re: 7 national titles for the 7th best college baseball program

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Even if you forget about the 90's and just judge LSU over the last 10-15 years, how do you put teams like Arkansas, Louisville and especially MSU ahead of us?

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I do find it interesting that so many people take offense to a ranking that represents the end of the Manieri era when the consensus was that the program was in decline and he needed to retire. It says a lot about our expectations for this program that #7 wasn’t good enough.

As to your arguments, they specifically laid out that they were giving the most weight to the last 5 years in their rankings, not 10-15 years. The rankings were before the season started, so they don’t include the title just won. LSU had a 4 year CWS drought and only made the Supers twice in that span. I’m not sure why it’s difficult to see how Miss St with an NC, 3 straight CWS and 5 straight Supers before last year was higher. As I mentioned elsewhere, Louisville had 4 CWS appearances and 7 Supers in the last 9 to 3 and 6 for LSU. Arkansas had made 3 of 4 CWS (and 5 of 10) and 4 straight Supers.