I'll buy.
Here's a team that was in the CWS last year, now they not only go on to have a losing record for the first time since 1975, you have the HC legend trying to undermine the coaching search basically for his own selfish reasons and basically embarassing himself every week with something. Then you also have some of the players saying that they don't want to play for one of the candidates basically because he yells and tries to win. Then you have attendance dropping off, and the NCAA accusing us of practicing too much, which will surely be dropped if they watch us play.
Not to mention that you have said legend writing a 60 page manifesto to the NCAA, one of the ex-players coming to the First Pitch banquet and offending the crowd with jokes about the legend's unit, sexual orientation, and dropping the "d-word" a few times, which actually is pretty tame comsidering what he said on Letterman. I really regret not going as the comedic value would have very much been worth the drive and taking time off of work.
I mean, I halfway expect football to screw up. Would 1-11 be totally out of the realm of possibilty for football next year? I don't think it will happen, but we are talking MSU football here. Baseball, you kind of expect to have a little bit better fortune.