Is the baseball program sinking into deep doo doo?

i think it's fairly obvious that things aren't headed it the right direction.

I think we will be fine youth hit us hard this year

McCune could be huge in the next few years
Gausman could be huge as well
Rhymes could be a great player in the next few years
Jones could be another great player
i'm sure some others will step up
Katz will be big next year
Ross will be big in the next few years
I'm sure we will continue to get good recruiting classes.
I think we will be fine, last year was a fluke if AR wasn't hurt we would have had alot better year.
this year is youth killing us.
we will be fine IMO

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I think we will be fine youth hit us hard this year McCune could be huge in the next few years Gausman could be huge as well Rhymes could be a great player in the next few years Jones could be another great player i'm sure some others will step up Katz will be big next year Ross will be big in the next few years I'm sure we will continue to get good recruiting classes. I think we will be fine, last year was a fluke if AR wasn't hurt we would have had alot better year. this year is youth killing us. we will be fine IMO

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That's certainly a lot of could there. These players certainly aren't going to get much development from this current crop of coaches.

I know its not an excuse but I think this team will turn around we just need to pull in more good recruiting classes.

In terms of talent, the foundation is in place if Mainieri can just recruit some power hitters for the corner positions, which really shouldn't be too hard. Most of the time you can just fill up those spots with JuCo transfers and do fine.

In terms of coaching, there is a lot of concern about Grewe and Sanchez being in over their heads.

I'm not sure how practice is being run, or how game discipline is being enforced, but there has been a lot of troubling complacency in the style of play this year.

Getting your arse kicked I can tolerate, but it begins to turn into a problem when pitchers refuse to be careful and hitters keep hitting long fly ball outs rather than scrapping for higher OBPs.

We'll see.

No, we have a great recruiting class coming in. Do we have to ask this question after every loss?

Awful lot of sloppy play this season.Coaches have to be accountable.

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No, we have a great recruiting class coming in. Do we have to ask this question after every loss?

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I just asked it after this loss. In case it slipped your razor sharp mind, the team has lost all but one SEC series this year after losing 4 of the last 5 SEC series last season. Do you see a trend?

So we need a big class to right ourselves? This is PM's 5 year, he should be reloading not rebuilding!

What I am concerned about are BASIC plays that LSU is not making. In the Vandy game today, there are runners on first and third with one out. The batter hits the ball sharply right back to the pitcher, Tyler Jones. Instead of trying to turn a double play, Jones holds the runner at third and throws to first. Vandy then scores three runs with two outs when LSU should be out of the inning. This strikes me as the kind of play a decent high school pitcher would know how to handle.

It seems like these kind of plays are happening regularly. Couple that with poor at bats--particularly with runners on base--and it looks like LSU is lost. I know that there are a lot of young players on the team, but there are freshmen and sophomores who are playing well for other teams.

Is this a coaching problem or a playes problem, or both?

Much like Les Miles, I think Paul Mainieri experienced a lot of early success, and then kind of let some big holes in his recruiting classes sneak up on him.

He wasn't used to recruiting at such a high-profile place like LSU and having so many recruits never show up because they signed pro.

So he had to fill this gigantic imbalance in the lack of pitching (see e.g., the 2010 season), and went all-out in the last recruiting class trying to find pitching and catching. But then the imbalanced shifted over to hitting, where the program also had a huge hole, and that's what he's going to have to continue to recruit up until classes start next fall.