re: Bertmans interview on opening night was accurate

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pulling a pitcher who has a 2 hit shutout after 6 innings is why we lost, bottom line

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2 stats PM did not take into account. 1 is that when faltering after a lot of success as he claims that Bowman was about to have after 5 innings and 2 the success McCune had recently and the possible chance he could resort back to early in the year when he was hit like a drum. Both "hunches" obviously were wrong.

wtf. LSU was as good as anybody and finally put it together late. they absolutely had the team to win it all this year.. and one simple game management would have kept the season going.

you are talking about the offense who put up like 100 runs in 2 weeks?

I said before the season even started this team with Nola and Bregman should at least get to Omaha.

this team is highly talented and put it together late when it mattered most.. they absolutely were capable of winning it all this season.

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you are talking about the offense who put up like 100 runs in 2 weeks?

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no, the one from the rest of the 16 weeks

I compare this baseball loss to Houston Monday to Lsu's football loss to Ole Miss. You don't lose like this and not hear from the piper/pipers. If PM would of left Bouman in for another batter, and lost, all of this would be mute. But he didn't. Same with Ole Piss, if Les would of pulled the reins of Mett, and ran the ball, we might of ended up in the Cotton Bowl. I'll give this the Mora mantra. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.

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I said before the season even started this team with Nola and Bregman should at least get to Omaha.

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This isn't basketball.

Inserting one or two superstars will not have the same affect day in day out.

Also Bregman had an off year until right before the end of the season.

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LSU should make it to Omaha every year.

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The 90's are gone bro.
And this isn't football where all the big schools with all the money are always the better teams.
More schools are pushing baseball more these days.
Scholarship and roster limits keep the playing field closer to even.

We are a spoiled fan base when it comes to baseball, myself included.

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pulling a pitcher who has a 2 hit shutout after 6 innings is why we lost, bottom line

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you are saying we shouldnt have scored more runs?

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Scholarship and roster limits keep the playing field closer to even.

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Bingo, the fact is having a TOTAL of 11.7 scholarships, a max of 27 scholarship players, and a 35 man roster takes away a lot of advantages LSU would ordinarily have.

Couple those things with the problem you have in identifying talent THAT WILL COME TO COLLEGE and be elite players.

People have a football mentality. Football where you sign 25 each year and total 85 is not like baseball. In football you can sign 2 or 3 TBs a year, 3 or 4WRs, 5or ^ DBs, etc. In baseball you get a shortstop, a catcher, etc. Two stud players at the same position aren't coming to your school.

In football you have scouts in house watching film half the day, you have 7 or 8 coaches on the road scouting and going to high schools, and the recruiting services are more refined.

Baseball recruiting is the hardest thing to do. Look at the MLB draft and it's amazing how many misses MLB has in the first round. Compare the NFL draft with the MLB draft and it's easy to see just how hard it is to judge baseball talent.