re: Why is no one blaming the players for poor hitting?

Because this team lacks the cerebral part of batting, not just the talent part. They don't work counts. They swing at off-speed pitches on the corners with less than two strikes but take fastballs in the middle of the plate. They have precious little discipline and can't consitently execute some of the more basic fundamentals like bunting or putting the ball in play in given situations.

You expect to have these problems with an individual batter or even the whole team on a "bad day". But LSU batters consistently had these problems throughout the lineup. That indicates a coaching problem.

Sorry this is a bit long, but you asked a question, so here you go:

Because the problems at the plate are not seen with just a few individual players. The problems are pervasive throughout the entire line-up and they have not been addressed at all, by this coaching staff. They cannot recognize pitches and are guessing most of the time, even against average pitchers. They appear to be clueless about the situation they are hitting in far too often, and both of these issues are the result of poor instruction/lack of instruction.

When your best hitter credits his hitting success to his coaches at LSU-E with no mention of his current coach, there is a huge problem. When Raph got hot at the beginning of the season and his average just kept going up and up, Mainieri even made a point of talking about the strategy used by the coach at LSU-E to turn him into a great singles hitter by changing his approach at the plate. Then you see him not only cool off, as was to be expected at some point, but go into a real slump with no signs of coming out of it, and there was no evidence of any intervention on Javi's part to help him.

Kids can't always tell exactly what they are doing wrong and thus can't really tweak things on their own. That is what Javi is being paid to do, and he has quite simply failed. He has failed LSU and most importantly he has failed these kids. It is way past time for him to go. Our players deserve a real hitting coach who will work with them to maximize their potential during their time at LSU.

The players are doing what the coach told them to do, or else they don't see the plate and are eventually asked to leave LSU.

It's America these days it's everywhere from the teacher is terrible cause she gave my baby an f, to always pointing the finger at somebody standing on the sidelines over the person on the field. The new America is now the home of excuses and pointing the finger, forget home of the brave I think he already has 75 pitches he may get hurt cause we raise pussies these days

Stony Brook's strengths this weekend were LSU's weaknesses and it was glaring.

1-9 SB could bunt, hit for contact, force a deep pitch count, were smart base runners.

1-9 LSU looks like 6 year olds bunting the ball, have relatively little plate discipline, mediocre base running.

Those things show me it's coaching.

It happened with basically all 3 starting pitchers. Their three starters combined for something like 25 IP, 9 hits, 4 ER for the starts.

it's not the players fault... Maneri recruited them... his fault.

We won the sec with this talent so not the talent and not the coaches we lost 2-3 on a weekend series it happens

We also led in 1 of 30 innings played.