re: LSU&#39;s best team ever

Posted by Tiger1988

Houston

Member since May 2016

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Posted on 5/22/17 at 9:29 pm to lsufball19

quote:

they didn't really change that much from the mid 80s until 1999. The big change happened in 1999 when they went from -5 to -3 and slimmed down the barrel diameter to 2.5 inches. There hadn't been a big change since 1986 when the NCAA imposed a weight limit for bats. Then the obvious next big change was the composite ban following the 2009 season and then the major change of BBCOR in 2011

here's an interesting article on the bat changes and their effects LINK

Thanks! Great info!

Posted by TigerNlc

Chocolate City

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Posted on 5/22/17 at 9:31 pm to bayoubengals01

1998 baseball was my first LSU heartbreak.

Posted by OU812

Greensboro, NC

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Posted on 5/22/17 at 9:37 pm to bayoujd

It had to have been the 1899 team. On Nov. 10 LSU blew out a scrappy Lake Charles High School team, 48-0. LINK

Posted by CapperVin

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Posted on 5/22/17 at 9:53 pm to bayoubengals01

1989

Posted by Malaysian Tiger

Manila

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Posted on 5/22/17 at 11:04 pm to CapperVin

2013 57-11
1997 57-13

Posted by GeorgeTheGreek

Sparta, Greece

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Posted on 5/22/17 at 11:20 pm to Malaysian Tiger

The 2000 team beat Stanford's two aces in the championship game...

Posted by The Boat

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Posted on 5/22/17 at 11:33 pm to GeorgeTheGreek

THE VULCAN CURVE

Posted by GeorgeTheGreek

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Posted on 5/23/17 at 1:56 am to The Boat

Nice memory!

Posted by Relham10

Ridge

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Posted on 5/23/17 at 4:31 am to OU812

Yep I was there.

Posted by lsufan1971

Zachary

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Posted on 5/23/17 at 5:33 am to ell_13

The 1997 roster was loaded top to bottom. Doug Thompson had 158 SO and Patrick Coogan had 144 which are both higher SO#'s than Lange has had in a season.

Posted by majoredinwhitehorse

lower alabama

Member since Nov 2016

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Posted on 5/23/17 at 7:36 am to Ponchy Tiger

97 was best

Pitching staff had 7 home runs (out of 188 total HRs)

Beat Alabama to win the CWS!