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And yes, this fan base would remember this season a lot more fondly if it won the SECT and bombed in regionals than if it scrapes by a few wins to get to the Supers only to go 0-2.

No. No, they wouldn't. You play the season and conference tournament to get into the NCAA tournament. Your goal is to go as far as you can so wanting to win a lower prize is willing to settle for less. South Carolina baseball has built it's reputation by it's NCAA tournament play not it's Sec tournament wins. Even if you go 0-2 in the Super Regional you still are one of the 16 final teams playing and that is the goal. Our baseball fans remember the Super Regional s we are in but don't remember sec tournament wins and.

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simply a dumb argument to think they can't be done the same year and to be okay with the idea that it's fine just sitting out trying to win a conference championship and embarrass ourselves in Hoover every year.

Answer this did we win the SEC tournament in 2010,11 or 2012?
2010- 0-1
2011- 1-2
2012- 1-2
We have won the SEC tournament 1 year 2004.
This was Ray Tanners approach and it worked damn good. He sucks as AD but you can't question his baseball coaching ability.

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Posted by theGarnetWay

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Posted on 5/26/21 at 4:06 pm to SOSFAN

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No. No, they wouldn't. Y

bullshite. No way people would go to each other and say, "Hey man, remember that random season where we went 0-2 the Supers? Great year."

Oppose that to, "Hey man, remember that time we won the SEC-T?"

I guarantee you on average the latter is more memorable than the former.

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Our baseball fans remember the Super Regional s we are in but don't remember sec tournament wins and.

Super regional wins? Sure. Super regional losses? Not unless it was something spectacularly bad (ULL).

You're crazy if you think people remember what happened in '06, '07, '16, etc. as some great accomplishment as to winning any sort of conference title.

And they don't remember any sec tournament wins because we barely have any! Plus, I'm not talking about random 1-2 wins in the tournament. I'm talking about actually winning it. I still very much remember the last out in 2004 vs Vanderbilt.

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Answer this did we win the SEC tournament in 2010,11 or 2012?

Oh good God. How many examples do you need to know that it is possible to win both?

Tanner is gone and has been for nearly a decade now if you can believe it. Gamecocks fans are too accepting of getting our asses kicked in these things because of Tanner has if that'll work for other coaches.

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