re: Pre conference baseball schedule

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I think we got unexpectedly slapped in the face by MissSt and failed to recover while playing 4 straight series after that against elite competition that had a target on us. Florida Game2 was devastating and Arkansas put us in a tailspin, everyone questioning WTF is happening here, rightfully so.

Honestly there’s no shame in losing any of the series we’ve lost, individually by themselves. It’s just losing them all has everyone mindblown, team included probably

Game2 against Florida and Game2 against Vandy are pivotal moments of the season IMO. I’d say game2 against Florida was the defining one moment of the season unfortunately. 2 series we could have won, and we fricked around and didn’t.

It very well may be those 2 games that keep us from going 500 in the league , not even getting into the possible momentum that could have been created from those 2 wins which would have been series wins

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I'm not saying fire the coach, but if that's the case, then this is on Johnson.

At some point leadership is ultimately on the coach, and if the team's collective psyche is so fragile that one road series can wreck your entire season, the coach has failed his team. This team isn't a Top 5 as per the preseason rankings, but they shouldn't be getting skull-drug in the SEC either. My prediction would have been 5 more wins so far- 1 in each of the series. We should have taken Miss State, Florida, and Vandy, and a game from Arkansas and Tennessee. That's what should have been expected, and that would have us squarely in line to host a regional (and in place to make a run the next month.
This was not an overwhelmingly tough schedule, as some try to claim- Miss State and Florida are not that good, and Vandy is certainly beatable. We just have been even worse than the competition. We seem to lack the edge we usually have, the edge that would have finished out those lost W's. Our games seem to be competitive until the 6th-7th innings, and then both pitching and batting both freeze up. I've never seen an LSU baseball team so scared in the later innings, as this one appears to be.