No it’s not. We’ve beaten both State and LSU in the past. Something we rarely ever did before Bianco came to Oxford. We just aren’t the brand those schools are. LSU is the #1 baseball school in the country. If you ask most people outside the southeast if MSU has won a baseball national title they’ll answer ‘Sure.’ That’s program and name recognition that we don’t have because we didn’t dominate in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s like they did. We went to Omaha in a year that neither of those teams made it and finished that season ranked #3, the highest Big 3 sport end of year ranking in my lifetime and yours as well. Again, all this is due to Mike Bianco. If we lose tonight the fan base will be out for his head. If we win they’ll worship him for a few years before the base gets agitated again. Other than the Virginia Super Regional and the Tennessee Tech Regional in Oxford we’ve missed the CWS due to losing to teams that were better than us and really tough regional matchups.

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Posted by Henry Jones Jr

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Posted on 6/13/21 at 4:08 pm to reggierayreb

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Something we rarely ever did before Bianco came to Oxford

This is irrelevant. He's had 20 years in Oxford and only 1 trip to Omaha. He has pissed away so much talent that any other school would have run him off.

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If you ask most people outside the southeast if MSU has won a baseball national title they’ll answer ‘Sure.’ That’s program and name recognition that we don’t have because we didn’t dominate in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s like they did.

And we haven't dominated the 2000s and 2010s because of Mike Bianco choking with an insane amount of talent. We have arguably been more talented than MSU the last two decades and we only have 1 trip to show for it.

It doesn't matter how shitty we were two decades ago before Bianco got here. We are a different program now with elevated expectations. Did he get us to this point? Sure did. But you can't sit back and be satisfied with what we are now. Or else you become stagnant as a program and that's when people will justifiably turn on you as a coach and want more.

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