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re: Honest answers here, what do you feel should be the floor for lsu baseball each season

Posted on 6/4/24 at 9:45 am to
Posted by Fat Bastard
alter hunter
Member since Mar 2009
91121 posts
Posted on 6/4/24 at 9:45 am to
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This season was a failure.


naw you are a failure. it has been laid out ad infinitum what we had to deal with this year. You are too fn stupid to see it.
Posted by GEAUX4
Louisiana
Member since Feb 2018
402 posts
Posted on 6/4/24 at 10:01 am to
This just isn’t true, personnel-wise we should have been better, or at least more consistent. Failure
Posted by double d
Amarillo by morning
Member since Jun 2004
17171 posts
Posted on 6/4/24 at 10:49 am to
It's a new world with the NIL and the 4 Big Conference paying athletes, Players won't be loyal with money involved so movement will be constant. For any program to be dominate year in year out will be incredibly hard.
Posted by Scoob
Near Exxon
Member since Jun 2009
23555 posts
Posted on 6/4/24 at 1:51 pm to
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Our goal should be to host a Regional every year. But it is unreasonable to EXPECT to host one every year, IMO.
I'm going to disagree with that.

It's unreasonable for most programs to expect that, but LSU isn't most programs. We like to boast that we're the premier team in the sport. If you're going to talk the talk, you have to walk the walk, otherwise it's pathetic.

SEC should have 4-5 hosts every year. LSU should expect to be top 4 in the SEC every year.

Is it unreasonable for UConn and Duke to expect to be at least a 4 seed in March Madness annually? Is it unreasonable for Alabama and Ohio State to expect to be in the College Football Playoffs?
I don't think so, and LSU baseball should hold themselves to the same standard.

Southern Miss and East Carolina expect to make a regional every year. We're supposed to be better than that, so expecting to host would be the next tier.
Posted by FreddieMac
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2010
24922 posts
Posted on 6/4/24 at 3:43 pm to
Make the post season. Make it to Omaha on the pace that Skip did and win natties at a bit less % than Skip did.

By the standards being placed on JJ by the idiots on this board, Skip would have been fired in 92, not making it out of the regionals, after he failed to repeat after his 91 championship, even though that team won the conference tourney and regular season SEC championship.
This post was edited on 6/4/24 at 3:49 pm
Posted by TigerinKorea
Member since Aug 2014
8888 posts
Posted on 6/4/24 at 3:45 pm to
Super-regional.
Posted by chalmetteowl
Chalmette
Member since Jan 2008
54851 posts
Posted on 6/4/24 at 4:49 pm to
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If he wins that title in 2013 or 2015 instead of 2009, then the anxiety doesn't build in the immediate aftermath of losing in 2017.


If he doesn’t win the title in 09, does he make it to 13 or 15?
Posted by Hondo Blacksheep
Member since Jul 2022
3141 posts
Posted on 6/4/24 at 4:54 pm to
Good answer.

I would say making the tournament and playing in a regional is our acceptable floor. Hosting is great, a super is better still, and the CWS is what it's all about.

PS - props to LSU Eunice for winning their eighth D2 natty!
Posted by v1vrv2
Tioga, LA
Member since Nov 2009
19 posts
Posted on 6/4/24 at 7:24 pm to
Bravo! Great post
Posted by misey94
Member since Jan 2007
36280 posts
Posted on 6/4/24 at 7:38 pm to
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SEC should have 4-5 hosts every year. LSU should expect to be top 4 in the SEC every year. Is it unreasonable for UConn and Duke to expect to be at least a 4 seed in March Madness annually? Is it unreasonable for Alabama and Ohio State to expect to be in the College Football Playoffs? I don't think so, and LSU baseball should hold themselves to the same standard.


Some people in this thread and others keep crying about how unrealistic this fanbase is. However, if like these dominant programs in other sports listed above, LSU wants to be consistently among the top 3-5 college baseball programs, then the expectations have to match that. frick mediocrity and excuses and do what’s necessary to get there.
Posted by Scoob
Near Exxon
Member since Jun 2009
23555 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 6:20 am to
quote:

quote:

SEC should have 4-5 hosts every year. LSU should expect to be top 4 in the SEC every year. Is it unreasonable for UConn and Duke to expect to be at least a 4 seed in March Madness annually? Is it unreasonable for Alabama and Ohio State to expect to be in the College Football Playoffs? I don't think so, and LSU baseball should hold themselves to the same standard.



Some people in this thread and others keep crying about how unrealistic this fanbase is. However, if like these dominant programs in other sports listed above, LSU wants to be consistently among the top 3-5 college baseball programs, then the expectations have to match that. frick mediocrity and excuses and do what’s necessary to get there.
Yeah, I don't get why anyone would downvote this.

Nobody is saying to fire Jay Johnson right now, he IS coming off a national title.
But this year should be considered sub-par, below expectations, and it shouldn't be treated like a success. We finished 13-17 in the SEC, and on the road in a regional, after starting the year ranked #2. That's not where we want to be, and it shouldn't be accepted as the baseline of the program going forward. If we don't make a run in the SEC tourney, we're a 3 seed; if we don't sweep Ole Miss in addition we may have sat home.

There's nothing wrong with expecting a season on par with, say, UGA's: you enter the final series comfortably hosting, with nothing left to prove. UGA got a national seed despite losing 2 of 3 to Fla, and going 0-1 in the tourney. And they weren't even in the mix for the SEC title, they just tooled along and had a good season.
That should be our baseline- expect to host, even when we don't contend for the SEC.
Posted by ArcticTiger
North Pole
Member since Nov 2018
2861 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 10:12 am to
15-15 in SEC and in position to host a Regional.
Posted by Supermoto Tiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2010
10780 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 10:15 am to
The floor for LSU baseball every season:
To host the regional - and win it.
To host the Super Regional
Posted by Gorilla Ball
Az via La
Member since Feb 2006
13261 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 10:22 am to
It’s tough because of rosters being so fluid. But I would expect post season regionals every year
Posted by SteveLSU35
Shreveport
Member since Mar 2004
15077 posts
Posted on 6/5/24 at 10:24 am to
My idea for major sports for a successful season.

Football: 10 wins

Basketball: make the tourney / win one game there.

Baseball: make a super regional

If you do that you’ll put yourself in a good place to win a championship once a decade.
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