re: At some point our Baseball Program has to show development from within

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This has been an extremely rough schedule for a team with so many sophomores and freshmen playing in the line up.

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What?

Ok, this narrative needs to end. It's an average SEC schedule. Nothing more. We played Florida and lost 2 of 3 at home. Florida is 19-17 overall and 7-8 in the SEC. Lost series to Miss State and Vandy; State is 7-8, and the only reason Vandy isn't below .500 in conference is because they beat us in the Box.
LSU will play SEC teams every year, because we're in that conference. And LSU SHOULD expect to win series against teams struggling to stay above .500 in the conference. Especially home series. Because we're not just an SEC team, we're supposed to be one of the elite, premier programs in the SEC and in ALL of college baseball. If Arkansas is ranked #1 and we go play them, that's supposed to be a must-see event.

You're not going to see Alabama try to shrug off a terrible football season by saying "oh, we're ok, we're just young and the schedule is extremely rough". The schedule is what you knew it would be, and every team has to follow the same rules for filling the rosters. Nobody keeps elite players a decade, this isn't MLB or the NFL.