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VagueMessage

Favorite team:	Arkansas
Location:	Springdale, AR
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re: College baseball futility

Posted by VagueMessage on 6/2/26 at 5:38 pm to lsufball19

Coastal Carolina has a unique brand of efficiency. They're not a team that would ever be expected to compete, and they've only made the CWS twice. But they finished as the national champions and the runner-up for those two appearances.

re: Baseball

Posted by VagueMessage on 5/29/26 at 9:07 pm to UltimateHog

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I really wish we got paired with UCLA, they are so overrated. 2-2 with Saint Mary's in the 8th.

I didn't see them losing game one against Saint Mary's in their own Regional, but UCLA has reminded me of a shittier 2021 Arkansas or 2022 Tennessee all year. The record is impressive, and they ARE good, but they've won a concerning number of games by thin margins due to a late offensive surge that provided just enough output. Most of their competition has been lackluster, at that. Those emotionally invested will call it being "clutch," but it's a trend that Arkansas fans are too familiar with.

They've had Super Regional heartbreak tattooed on their forehead all year, but we'll see how they respond.

re: You really have to appreciate what Kiffin did for Ole Miss.

Posted by VagueMessage on 5/27/26 at 3:46 pm to crimsoncoded94

I appreciate more what he did for Tennessee.

re: Stoerner wants Nutt back at Arkansas

Posted by VagueMessage on 5/21/26 at 11:24 pm to beebefootballfan

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In any coaching capacity....heck no

He could handle being the RB coach. I doubt he'd be satisfied with it, though.

re: Saturday SEC Baseball

Posted by VagueMessage on 5/16/26 at 6:30 pm to borotiger

I'm just saying I bet they'd find Regionals Auburn a much different animal when they don't have the luxury of being a designated trap game.

re: Saturday SEC Baseball

Posted by VagueMessage on 5/16/26 at 6:23 pm to borotiger

They're also 41–13 and have been playing like a fringe top 25 team all year. Auburn can't exactly afford to throw the kitchen sink at a midweek game with an SEC opponent coming up, but Jacksonville State is both good enough to take that game and greatly benefits by doing so. They're so much stronger than the bulk of their conference that they can still take 2/3 on the weekend.

re: SEC baseball should be split into two conferences

Posted by VagueMessage on 5/11/26 at 1:43 pm to Pimphand

USC, with 12 national championships in baseball, has a field that seats only 2,500 people. In a place with perfect weather 12 months of the year.

re: Baseball

Posted by VagueMessage on 5/9/26 at 3:10 pm to Drewbie

Then it sounds like we should be praying for a 2-seed :lol:

re: Baseball

Posted by VagueMessage on 5/9/26 at 9:32 am to Drewbie

You say "another" year like it happens often, lol. The last time we were a 2-seed was in 2022, and 2015 before that (we did miss the tourney altogether in 2016, though).

Interestingly, both of those times were the Stillwater Regional, and both times we advanced to the CWS.

re: Baseball

Posted by VagueMessage on 5/4/26 at 1:58 pm to Drewbie

[[double post]]

re: Baseball

Posted by VagueMessage on 5/4/26 at 1:58 pm to Drewbie

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Might as well quit watching every sport we play if this is what it takes to show up for a game.

I agree with this. And furthermore, even the CWS isn't the goal every year. We're occasionally going to have disappointing years like this one where we weren't who we thought we were (and it's still always possible for us to get hot during the Regionals and go on a run), but the tournament in baseball is not the same as basketball. Getting to host the Regionals and Super Regionals is an insane advantage, especially to a team that has a home crowd advantage like Arkansas. When you're in the top five - if not #1 - when the Regionals roll around, and you just DO NOT lose at home, you should be a lock for the CWS 90% of the time.

As tiring as it is to keep falling short for seemingly no reason, it's gotten even more frustrating in that nothing ever gets done about it. There seems to be no investigation into what goes wrong. No one gets replaced. No philosophy gets changed. We just try it again next year to the same results.

