “leadership, and preparation”. When you take BP from a coach that throws 45mph, and doesn’t throw strikes, who would expect the kids to hit EBAL pitching? When your only returning pitcher threw less than 10 innings in his Jr year, you don’t expect much from him I guess. And if he wasn’t that good, what does that say about talent evaluation abilities. Practice, and preparation this year was virtually nothing. I don’t see how that is not coaching.

He came to DLS with little energy, and even less passion. I suspect that when he left SRV, he wasn’t what he was 10 years earlier, so please don’t tell me he was at the top of his game this decade, let alone even these past two years.

The 2010 team that won NCS for highest GPA was just too dense to understand the sage wisdom he passed along.

Better coaches, with less talented players could have done more.

By: Prep Fan

Prep Fan — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:00:33 +0000

Steen seemed to do quite well at SRV over th elast 30 years. He has one down year with little talent on the squad and suddenly he forgot everything he knew about coaching. He must have been trying to help out SRV by refusing to “coach, instruct, grow or mentor” those poor kids. I’m sure if he tried, he could have put another 10 mph on a couple of those pitchers’ arms and the team would have suddenly been a contender. It certainly couldn’t have anything to do with little Glad Jr. and his teammates not being as talented as many of the other players in the league.

By: ebal fan 2

ebal fan 2 — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:38:16 +0000

The fact the kids couldn’t hit or pitch didn’t help this year.

By: Glad Dad

Glad Dad — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:56:15 +0000

Fantastic!!!

I think Coach Steen has been in a “sitting back … looking from a spectator’s view” – for the last two years … he certainly wasn’t coaching, instructing, growing, or mentoring those kids.

His negative style of communication, uninspired coaching, lack of leadership, preparation and quality practice resulted in a team that lost heart and passion – it was the worst for the seniors – having to endure it for two long years.

But with this announcement, the dark days are over.

Good luck to the new coach / staff. DLS Baseball future again can be bright.

ps. Hopefully the school administration / athletic director have learned something about hiring quality people, actual teachers, and people that like the students. The kids certainly deserve better than what they gave them last go-round. Such a poor choice would not have happened for the football program, let’s just say that.