How would a loss this weekend affect your view of CPM?

If Cannizzaro beats Mainieri in a super regional, Mainieri will brag on the success of his coaching tree while he throws Beau Jordan under the bus for K'ing too much. Win/win.

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This would be CPM's 3rd home postseason loss in the past 5 years. Combine that with his CWS record of 1-4 in LSU's last 2 trips there

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I think this is where people are getting worn out with Paul. He's phenomenal at closing a season out and killing it in Hoover, making our hopes go sky-high. Then Houston and Stony Brooke happen. I give him a pass on last year. We lost to the National Champion.

A loss this weekend wouldn't really affect my opinion, just remind me to temper my optimism if/when we make another run next year.

Dafuq is wrong with you?

Who thinks this way without saying knock on wood?

Don't worry about what isn't going to happen.

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SaintNTiger

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You seriously suck as a poster.

I did an in-depth review of MSU's season and individual stats.

This team is very, very good. They've lost a lot of close games.

Their pitching situation isn't as bad as people here make it out to be. Their bullpen has a couple of studs, one of whom threw a CG in the regionals.

Starting pitching after Pilkington is anyone's guess, but it won't matter because none of their other starters go more than 5 with that one exception.

They have 5 really good hitters, two average-to-above-average hitters and two holes in the lineup.

It's going to be a tough series and anyone assuming our road sweep makes this an easy SR draw is fooling themselves.

That said, with Smith and Watson heating up, I like our chances and think we'll take the series. I won't predict if we do it in 2 games or 3.

ETA: Per CPM, it wouldn't change my opinion much unless a bonehead decision on his part costs us the series. If the players lose, so be it. MSU will have earned it at that point.

Only way my opinion changes is if CPM does something dumb that turns a win into a loss.

I just hope he figures out early on if Poche has it in game 2. If not, I hope he pulls him early enough to limit the damage and keep the game close. Same could be said for all starting pitchers, but Lange has shown he can give you 4-5 innings of shutout ball after a rocky start.

I wouldn't be surprised. All the people starting the "I told you so threads" about Lsu having success....all of us who question pm do so not because of his performance in the sec or sec trny, or regional. We do so with the results of the supers and CWs over the last several years. That's the benchmark for Lsu...getting to Omaha and competing there. No one is arguing his success in the sec or regional 4.

He is a fantastic coach no mater what happens this weekend, but he could become great with at least 1 more national championship. This year is his best chance in some time and based on his age this could be his last chance.


If they lose 2 out of 3 to the Dawgs this weekend I will consider 2009 the anomaly and he is simply a fantastic REGULAR SEASON coach, nothing more.

As disappointing as PM's postseason losses are, we have to realize there's so much more parity in college baseball than even a decade ago. In the last 5 years, only 16 out of 40 national seeds made it to the college world series. That matches LSU's percentage of 2 out of 5.