re: Barring injuries lsu baseball should host a regional

Ok... does that detract from the initial assertion that LSU should expect to be hosting a regional, and frankly be one of the national seeds every season?

We surpassed Miss State in the late 80's as the preeminent SEC baseball program; we have 7 CWS titles to their 1. Ole Miss never challenged until recently. We made this "our" sport over that stretch, and never de-emphasized it.

Look at it this way- a national seed is top 8. A regional host is 9-16. Basketball equivalent would be a 1 to 4 seed in March Madness annually.

Are we, or are we not, the baseball equivalent of Duke, UNC, or Kansas in basketball? Do you NOT think those teams enter every season with the expectation that they will be a high seed in the NCAA tournament, that being something like a 10 seed would be a disappointment?

If that's the case for those programs, it should be the standard we hold LSU baseball to also. We shouldn't even be conceding that we can't compete for the SEC title vs Arkansas, Vanderbilt etc.

I'm directing this towards that large portion of our fanbase that struts around like peacocks, bragging about our 7 national titles and claiming we're the best program in America. If we are that, then we need to BE that consistently. Otherwise, we're acting like Kentucky basketball fans, boasting about their history when they can't win the SEC anymore.