Newly-hired Northern Illinois baseball coach Ryan Copeland has had a couple of milestone events turn the wrong way quickly.
Copeland tried, but he was 24 at the time after playing four years at Illinois State, and knew time was running out. The only NIU player to reach the major leagues since 1980 was Brian Schmack, the Rolling Meadows grad who pitched 11 games for Detroit in 2003. "I've told every one of our guys I've talked to on our current roster that we expect to win next year. It's not a three, four, five-year rebuild. Certainly we have some work to do. We have to get more talented. We have to have better arm talent. We need to dominate the Chicagoland area in recruiting."
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