West Virginia head baseball coach Steve Sabins did not hold back when commenting on Clemson’s beer garden and visitor’s bullpen.

Of course, a major change that came to Doug Kingsmore Stadium this year is the beer garden wedged between the stands and the opponent’s bullpen.

The visitor’s bullpen was moved out into foul territory down the left-field line. The area that used to serve as that bullpen was opened up to fans and now serves as a beer garden, where opposing pitchers have to warm up in front of the beer garden.

Sabins isn’t fond of that setup, to say the least, and was highly critical of it on Friday during his press conference ahead of West Virginia’s matchup at No. 6 LSU in the Baton Rouge Super Regional this weekend.

Sabins went on a rant when asked how noisy it was when the Mountaineers beat Clemson in the Clemson Regional last weekend, and if there were “issues” with fans and his team’s pitchers while they were warming up in the visitor’s bullpen.

“I like that you called them ‘issues.’ I agree with ‘issues,’” Sabins said, via BlueGoldNews.com.

Sabins later added that “the bullpen thing is bogus at Clemson,” saying the setup makes “drunk frat guys” too close in proximity to the opponent’s pitchers.

“You can get so close, and it’s a net where, as a pitcher is warming up, someone could actually grab a pitcher’s arm,” he said. “And so I’m all for environment, it’s just that as somebody is warming up, somebody could actually reach out and grab an arm.”

Sabins was then asked if Clemson fans touched any of his team’s pitchers.

“I don’t want to say that. I don’t know that for certain,” he said. “It’s close enough to be able to do that. So, I think as a pitcher is warming up, psychologically, if you feel like you’re in danger, you may adjust your mechanics, or you may feel like it’s too tight. So, there probably needs to be a rule in place just to control that a little bit.”

Sabins called the atmosphere at Doug Kingsmore Stadium “more like a minor league atmosphere,” as opposed to the atmosphere the Mountaineers are getting ready to play in at LSU’s Alex Box Stadium, which Sabins says is “more of a traditional college baseball setting.”

“I think it was 8,000 fans at Clemson. They’re excited. It’s an awesome atmosphere. It’s a little bit more like a minor league atmosphere, I think, than here [at LSU], when I’ve watched ball games here. They don’t pump as much music into the stadium,” Sabins said.

“The crowd here [at LSU] is raucous and really into the game, but it’s more of a traditional college baseball setting. At Clemson, it’s kind of that minor league thing where it’s offensive-oriented. Every time that there’s a ball or a walk or a hit, the music gets louder, and so it’s a little bit of an artificial heart rate increase, I think, for pitchers and for defenders.”