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If I am Dave Arranda I come in with a gameplan that centers around making Jaylen Hurts beat me with his arm. Hurts is a good QB especially when he can use his legs, but a polished passer he is not.

National Champions are not made in Starkville Mississippi, National Chumps are! :lol:

MSU and National Champions don't belong in the same sentence. :lol:

Unless you were to write it like this: In June 2013 UCLA defeated Mississippi State for the national championship! Then it would be appropriate!

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MSU fans

LSU Baseball is greater than MSU not just my opinion but national baseball guys have back it up!

The minute MSU gets their new park open, I would bet TAF and Bertman will already have a plan to out do any stadium that may stand in Starkville.



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Stole him hardley Lol ??!

You guys gave him a shot at being a head coach with higher pay than we would pay him as an assistant of course he took it.

Of course he is happy where they sign his checks! That doesn't mean he won't bolt first chance he gets!

Again MSU is MSU, and it's located in Starkville Mississippi!

You guys have a nice little baseball program over there!

But here in BR we have a program who's goals are a little higher with much more resources at our disposal.

?? Lol MSU fans are so funny! :geauxtigers:

MSU new stadium will be the nicest in college baseball no doubt.......but only for a short time.

By that time the New Box will be ten years old and ready for improvements that will no doubt make it the best facility in the country!??

MSU has a great baseball program and history but I highly doubt TAF, Skip Bertman, and influential LSU baseball people will allow MSU and Starkville Mississippi to have any leg up in facilities for long!?? I mean Starkville "is an old Indian word for trailer park" Stanley "Skip"Bertman.

If we offered Cannizaro he would come. You don't win college baseball titles in Starkville, you win them in Baton Rouge!

As for the next LSU coach Cannizaro would be a good choice but I think Tim Tadlock would be the guy I would contact.

Everyone knew this baseball team had a lot of new faces this year! Paul once again did them no favors with our non conference schedule. Cincinnati, Sac St, Fordham, Ball State. Now there is a schedule that will prep you for SEC baseball! I believe we will be a much better team in May than now,but it may not be enough to make a regional a la 2011! This team is getting ready to take its lumps two of the next three weeks @ A&M and home against Vandy. That's a schedule that could dig us a big hole!

“When you have players that have not played in these kind of environments that much, sometimes they have to make mistakes to learn and to be able to grow and we did,” Mainieri said. “You can always learn, but we’re not trying to learn. We’re trying to win. And sometimes making those mistakes can prevent you from winning.”

Maybe you needed to really test these young guys early, even try to play a series out on the dare I say road away from the "BOX" Paul! Instead of playing games that don't prep you for SEC!

Sun. Sept 20th- LSU had just played it's best game of the year against Auburn! Everyone in the media and on message boards proclaims that LSU is one of the best four teams in college football!

Fast forward two weeks!

We all witnessed a very lack luster performance against an out manned Eastern Michigan team. Everyone is now out saying this team is terrible the sky is falling and the season is over!

Now, I will agree with everyone that says this team has things that need to get better and better in a hurry.

But while things were not as good as everyone proclaimed on Sept 20th, I will argue that things this morning are not as bad as they appear!

This team has not been focused the last two weeks! Many will say that is inexcusable. I agree with anyone who would say that!

But just because it is inexcusable doesn't mean it's not understandable. This team is still very young and they all heard the last two weeks how good they were, and how bad the teams they were playing against were. So, they just rolled out on the field and expected victory, instead of playing with the same intensity they played the first two games of the season!

My point is two weeks ago we weren't as good as people said, and this morning we are not as bad as so would say! The SEC schedule will separate us as a pretender or contender. This team can be whatever it wants to be 7-4, 9-2, 10-1,11-0. It doesn't matter what Kirk Herbstriet says, Tim Brando, Andy Staples, Stewart Mandel, the AP poll, Coaches Poll, or anyone on the Tiger Rant says. The ball is in this teams court and I think we can all agree their is enough talent there, especially when #7 is on our side.
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Kendall Rogers @KendallRogersD1 · 13m 13 minutes ago
Enjoyed chatting with Paul Mainieri after the game. Tells me LHP Jake Latz will throw a bullpen Tuesday. That's great news for #LSU.

I think Les needs to look to Auburn for our offensive solutions.

Auburn loves to run the ball and yet they are very simplistic and allow their athletes to make plays!

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Thanks for clarifying a bit. Certainly could be a factor in their bloated offensive stats.

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ULL is a very good team, they took two of three from an Alabama team that leads the SEC and beat us!

However, it probably wouldn't be to much to think some of their offensive production is due to the level of competition they face on a week in week out basis especially in their conference and I think they would be a great offense in any conference but I don't think they would be putting up the crazy numbers they are now if they were in the SEC!

In regards to their bats being illegal, who knows. I do know that coaches and players all across the country are looking for any edge they can get, including at LSU!

I am more curious to see how ULL's potent offense translates in the postseason against better pitching, and if they were able to make it to TD Ameritrade Park, what if any adjustment they could make to be successful there because that is a park where home run teams will turn into nothing more than warning track power teams!

Vanderbilt is going to dominate a lot of SEC baseball teams not just LSU, so lets don't go write the season off because we lost two of three in Nashville!

The next two weeks are critical for this baseball team. Georgia is an improving club, but they are nowhere near Vanderbilt on the mound. Hopefully, the Tigers can return to the Box and get the bats going next week anything short of two out of three would be disappointing.Then, they take the road to Florida, who is a quality club, but again you need two out of three on the road.

I look for Poche to continue to improve as the year goes on. Today was not his day, but Nola had a similar rude awaking against Miss St. a few years ago at the Box and by the end of the year was the number two starter, starting big games at South Carolina, and against Stony Brook at the Box in the Super. Hopefully, Poche puts this behind him and continues to develop, I believe he will. It wouldn't surprise me if he is the Saturday starter in a few weeks, maybe as soon as the Arkansas series to start April at the Box.

The question to me is the number three starter. Bowman pitched ok after the first inning today, but he is not going to overpower or fool anybody and Glenn has not been anything near what he was last year, and he had some ups and downs then! If one of these guys doesn't step up, maybe this will be the opportunity for a Brady Domangue, you can tell Paul really likes the guys attitude and work ethic when he speaks about him, so if he can peace together a few good starts maybe he ends up being our number three guy.

To early to make any real solid judgments on this team, but we have a schedule that sets up favorable for us the next month. There are no easy wins in the SEC. We won't be playing a team as good as Vandy till the SEC tournament or later their arms are maybe the best in the nation. So, you gotta think even at worst if you can win with Nola on Friday, you can find a way to at least steal one game on Sat. or Sun. to win some series.

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