OMAHA, Neb. — On April 22, the College of Charleston baseball team beat Coastal Carolina, and winning coach Chad Holbrook walked across the field to his car and glanced over at the third-base dugout. Coastal Carolina’s players were on the bus, and the coaches were having a meeting. Holbrook considers those coaches friends — they’re separated by less than a two-hour drive and essentially share a beach — and when he looked in, he thought they seemed down.
So Holbrook stopped.
“I told them, ‘Why are y’all so mad?'” he said. “‘You’ve got one of the best teams in the country. You’re going to host a regional and probably be a national seed, and you’re probably not going to lose the rest of the year.'”…