re: If coaches and team are going to take the mid-week games off, should the fans do the same?

Learn what? That midweek games DO count in the rankings at the end of the year? Yes they do. And it is embarrassing for this program to lose to teams that do not have even ONE player that could be invited to be a walk-on at LSU. Oh yea, the best hitter on Southern's team didn't even play tonight! He has serious power and might have provided further damage.
Face it - same thing I have been saying for several years. We are not a good hitting team. Bad approaches. Bad disciplines. Too many fly balls, too may weak ground balls and way too many strike outs.
Keep telling yourself "it doesn't matter". Sure you can overcome midweek loses. But why should you have to do so.
Win them all, unless you are trying to play people in midweeks that don't play on weekends. But that is not what PM is doing. The same 8 position players that play every game got 2 freaking hits tonight. Great job!
Jag players will be rubbing that sh%t in when they are in Tigerland on a regular basis and they deserve to do it. 2 Hits!