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re: The entire season rests on Wiggins

Posted by Slotback on 8/21/26 at 8:29 pm to
I think LSU gets Ole Miss the week before we meet.
Well I quickly was shown to be wrong on that one. But keep in mind that Kelly's contract expires June 30, so not renewing it/firing him are in effect, the same thing.

Let's see if Earley makes the right hire.
Frustrating end to the season, but not unexpected. And I do not foresee any staff changes in the off-season. We'll need some serious success in the portal.
Sims is out for the season. We can not catch a pitching break. But my goodness, the bats have woken back up. I think Darden gets the start tonight. Johnny Fullstaff after that.
Texas State is a team you do not take lightly. We all know that USC is probably going to have their hands full tonight.

I'm already getting nervous for Lamar.
Given our pitching situation, it's hard to argue that. It's also why I'm willing to roll the dice and go with someone like Powell or Bond as the game 1 starter vs. the 4 seed. An unorthodox approach might well be needed this weekend to give us a chance to advance.
We will host the regional. Draw is tomorrow at 11.
We've given the committee all it needs to drop us to 11/12 as far as I'm concerned.
Florida winning 2 and what has happened in other conference tournaments might be making tonight's game a top 8 qualifier....
Playing Auburn tonight at Hoover. I haven't heard anything about who is the starting pitcher tonight, or if Partida is starting.
Right now it's long streaks of bad pitching interspersed with a couple of good pitches.
Tonight in Oxford, Ethan Darden will be the starting pitcher with Sdao going to the bullpen. General feeling is that this is not a bad idea. Remainder of weekend rotation is likely Sims on Saturday and Moss on Sunday.
Tomorrow night vs. PV we need to run out all the little used arms. Get them some innings.
First series loss since March. Auburn is a very good side. But we are still in good shape. I agree that the overall lack of arms will be our undoing in the end. Still it's been a very good season so far.

No idea what to do about Sdao. Best idea so far I've heard suggested was start Darden and move Sdao to the pen. Conceptually, I like it.
DH tomorrow at Olsen. Game 1 at 1:00. Game 2 is 45 minutes after Game 1.

Raining in B/CS today. Doesn't look like they will play tonight.
On the other hand, look at what this season's pitching staff truly is. Zero "elite" arms. We have a bunch of functional arms, including one coming off of Tommy John surgery. It's a staff that does not walk many, and that has been important during the course of the season. And I think overall the staff has improved as the season has progressed. There isn't a Cortez or Aschenbacher to come out of the pen to close the door. It's been a managed combo of Johnny Fullstaff to make it work. We just need to make sure we aren't fighting our way out of the losers bracket during the regional.

Earley is managing this probably as well as it can be done.
Partida and Wilson are battling for Freshman of the Year.
Not only did we take game 2 we hit 5 home runs. 2 of them spotted by NASA.
But we have steadily improved overall in the last 6 weeks, so we have that going for us.
OK, open up tonight vs the old nemesis LSU at 6:00.

BTHO LSU!