re: Regional hosting

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I believe Johnson will be great once he gets his guys in here.

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Are you f*cking shitting me????

The roster Johnson has right now is an embarrassment of riches! Right now, LSU has the talent to be a top 10 team. Johnson has woefully underperformed so far.

What some of you aren’t understanding is that “Great” coaches can win with whoever’s talent they have under them. Just like the famous comment made about Bear Bryant;

“He can take his players and beat you, and he can take your players and beat you.”

I can honestly say I am extremely disappointed with what I have seen under Johnson so far, and even though Johnson was in no way the coach I wanted LSU to hire, I was all in for Tony V and my posts prove it, I thought we would see instant success under Johnson because I actually know him from the San Diego baseball community. We will see, but it looks like we are going to be disappointed in this years results.

So with a lot of the same faces why is the defense/fielding so much worse??

Talented roster??? LOL. average to less than average infielders at every position except 1b. No real starting pitchers. Terrible catchers.

I think Pearson and Stevenson are definitely coming around and will be stars in next two seasons. Dylan Crews and Tre Morgan are great players all around. Berry is our best hitter, IMO.

Our roster has waaay too many talent holes to be called a talented roster.

Say LSU gets swept next weekend at Vandy and can't find a win at hoover, any chance they miss the field altogether? That would put them at eighth or possibly ninth in the conference on a 7-game losing streak.

Pitching talent not so much.

That would be a very likely end.

If not, we’d be a late entry and most likely get sent as a 3 to one of the top seeds.

Oregon State would be my expectation, if we made a Regional.

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I sure hope you’re right but it’s a bad sign that he can’t win with a very talented roster just because it doesn’t perfectly suit his style.

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I feel like the talent on the roster is very overrated. Four guys do not make a roster. Starting Pitching talent is well below average in my opinion.

That’s fine, not gonna attack you for an opinion, I just respectfully disagree.

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I sure hope you’re right but it’s a bad sign that he can’t win with a VERY TALENTED ROSTER just because it doesn’t perfectly suit his style.

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I disagree with this. Yes we have a talented team but we do not have starting pitching and some of those "talented guys" are not performing like they should.

Crews and Berry have been excellent. Morgan has been injured and it has impacted his production at the plate. Dugas was out of the lineup for over a month. Beloso tore his knee and out for the year. Milazzo hurt his knee and has not been behind the plate to solidify that position.

Doughty has gone through the toughest slump in his career which ultimately resulted him kicking two balls around this weekend.

Thompson has had a very rough year.

McManus although he is coming around offensively he is still not a great catcher defensively.

Jobert has become ineffective offensively after the hot start.

Jay will be very successful here, he is doing a lot of the right things and piecing together a staff to give us the best opportunity to win.