re: would lsu make this bold move wednesday

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not true, its based on geography

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Like top seed Miami last year getting paired with the Ann Arbor regional? Yes, there are some geographical leanings for sure, but the top seed is usually not going to be paired with an RPI 9/10 type of team.

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Overrated. The last #1 seed to win it all was Miami in 1999.

All I want is a top 8 seed and I think we all but wrapped that up already.

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ok, so another way to look at it. LSU starts Ross and we lose game 1. Then who knows what happens in game 2 (that's baseball) and we happen to go 0-2 in the SECT while Ole Miss and Florida have strong showings.

Does LSU still have a national top 8 seed? Probably better than 50% chance, but I'd rather not find out the hard way.

Ranaudo and Coleman need to pitch in the SECT. Period.

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Then who knows what happens in game 2 (that's baseball) and we happen to go 0-2 in the SECT while Ole Miss and Florida have strong showings.

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I said this yesterday. That's the only scenario that can possibly take a top 8 seed from us.

If Ross loses game one, then we go with Coleman. He's not likely to have back-to-back bad games.

The SEC tourney is not the time to overextend any pitcher unless you're trying to get into a regional.

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Another way to look at it is Ross is going to have to pitch in some big games down the stretch anyway, might as well get used to it.

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True. I guess I will hope for Ole Miss and Florida both to implode in the process. Then LSU can tinker more in the SECT.

UGA went 0-2 last year at the SECT and still got a national #8 seeding. Of course, they and LSU were the only SEC contenders for national seeds.

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I like starting someone other than Coleman or ranaudo however if you start Coleman or ranaudo tomorrow and keep them on a pitch count they could come back sunday if we get there

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if LSU gets to Sunday in the SECT, then all bets would be off, imo. It'd be nice to win, but probably some guys who need a little more seasoning would see the field at several positions.

As for pitching, there would only be 4 days rest before the Regionals start on the following Friday.

It was necessary for us to win the SECT last year, I think we can all agree we have bigger goals this year. With our lack of depth on the mound, making the SECT championship game might be more of a negative rather than a positive.

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I guess I will hope for Ole Miss and Florida both to implode in the process.

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I can see Florida imploding, but Bianco has had pretty good SEC tourney success as of late. I think OM needs Bittle to make it to the championship game. If Bittle can't pitch, then I don't think they make it that far. And I know Irwin has pitched pretty good for them as of late, but he's still not close as the level of Bittle.

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Skip did this every year in postseason, and we all know about his 5 championships in 10 years.

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Skip didn't place much emphasis on winning the SEC tourney. He wanted to play enough games to get all his pitchers some work. But he didn't start any starter more than once. I think Skip only won 3 tourneys, not counting those wacky divisional tourneys.

In the regionals, he didn't start his ace or his #2 guy. Ben Saxon started the 2000 regional over Brian Tallet and Hunter Gomez. Prior to that, we had the old 6 team format where he did the same thing. It made no sense throwing your ace against the 6 seed.

Skip knows baseball.

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if we lose we could still win two with ranaudo and coleman.then we could pitch bradshaw in the 4th game.i like the idea but ive got some guts.i coached a little 11-15 year old team and thats how i would teach them.my baby brother played on that team and hated me but til this day he would say he appeciated what i did for that team.

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this is awesome, fwiw imho