The only smell is what's left of the 15-20 NC t-shirts I bought and didn't wear that still take up one whole drawer in the dresser.......
Two weeks from today Air Force lands at The Dude....
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I say if we make host a regional we still fire lem and hire parker.
It's disheartening missing on so many top flight players especially after we demonstrate time and time again our fans show up to support the baseball team. What I'm left to believe is that while the Dude may be a big draw, Starkville most certainly is not. Don't know how else to explain it.
So - side point here.
I have long been a critic of Lemonis' crootin'. Basically, he's going after what I call the PG All-Americans, coddled travel-ballers that play nothing but baseball year round and go to showcases. Obviously all the superstar guys are in that group too, at least most of the ones we're talking about here that command NIL or whatever.
I would rather see us come back to the Cohen style of players - the 2nd tier, tougher mentality type guys that are very good athletes. Obviously the transfer portal makes this harder - I mean Skenes wasn't Skenes until he got to Air Force, but that's rare, he's a once in a decade type breakout stud.
This is Lemonis' year to prove his crootin' strategy works - although it seems to me like he's sort of went back after the tougher brand of guy. Just an observation I've made. Basically what I'm saying is that we should go after the high 3-star, 4-star guys who are talented but still have a chip on their shoulder, rather than the 5-star guys who are already fat and happy, and that's if they don't get drafted. DJ is a good example of this 5-star type.
I won’t disagree with most of that.
however I do think lemo or anyone for that matter now days, has to be able to do better in the portal that we current have and are.
again we claim to be an elite program, Texas am, UT, LSU, Ark all without a question landed a big fish in the portal this year. TxAm landed the biggest. Sure there are years where we will strikeout there but there should be times where we get that player too. So far. We’ve whiffed bad in that regard
It certainly seems like Braden Montgomery is the big fish we could have landed, if we were ever going to do it.
It’s not Starkville. It’s Lemonis. We recruited fine until he got here, except for the 2000s when Polk just didn’t care.
More importantly, will our left field fans have some good food to spoil visiting players from air force? Will it be televised so the preening peacocks can show off their rigs? That's all that matters.
Listened to all the programs put out by Coleman/Lowery and Hadad. The pitching staff seems to be responding to his leadership. Stephens and Holcomb looked very good at scrimmages. Defense was a major improvement from last year in the scrimmages. We are unranked and no one is expecting much out of use. I like our chances for improving.
Short answer today is no. Check back in the middle of March and see if I feel different.
I have a bad feeling I won't but you never know.
I have a bad feeling I won't but you never know.
I’m not worried about Hines and Jordan but we need guys like Kohler and Hujsak to surprise us with low k rates and about 26-30 HR between them, plus a slew of doubles. Highfill can also fill out the offense on his part. Maybe ( name escapes me, always injured ) can become a regular somewhere on the field and in the order ? I think 1-9 we can be pretty competitive although I’m not sure what Cupp’s bat will play like.
That smell you are smelling is the scent of….ah….forget it
“All is see is 3 (series) wins”
We can’t even look forward to baseball season anymore. This **** sucks, should have canned Lameass last year. Dude is basically the baseball version of Ed Ogeron or Gene Chizick type coach. What a waste of a year it’s going to be. We just delayed the rebuild, that’s all. Goh I hope I’m wrong, but I expect the worst
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It’s been far gone. Only Mississippi St can go from a natty to one of the worst teams in the conference, and fail to even make the conference tournament. Huge opportunity to capitalize off the success of a natty to elevate even further, only to toss it down the drain.
Well actually our friends from Oxford found even more misery the year after winning a NC. At least State followed theirs up by winning 9 SEC games. The Sharks managed to win only 6 SEC games the year after their NC. In fact, I'll go so far as to say they mortgaged 2023 for that 2022 NC specifically because State won it in 2021. They paid all those seniors to come back for a 5th year and multiple juniors to come back for their senior year and turned over their entire roster for 2023. Let's see which one turns it around this year. Lemonis or The Shrimp in Powder Blue!
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