How can you really blame people for being tepid?

re: Baseball

Posted by VagueMessage on 5/4/26 at 1:52 pm to UltimateHog

Stetson was a weekend series, lol. It went four games, but we still split with them.

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re: Baseball

Posted by VagueMessage on 5/3/26 at 9:51 pm to Maytheporkbewithyou

I'm not sure I fully agree with him, but it's not fickle. In 2021, 2023, and 2024 we were ranked #1 for most of the year, all three years. We didn't lose a single home series one time in any of those three seasons. We didn't make it out of Fayetteville in any of the three. I'm not saying we need to win the CWS every year, but when you're the consensus #1 team who has never lost at home, you don't lose at home for the first time during the postseason. You at least make it to Omaha for a two and queue.

Then we had the dropped ball debacle in 2018 that would have made all of this moot, had we brought home the trophy we deserved.

Then we spend time as a top ten team in 2017, only to get eliminated in the Fayetteville regional again. We at least lost one other home series that year.

We've found embarrassing ways to become choke artists over 50% of the time since 2017, and people are getting tired of it going on a full decade later. At least this year we were just overrated and not legitimately a contender, only to lose the very second losing starts to matter for the first time in 60 games.

Getting your hopes up to that degree and then having the fall is no way to live every other season. All while eight of the other 15 conference members win a national championship during DVH's tenure. I don't blame anyone for losing patience at this point.

re: Where are all the LSU baws on here that used to try and convince us baseball was

Posted by VagueMessage on 5/3/26 at 9:31 pm to koreandawg

LSU fans are fricking insufferable about the sports they're good at, but I don't think a single one of them has tried to say baseball is objectively as important as football.

re: Enjoy a free t-shite from the Razorback foundation

Posted by VagueMessage on 4/29/26 at 9:23 pm to Gatorbait2008

Right, I was thinking they should have led with that.

re: Douchiest baseball name Arkansas vs Missouri edition

Posted by VagueMessage on 4/24/26 at 10:29 am to hogminer

"Allow me the pleasure of introducing you to... Blaide.. Laizer... Blaizer..."

re: Pittman told Georgia o-line recruits to stick with Georgia

Posted by VagueMessage on 4/20/26 at 12:10 pm to hawgfaninc

I loved him because of his massive tits. Something nice to look at on the sidelines while our team was cosplaying as the bottoms in the world's hardest core gay porno every Saturday in the fall.

re: Auburn, tell me about your baseball team

Posted by VagueMessage on 4/19/26 at 11:14 pm to OU Guy

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why not more wins?

They were only allowed to play us three times.

re: Thursday SEC Baseball

Posted by VagueMessage on 4/16/26 at 10:47 pm to AGGIES

It's not just being at home. We swept a ranked Alabama on the road last week and getting a sweep on the road is hard enough for us even against a shitty team like South Carolina.

re: Programs Where Their Main Rival Does Not Consider Them Their Main Rival

Posted by VagueMessage on 4/16/26 at 2:50 pm to BreakawayZou83

I never rejected the Missouri rivalry, I think you're the most natural rival we have at this point.

The problem with teams like Arkansas is we have no power conference in-state rival to have built all this storied history with. Arkansas, Missouri, and LSU are the only three SEC teams who don't have that, and LSU is a charter member of the conference, so they have a lot of backstory with a lot of teams. So for us it becomes teams we share a border with, or "what team has pissed us off the most recently," and the problem with that one is if you're not consistently competitive, the team you're pissed at doesn't take you seriously. Back when we were in the SWC our hatred for Texas could be taken more seriously. Then we stopped playing them regularly and football fell off a cliff.

The football series between Mizzou and Arkansas has become lopsided, but the game is basically always settled by one score or less. We just keep coming out on the wrong side of it. You don't really care about baseball, and you keep fricking up basketball hires the same way we keep fricking up football hires, so basketball isn't as fierce of a rivalry as it could be.

There are a lot of similarities between us and Missouri, though. And ARMOgeddon is the coolest rivalry name in the conference, even if the competition itself is usually a slap-off between two barely functional retards.