re: LSU please make on offer on SB's hitting coach

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And when we're still getting 4 hits a game what will be your next brilliant idea?

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So what's the problem/solution?

The problem is the hitting approach or lack there of.

So did we need a new hitting coach in 2009 too?

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You're right. It isn't the hitting coach. LSU just can't recruit hitters. I am pretty sure over the last 4 years we have only been offering scholarships to HS players that played on their teams' bench. Yup, no hitting talent recruited here. No need to blame coaching. We would get 4 hits a game under any coach. No need to assume that any halfway decent coach should regularly get 5+ runs a game out of a team with LSU's recruiting. Yup, nothing to see here, move along now.

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So we recruit good hitters, but then coach them into the ground thereby negating their talent?


OK

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This place is painful to stay around when LSU isn't performing well 100% of the time.

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So you're satisfied with a top 3 program like LSU not getting to Omaha in the last 3 years. Gotcha.

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This place is painful to stay around when LSU isn't performing well 100% of the time.

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You can critique a successful program that isn't being the best they can be by not making the obvious change. LAST year the pitching overachieved above the hitting. PM hit a homerun in the new hire for pitching coach, but the pitching had no business being better than abysmal last year, and yet they held their own in many instances. We had a freshman that throws in the low 80s as a Friday starter for God's sakes!

Its called perspective, recognizing what PARTS of the whole aren't achieving near their best.

Consistency at the mound is the #1 duty of a pitching coach, consistency at the plate is the #1 duty of a hitting coach. When we have a team that leads the SEC in batting average but consistently can't make the big hit against mediocre pitching, that is a hitting coach issue.

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so you think these guys are being developed to hit at the college level?

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were they in 2009? i'm sure the method of coaching hasn't changed

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So he gets a free pass forever? Untimely instances near shutout games are tolerated forever because Javy was on staff in 2009?

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that's not my point. maybe these guys just are not very good hitters, regardless of who's coaching them

And that's the problem. It hasn't changed but because of the bats the game has. LSU had multiple double digit home run players on the 2009 team. That's not likely to ever be the case again. But yet the approach still seems to be to rely on power. I have only seen a few guys, Nola, Rhymes and Edward consistently go the other way with the ball. Everyone else tries to pull everything, thus all the ground outs to the middle infield and weak fly balls.