2 of 3 from the perennial slump buster is a good start to a run. Now, let's see if they grow a pair. Take the series from the pretentious pieces of s h i t and things get interesting.
No doubt, we don't win the series it's going to be rough. And it should be. I'm not one of those fatalistic types who gets hung up on one weekend, but we need to beat these guys at home, on SBW no less. Ole Miss isn't that great and are without their ace. You know exactly who their best players are and can neutralize them.
The next 6 are critical bc OM and Auburn are not good. Both lost their Friday guys. Auburns staff is horrible (they weren’t great last year either so please scratch Butch off any hot boards). And OM cant hit at all which is shocking. There is a pretty nice size portion of the league that is just flat bad right now and that’s all that’s giving us a chance. Bama is terrible
Yup. I'm still concerned about the pitching and even more so the defense. I feel ok about our young guys hitting. If we were playing decent defense, I'd think we just have a pitching coach problem. But ****** defense, especially from formerly reliable players, just smells like an overall program problem. Something just hasn't been right.
Nobody can hit upper tier pitching, that's why it's upper tier. The difference in us and those teams, is that we don't have anyone to match up with said upper tier pitcher.
Which is all we need to do this year - fight and not finish dead last. That buys another year to see if they can develop the younger, actually-talented pitchers. And yes, I do think Foxhall will be here.
We need to do better than not finish dead last. We need to win at least 10 SEC games for this season not to be a complete disaster. Even that would still be a major disappointment, but I could maybe see not firing Lemonis if he wins 10. Maybe.
A portion of the fan base wanted to fire him the season after winning the National Championship. I’m sure a weekend series win of the reigning champs will win them over**
Actually he has an opportunity to try to start a new direction but only start it. I don't think he can save this season. Sorry. Like someone said above it would take a "Major League" turnaround to even begin considering a discussion of changing my idea of our coaching.
Alabama is a really bad team. And they're always a really bad team. Not really a breakout series win. It's a series win, though, none the less. If we drop two of three this weekend, it won't be a pleasant end to the season
Actually Ole Miss has been thru the gaunlet a lot like we have. Theyve had a rough schedule to open sec play, florida/vandy/arkansas, AND a lot like us, they lost their ace game 1 into the season and had to adjust on the fly.
I couldn't believe it when they were saying Bama was projected as a #2 seed Saturday. They'll be lucky to make the tournament at all.
Yeah, Mississippi is a complete mystery to me why they're where they are. I keep thinking, Bianco has never had a truly bad season, so he'll get it turned around. Now, I'm beginning to wonder.
Welp, here come your biased takes. It's starting to become apparent who the mouth-breathing hot-takers are, and the ones who are thinking logically about this situation. The separation is apparent.
I think they’re about the same as they usually are. They’re not great but I also don’t think they completely suck. Still 23-10 with a Top 25 RPI. Winning two from them on the road is commendable.
Hard to say but they opened with a brutal conference schedule. The back half of their schedule a lot lighter and it wouldn’t shock me if they make a run to turn it around.
Ain't this the truth. I'm sure we have won a series on SBW since the Cohen Era began (and maybe even last year), but I certainly can't remember it. That's how bad that stench is.
If you can't at least be truthful and accept facts, I can't help you.
www.ncaa.com
If you can't at least be truthful and accept facts, I can't help you.
The 2023 college baseball field of 64, predicted at midseason by D1 baseball
Midway through the 2023 season the D1Baseball staff projects the postseason field of 64. Here are the predicted team seedings and regions.
2 seed in Stanford. Now please stop with the dumb stuff.
We were debating whether or not Alabama was "a really bad team" (quoted from another poster), which with the evidence we have available, is a dumb take.
I agreed with that in my response. I said they arent a bad team. No one is the SEC is, but alabama is likely more of a team that is going to be happy with getting in than a team that just missed out on hosting spot.
Well don't forget the rebs were not that good in the regular season last year coming within a gnat's eyelash of missing the tournament. They were 32-22, 14-16 and the very last name called on selection Sunday. Then somehow they won the damn CWS.
Post Cohen SBW has actually been good to us:
I think there's plenty of reason to be concerned about the pitching. Since 2014, there has only been one SEC pitching staff worse than this one, and it was the '21 Missouri team that went 15-36 with a 7.24 ERA.
Can we at least stop comparing this staff with statistics until we finish the year? Not even through 60% through the year, we know things can and do change big time throughout the year. 2018 comes to mind.
They lost 2 of 3 at home to Columbia. They haven’t wont a series against a team with a winning record. They are bad. Our RPI is 30 and we are bad.
