Comment Maineiri made after Tulane

Yes I did.. corrected..

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PM said, "that was my mistake... evidently our pitcher isn't capable of pitching in that situation."

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That's not exactly what Mainieri said. You omitted a critical part of his statement which I've underlined below.

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“Obviously, I did the wrong thing walking those batters,” Mainieri said. “It put too much pressure on our pitcher who just wasn’t capable of throwing strikes under those conditions.”

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Mainieri said the bases loaded situation "put too much pressure on our pitcher." Now he knows.....

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Dan, with all due respect, you're an idiot.

In his first few years at LSU, coach PM use to take the spare tire from the bus and throw both the player and the tire under the bus at the same time. He's gotten better over the years. Now he doesn't throw the spare tire under the bus with the player, he just throws the player.

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People dont care about pricks as long as they win though.

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This.

We knew Saban was a prick when he was here. It’s just that he was our prick.

We hate coaches when they "hide the real issues" and then we hate them for being honest. Man we are hard to please.

Let’s get it right if we are going to have this discussion:
1. Beck has been used all season in pressure packed situations and up until that point has proven more than capable of getting out of that with a ground ball. So he chose him with the information he had as we all would.
2. He was upset with Fotenot who had the walk.
3. He was obviously pissed when they interviewed him as he should have been.so maybe he didn’t say exactly what he wanted or maybe he is trying to light a fire under their asses. Either way, it was what it was.

Let’s loom at what happened yesterday...
His 3 best options all year out of the pen gave up 8 freaking runs at the end of the game. That’s not on him... He has to manage what he has and those guys didn’t leave him any options.

“I was afraid they were going to squeeze bunt to try to win the game and I wanted to have a force out there,” Mainieri said of his decision to intentionally walk two batters. “We were getting to the bottom of the order. Their last two hitters are batting .211 and .188. I figured if we’re going to lose, we’ll lose to those guys. They put in a pinch hitter who was hitting under .200. But there’s no defense if you can’t put the ball over the plate.”

With the bases loaded, LSU brought Watson in from center field as a fifth infielder as Tulane’s Luke Glancy came to the plate. The choice didn’t matter, as Beck walked home the winning run on four pitches. After the game, Mainieri admitted fault for the choice to intentionally walk the two batters, saying it put unnecessary stress on Beck.

“Obviously, I did the wrong thing walking those batters,” Mainieri said. “It put too much pressure on our pitcher [Beck at that point] who just wasn’t capable of throwing strikes under those conditions.”

Still, Mainieri pointed to Fontenot’s walk to Artigues as the team’s “undoing,” saying LSU should’ve chosen to attack the hitter instead of pitch around him. Once Artigues walked, Mainieri said, Fontenot was in a “difficult situation” and wasn’t able to recover.

Mainieri is like Saban, recruit great players and you look great. Average players make you look average. LSU doesn’t have great players. In other words great players hide coaching deficiencies. Even Saban makes coaching mistakes, however 5 star recruits help compensate for them. Last year Mainieri had great players.