PP7 for heisman

The only possible chance of an at large is a sweep this weekend and an SECT finals appearance.

I don't even think that would do it. About 98% certain we need to win the tournament to make it.

For once I just want you to list the alternative.

What coach do you prefer over Jay?

Maybe, while you're thinking (googling) of the answer to that question, you'll realize how stupid all of these "fire da corch!" threads are.

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Didn’t we play them in 2016 for Mikes last trip in tiger stadium? For some reason I remember the opponent being mcneese

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We've played McNeese twice. 2021 and 2010.

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A champion is not made of 'What if's'. I do agree there were some close calls and at least those would have made for at least some post season action.

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I understand that. I do not believe, after seeing a full season from this team, that they have the ability to win a national title. It's just a down year. I wouldn't have said the same thing for a team like the '24 team.

Still, they played in a ton of close games and just didn't really win any.

The point of my post was illustrating how thin the margins are in the conference. If you have a couple more balls bounce your way, you're looking at playing this weekend for a regional host site.

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The most frustrating thing is wild pitches and free passes. Those things weren't improved upon throughout the season.

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I agree, and those actually got worse throughout the season when you started to lose innings from your starters.

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Sort of like we did with football and basketball?

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Let's take a look at the last 4 seasons of football and basketball and compare them to baseball, shall we?

Football
2022 - 10-4 (no playoffs)
2023 - 10-3 (no playoffs)
2024 - 9-4 (no playoffs)
2025 - 7-6 (no playoffs

Basketball
2022 - 14-19 (no tournament)
2023 - 17-16 (no tournament)
2024 - 14-18 (no tournament)
2025 - 15-17 (no tournament)

Baseball
2023 - 54-17 (National Title)
2024 - 43-22 (Lost in Regional Final)
2025 - 53-15 (National Title)
2026 - 29-24 (likely no tournament)

Hmm. Do you notice any difference between the baseball program and the football/basketball programs?

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There’s a reason why when the program is in the dumps new coaches and players is the only answer.

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Having one bad season does not at all mean the "program is in the dumps."

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And if someone had said after 2014-2016 Les era in football that we’d have a coach who would deliver us the greatest season and team in college football history but we would crater off a cliff in the following two seasons we all would have taken it.

It doesn’t mean O was a good coach. Jay now has three bad teams out of 5 at LSU. At a certain point the highs become the aberration and the mediocrity the norm

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The difference between a one off national title and 2 in the first 4 years in the program is so astronomical you couldn't even begin to wrap your head around it.

He's had one bad team.

2022 - decent team left with zero pitching depth and no quality SEC starter. An out away from hosting a super. - DECENT TEAM
2023 - national title - ELITE TEAM
2024 - replaced 6 position players and entire starting rotation, an out away from hosting a super. - AVERAGE TEAM
2025 - national title - ELITE TEAM
2026 - replaced entire rotation, injuries, portal additions didn't perform, missed tournament - BAD TEAM

So in 5 years he had one bad team, when you actually look at the facts of the situation and don't act like a toddler.

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he staff obviously misplayed the situation but it seems ridiculous in the portal era to have it open up while teams are potentially hundreds of miles away playing in a super regional or in Omaha playing for a national title.

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Yes the portal window in college baseball is absolute bull shite and needs to be changed asap

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Yeah, it's bad. This was the math I did in another thread.

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The calendar needs to be fixed. The portal opened on June 2. LSU was playing games until June 23, with 13 of those days (June 10-June 23) being in Omaha. The Draft Combine is June 13-17. Then the draft is July 13-15. It's not like football where you can host guys for weeks and weeks while still playing in the post season. Guys you want are likely playing the first weekend. That leaves you with about 5 days to really talk to guys between game/travel schedule prior to Omaha.

Then imagine if you're looking at a guy playing on the second weekend (16 teams). You get what, a day with them before Omaha? If everything lines up perfectly?

Teams that sit at home should not get a 10 day head start to recruit players because they faltered. It will (likely) help us this season, sure. But it was ridiculous that Tony was doing in-home's with Landon Mack last year while Jay was stuffing DVH in a locker 1000 miles away.

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Don't forget to leave out the responses:

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Zach Lee To Amp Hill

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one of the players said last year that the team didn't have much of a team aspect. Johnson proceeded to bring in another bunch of mercenaries.

everybody thinks Tanks and Skenes won that CWS. it wasn't. it was Pearson, Dugas, Beloso, Milazzo, Morgan, etc.

Louisiana kids who are gonna die for the uniform. I'm not saying transfers aren't important but way too much of the team is transfers every year.

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I hated those "mercenaries" like Danny Dickinson who came here to play SS but took 2B and played through a broken hand, Anthony Eyanson who closed out a regional 3 days after throwing 100 pitches, Michael Brasswell who played perfect defense despite being a black hole at the plate, Chris Stanfield who transferred here to hit in the 9 hole, or Zac Cowan who transferred in to take a smaller role in the bullpen. Don't even get me started on that immigrant Luis Hernandez.

Then those scrappy Louisiana boys like Derek Curiel, Steven Milam, Chase Shores, Casan Evans and Jared Jones.

Yeah, Frey, Brown, and Anderson were awesome. But we had dogs from all over the world, all walks of life, and all ages.

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I bleed purple and gold through and through but why would we want to make the tourney? Serious question, it’s not like we were misssimg pieces and all of a sudden found them and are a hot team. We get into the tourney and get sent to UCLA to get murdered on national TV twice? I’ve accepted this year isn’t our year and it happens. I dont want to be embarrassed

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I don't want to go deep in the tournament, but it's not because I fear we'll be "embarrassed."

This team won't win it all. I'd love for them to get regional experience and then get bounced. Portal opens on June 1. I want Jay free and clear from that date forward.

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It would've had Cole Henry, Jaden Hill, and Landon Marceaux as starters, would've been much better in the field.

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Jaden Hill didn't start, and we lost a Cole Henry-Jaden Hill-Devin Fontenot game to Eastern Kentucky. We got no-hit by Oklahoma.

That team would've been horrendous.

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This team just isn’t very good and it sucks. It’s not the first time and won’t be the last. Hopefully we get better and return to winning championships. It is what it is.

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I wish more of the fanbase understood this.

There's nothing wrong with saying "this season was unacceptable and we need to get it fixed."

What is wrong is adding the next sentence to that like this morons do on here. "This season was bad, we need to get it fixed, and otherwise Jay needs to be fired because he's not a good coach and only won because of Paul Skenes." That extra sentence drives me up a fricking wall.