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re: Skenes vs Braves

Posted by lsufball19 on 7/7/26 at 7:05 pm to
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It's a bit unreasonable to ask ANY pitcher to have a sub 2.00 ERA for his entire career. Ebb and flow. Wax and wane. Strikes and gutters.

It’s not just his ERA. His velocity and spin rate are down significantly and have continued to dip
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Mine-David Cutcliffe, very good coach and even better person.

Same for me. Spoke at my church years ago. Great guy.
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I mean, that's why he said that he did. He said that they wanted to be closer to family.

he also said he'd quit coaching and sell insurance if he didn't get the Ole Miss HC job :lol:

I don't believe most of what coaches say. They're all politicians and all full of shite. Let's pretend he and Saban had a falling out. You think he's going to say "yeah Coach Saban told be to look elsewhere and Ole Miss was the best job I could find." That doesn't exactly inspire people at your new job. Y'all over in Oxford really need to stop falling for the "family man" angles your head coaches keep feeding you.
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I know that she works at Ole Miss in the school of Accounting.

Yes she took an adjunct professor job after Pete Golding had been working there. She also taught at UTSA and Southern Miss. Googling isn't hard :lol:

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What are we arguing about?

I don't know, you tell us what you think you're arguing about
I just don't think he took a different job because of the difference in driving distance between Tuscaloosa and Oxford. I don't really care why he did, I just think that alleged reason is silly and unlikely
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LSU fans are even experts on Pete’s family dynamics now.

are you an expert on his family dynamics? I have no idea why he left Alabama. That's between he and Saban, but saying I doubt he left a job to reduce a 3 hour drive to a 1.75 hour drive isn't exactly a hot take. But we all know how much anything LSU triggers you, so you do you bud
His wife is from Cleveland MS. Cleveland is around 1.75 hours from Oxford and around 3 from Tuscaloosa. Neither are far drives.

Hammond, LA, where Golding is from is about equidistant from both

I doubt Pete Golding took a new job to be 1.75 hours as opposed to 3 hours away from Cleveland.
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Calvin Johnson ended up at a program running the option still

He was rated as the #5 overall receiver nationally and #1 player in GA coming out of high school. He was a 5 star on scout and a 4 star on Rivals. He didn't slip through the cracks. He had offers from a lot of big programs, including Georgia. He said he didn't enjoy his visit at UGA. He also grew up just south of Atlanta
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Fill us in

When he recovered from his illness he started back with the Rangers, didn’t do well, was optioned to AAA and then recalled.
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I’m glad the Rangers think enough of him to have moved him down while he recovered.

That’s not exactly what happened.
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Neither LSU nor Lane Kiffin have anything to do with Butch Jones and Joshua Dobbs yet somehow you brought him into it and argued about TN unfair treatment of him 16 years ago.

Actually an Alabama fan brough Kiffin into the thread by saying he was the worst coach in TN history. It’s at the bottom of page 1 of your thread
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Yes, it does. For one thing, I look at the top and see one guy over a hundred and not by much. That looks like a staff that better have great defense behind them.

If you’re wondering…that staff set the school record for team ERA in a single season at 2.40 and the record for wins in a season with 57. It was the 2013 staff. That one guy barely over 100 Ks was Aaron Nola. The defense was good not great.

So yeah you basically proved my point here. Thanks for that
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This is a classic case of someone whining about a thread because he doesn’t like it, when the real answer is to stay out of it.

Not really but ok. Maybe adding context would help an argument and without it the post is useless, like I said.
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Yes it does. You can clearly see the lack of dominant pitching in 2026, for example. Paul Skenes’ strikeouts are shocking. It’s nice to be reminded of Eyanson and Anderson mowing them down in 2025.

No it doesn't. I'm going to give you strikeout totals for a season of LSU baseball without providing names or the year or any other context. You tell me if this tells you anything of the value of that pitching staff

122
78
47
38
37
36
25
18
16
16
15
15

If you think listing how many pitchers threw 15 or more strikeouts tells a story without any additional context, these numbers should tell you that staff kinda sucked outside one pitcher right?
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No it’s not. Strikeouts are a fairly important metric.

the total number of pitchers with 15 or more strikeouts doesn't say much if anything without more context.
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It’s June and just showing some data

it's a pretty meaningless data set. Are you just leaning into the autist thing now?
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Walks were still a problem, but he finished the season with a 0.202 BA Against.


his OppBA has always been great and walks have always been an issue His OppBA here was .167

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Before his injury vs Florida (knee); In 11 starts he went 6-1 and had a 3.02 ERA and (my math may be off) 1.41 WHIP.

meh, once SEC play started, all of his career struggles came back quickly. He had a couple games where he put it together, but his struggles didn't start after a minor injury against Floirda

3/13 A&M: 2.1 IP, 1 H, 7 BB, 5 R
3/19 LSU: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 6 BB, 1 HBP, 5 R
4/10 Vandy: 0.1 IP, 0 H, 4 BB, 4 R

That Florida injury didn't happen until May. On the season, he couldn't make it past the 3rd inning in 7 of his starts.

The guy has always had elite "stuff" which is why he's hard to hit. But he has still not learned how to consistently throw strikes. It's been his problem his entire career.
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I have to imagine that the full interview was written and planned ahead of time, and the answers to the questions were already in his computer system. I'm sure the tech is light years ahead of where it was before, but those were long detailed answers and I can't imagine it's that fast if it's eye tracking. Regardless it's great that there is at least a way for patients to communicate better now


probably accurate. One of my colleagues had a case where someone who had ALS had to testify. His testimony took 5x as long as it would have otherwise because of the long delay in his computer translating the responses.
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After 2007 he leaned into the doofus/wacky persona way too much and became way too loyal to his staff.

It was really after the 2008 season when Perrilloux got kicked off the team and he was forced to play freshman Jarrett Lee who couldn’t keep from throwing pick 6s. Les was never the same after that 08 season. He played every game based solely around not taking chances the rest of his career. It worked against most teams not named Alabama because we could overpower almost everyone else. But that was ultimately his undoing.
Schwarber is basically a worse version of Giancarlo Stanton and Jim Thome. Tons of strikeouts, tons of home runs. But his career BA is significantly worse than both. Thome also at least played an actual position way more and got to 600 HRs.

It's kind of amazing that 1/3 of Schwarber's career hits are HRs

The only people not in the HOF w 500 career HRs are steroid guys, so Schwarber would be a great test subject for that should he get to that milestone
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I have no idea how we didn’t score on our first drive after that.

3 and out then a blocked FG. Basically the worst possible outcome of that situation