re: Gotta admit, it’s going to be bittersweet not seeing Paul Mainieri in that doug out.

As a program hell no.One year doesn’t make them better than anybody.LSU is a national brand in baseball dipshit.Let me know when Tennessee ever has a recruiting class with 11 of the top 100 players.Kids across the country dream of playing for LSU that is what makes us a top 5 program,one year doesn’t define what our program is dumbass

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Kids across the country dream of playing for LSU that is what makes us a top 5 program,one year doesn’t define what our program is dumbass

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I didn’t realize it was 2010 still. My bad.

We were talking 5th ranked in the sec. And preseason rankings mean nothing. Literally nothing. Same with recruiting rankings. This isn’t football, ranter.

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I appreciate much of what Paul did with the program after Smoke almost killed it.

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Paul's last three years: 117-76, 45-45 SEC

Smoke's last three years: 121-65, 49-41 SEC

Paul's last year: 38-23, 13-17 SEC

Smokes' last year 35-24; 13-17 SEC

If we are talking national, it’s even worse. We aren’t some powerhouse like we used to be. The kids we are recruiting and getting to campus were born after Skip. They’ve only been alive for one championship and they were toddlers when it happened. Your perception is way off.

We are talking about where a program is right now. And if we look at the last 3 years, we can see a bad trend for LSU and an upward trend for Tennessee. They’re in a better place right now overall. Now maybe this year sees us bounce back and them fall off, but this year hasn’t happened. You can’t play “maybe” and “if” games. It’s not based on reality.

ETA: And this was an SEC discussion. This is what kicked it off:

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Now LSU baseball is no longer considered the best in the SEC. Not even a top 5 program but yeah thanks Paul

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ETA2: And the fan base and facilities have been shite for a decade. We built a stadium that was behind the times when it was finished. And the fans only show up for supers now. OU and State were the only times the new box resembled the old. Take off the P&G glasses.

Vitello is a douche and we never offered him the job, so he didn’t choose Tennessee over LSU.


But you are correct that we have fallen behind other SEC teams. When has there ever been a Catholic High kid choose another SEC school over LSU? (David Delucci in the early 90s wasn’t offered a scholarship at LSU)

Right now a pitcher at Catholic High is committed to Mississippi State.

I’m right, he’s a douche

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Right now a pitcher at Catholic High is committed to Mississippi State.

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And two of his teammates are committed to LSU, so what.

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we never offered him the job

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The kids we are recruiting and getting to campus were born after Skip. They’ve only been alive for one championship and they were toddlers when it happened.

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now list how many titles Tennessee has in their lifetimes.

hell, just count Super Regional appearances in their lifetimes.

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Your perception is way off. We are talking about where a program is right now. And if we look at the last 3 years, we can see a bad trend for LSU and an upward trend for Tennessee.

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we’ve been to Supers round more often than they have in the last 3 seasons too.
in fact, we’ve fallen short of Super Regionals once in the last 6 full seasons. (no we don’t get to guess what would have happened in 2020)

Tennessee has reached the Super Regional round once in the last 15 years.

People are pouncing on Tenn being 5th in my top 5 when I could have easily put USCe there instead. Either way, LSU isn’t top 5 in the SEC. No one is arguing against the other 4.