re: Fire Beth Torino Immediately

It was said it was mutual

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I agree that the defense was also a big problem, but a healthy Berzon would have helped to overcome those limitations. SLU definitely presented matchup problems for LSU and the defense may still have cost them Game 1 even if Berzon were healthy and throwing that game. The offense didn’t do their job in that game either, but there were only a few other losses where you could say they might have won with a good offensive performance. Most of the losses were due to giving up 6+ runs.

It’s really beyond the point of excusing away team performance under Torina, but things really could have been much different the last two years apart from one key injury each year. With Coffey last year, LSU probably makes the WCWS. With a healthy Berzon, they would have been WCWS caliber this year, though SLU may still have derailed them.

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Yep, agree with all that.

Well, it’s not as bad as if we would have lost to a 4 seed…….Oh Wait.

It was mutual and by some accounts she was going to be asked to leave. She was a bad teammate, cancer and needed to move on. Some ppl guess others know.. keep guessing lol btw, how those freshmen doing? How many will be on the roster come August outside of the great pitcher Heavener?

It seems that the University is currently in greater need of a baseball hitting coach.

She simply doesn’t have one million dollars to lure a pitcher to LSU like Texas Tech did.

Okay now boys LoL!! I will try not to add fuel to the fire, although I know that's impossible and interjecting will likely cause just more unnecessary fired shots :-). However....

I agree that Berzon leaving was not a part of the program's plan, and that's okay! Programs lose stud pitchers all the time especially in this time of portal, NIL, booster influence. I do know that she was absolutely hurt a lot of the season. And maybe it was her who insisted on working through it and attempting to pitch to try to help Heavener out but I know she was hurt. Same can be said from last year's team when Pleasant was clearly still injured but played anyway (slapping no less) instead of resting and healing. Who knows? And that's the point--none of us know the whys and attacking players or other posters doesn't change that. at all.

Same with the freshmen. Casual thinks all the freshmen except Heavener suck--I think that makes no sense but its an outlier opinion regardless of why its an opinion. Honestly it is a moot point because they never played anyway so absolutely no college basis to argue they would suck or that they would be "superstars"--THEY DIDN'T PLAY! I too think that if any of them have options once the world series ends we will see most of not all of them in the portal. A couple of them will have options for sure and maybe all of them. They can move on and Casual can get the hefty big girl power he wants. I do think Daniel will probably stick around given her playing time but that could very well change next season after some portal shopping. TigerAssoc felt she was the best to start and it looks like ultimately that is what happened during the season, but I could see them shifting to a big girl power hitting approach given the failures on the back end of the season when it mattered most with runners in scoring position. Daniel may be in jeopardy at that point.

But as for Berzon, I imagine she will find a home and do well where she lands. From what I've heard she is a sweet-but reserved-young lady.