re: Rabalais “CWS less summer leaves many questions about LSU, most are bad

Alex Box Mystique?
The crowds were phenomenal for both regional and super regional and on par with any regionals hosted at LSU that I can remember.
I don't care where you play, when you make as many mistakes as LSU made in the two games against FSU you are not going to make it out of a regional or super regional.
They almost overcame most of the mistakes and it's probably a miracle LSU was even in the first game with ten walks and actually led most of it.
They definitely had their chances in game 2 and had they found a way to win that one, I think they use that motivation and come out and win game 3.

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a dominant program

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pm defenders claim that there can't be a dominant program any more. there's too much parity. however, bama is definitely dominating cfb and baseball is does not have more parity than cfb. no way. coach k is clearly at the top of cbb and baseball does not have more parity than cbb. no way.

second, there is a middle ground between where lsu was in the 90's or dominating and where lsu is now. several other programs are in that space despite a lesser investment in the sport. if i'm ad, i'm not seeing an roi commensurate with my investment in the sport. that calls for significant changes, whatever those options are.

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Gonna throw some stats out

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i have not oversimplified the issue and just given lsu expectations out of context. i am looking at the landscape of college baseball and lsu is getting surpassed by other programs. what's ironic is the pm defenders scoff at those programs and their coaches yet, they are outperforming pm in cws results.

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This isn’t a great program under him

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"great" is a subjective word. pm has been very very good. the way i would describe it is he is falling just short of where the program should be. there's not many programs that have won as much as he has however, the bar is slightly higher than that for the premier program.

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there’s no Alex Box mystique. No home field advantage

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pm defenders assert that lsu is not clearly #1 in facilities. they are wrong and i have factually substantiated that multiple times. lsu is 2nd to none in regards to facilities. other programs have closed the gap in some regards but no one is across the board superior. think about what's happening. the pm bots are denigrating their own team in order to prop up pm. i can't fathom why that is the case. does he have incriminating evidence on them?

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Is that what the program with more resources than any other in college baseball should be happy with?

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this is the question i have been asking for at least 3 years now. lesser programs are surpassing lsu. why are people ok with that? why are they making excuses?

Paul, be the bigger man, pick up the phone and call Holy Cross High School.

Why so many pitcher injuries year after year

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pm is winning a lot.

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Uh, no he’s not. We’re 79-57 over the past two seasons. 32-28 in SEC play. That’s not “a lot” in my book.

That’s a .580 winning percentage overall and .533 in SEC play. That’s not acceptable with this program.

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No you don't but you do have to have solid pitching and LSU relied heavily on freshman this year. It was evident we didn't have an ace on the staff so to speak. Walker and Hess were not what they were projected to be. I think the pitching staff held there own in a few games(in the postseason) that the hitting did not. No excuse for the lack of production at the plate. The only changes that need to be made are addressing the staff as far as the offense is concerned. That has to be figured out and if PM does not change anything going into next year and the results are the same I think PM needs to be talked into retiring. 3 years in a row would be completely inexcusable

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My internal projections for Hess as the #1 for 2019 went very accurately. It is also very difficult to project how a guy does his first season back from TJ, Walker fits that profile and will likely be consistently better next season. The pitching staff returning for next season should be much better and deeper than what has returned the past few seasons. I mean, the last time in Omaha LSU again had a very thin pitching staff and losing Walker at the end did them in. I don't think this team had very good player leadership, either. My biggest issue with this team was the same repetitive poor decisions in the field (even many WTF moments on terrible throws to 1B), catching prior to Garza settling in, and the hole of suck throwing down to 2B. Saw very little plate protection to extend AB's. I don't attempt to understand the massive number of pitching injuries other than the program needs to change/improve to protect arms. With no guys being able to supplant Hughes and Broussard, and needing to recall Reid, no one should be surprised with how this season went. If PM makes no staff changes things will get interesting in 2020.

I agree. LSU should be the most successful program in the nation. We’re far from it.

How about hiring someone that can be the recruiting coordinator and hitting coach.

Same people that kept LM around too long have kept PM around too long IMHO.

So, in this case it will take some type of steep, sudden decline before some new coach gets a shot to bring LSU BB back to elite status again.

Will the new AD see things differently? We shall see.

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Hint Hint, I don't care if he's banging coeds 2 or 3 at a time if they're legal.

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Do you care if he’s obsessively texting these coeds to the detriment of his job and the team?