Let this sink in folks....

[thekimmer]

If we could somehow sweep these next two series we will have accomplished something that has never happened in the history of MSU baseball and that is winning more than 20 SEC reg season games in a single season. We have won 20 SEC games just once and that was 28 years ago in 1989. We came close in 97 with 19 and 18 in 2014 and 84. LSU has won 20 in conference play 8 times including once under the failure Smoke Laval.

 

[121Josey]

If we could somehow sweep these next two series we will have accomplished something that has never happened in the history of MSU baseball and that is winning more than 20 SEC reg season games in a single season.

For a minute there, I thought that you were going to say "win the SEC West." But that would require cooperation from the Milkmen.**

 

[Shmuley]

If 79 had played 30 SEC games it would have won probably 25 or more.

 

[CuzDawg]

mis read.

 

[patdog]

Counting the SEC tournament, the 79 team was 21-2 in conference play. That was a different era though. Back then the SEC was garbage in baseball.

 

[Shamoan]

i looked up the 85 thunder and lightning record and there were some interesting losses for that team. loss to new orleans, two losses to bama (went 4-2 vs bama), loss to hawaii, loss to ole miss (went 6-1 vs om), 2 losses to lsu (went 4-2 vs lsu), 3 losses to auburn (went 3-3 vs aub), loss to mississippi college, loss to arkansas, and a loss to michigan in postseason.

http://web1.ncaa.org/app_data/stats...n I_1985_430_Mississippi State University.pdf

that team has a lot similarities to this one imo.

 

[patdog]

The 85 team had 4 MLB all-stars. Probably the best group of 4 players on 1 team in SEC history. But it had little depth. The starting SS was under the Mendoza line until he got hot in the CWS and made the CWS all-star team. This team doesn't have the top-end talent that team did, but it's got more depth. Also, this team has better young talent than the 85 team did. It took us 3 years to really bounce back after that group of seniors and juniors left in 85. I think we're going to have a much better team in 17 than we did in 86.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Fire Cohen!1

...and to think, some of us said that this team would be nothing like last years, and were lambasted for it

 

[615dawg]

New Orleans went to the CWS in '84. Those weren't bad losses.

 

[ShrubDog]

We need to focus on Troy first.

 

[Junction John]

Better keep reminding everyone of that when we play the Hogs next week.**

 

[Dawgzilla]

That 5 game losing streak was caused by a curse. I've posted this before on here. While the '85 team was on the Spring Break trip to Hawaii they visited a volcano, and it is bad luck to steal any of the volcanic rocks. The team lost the last game to Hawaii, got swept at Auburn, and then lost to MC. At that point a couple of players confessed they had stolen some rocks. I don't remember which players, but I think McDonald was one of them. After they confessed, they hid the rocks in the visitors dugout and hung some Ti leaves on their own dugout, and the slump ended! It probably helped that Jackson State came to town, too.

 

[Shamoan]

17? sounds like a good year. 17-edy-17-17

 

[aTotal360]

We need to fire Cohen, then focus on Troy.

 

[Sutterkane]

I mean, is this not solid evidence that indians are behind our demise?

 

[engie]

Some reading fun(just among the threads I commented in. Wonder what ole Phil and MSU92 are up to these days?**

http://forums.sixpackspeak.com/showthread.php?141509-Here-s-my-red-flag-re-Cohen
http://forums.sixpackspeak.com/show...t-Kyle-Peterson-says-we-re-gonna-be-good-soon
http://forums.sixpackspeak.com/show...ll-coaches-under-40-sorry-John-Butch-its-time
http://forums.sixpackspeak.com/showthread.php?141457-Nothing-brings
http://forums.sixpackspeak.com/showthread.php?141461-So-I-have-always-been-a-Cohen-supporter
http://forums.sixpackspeak.com/show...-****-Canning-Butch-Thompson-after-the-season

If I were posting the asinine **** that you are, suggesting a baseball coach with 20+ years experience needs 2 years to adjust to new baseballs, I'd learn that I've finally reached rock bottom with excuses. I'm not ducking ****. Cohen won't put us in Omaha again. Nor host a super regional the remainder of his tenure. That's what elite programs are measured on right?

 

[KurtRambis4]

I think it's safe

to say that all of those in that first thread you linked (the few) that were alluding to the ball change being a major factor in last year (and to an extent, 14), were right.

 

[The Peeper]

Hey, keep it politically correct! That would be native Americans and Polynesians.....

 

[thekimmer]

According to the record book the 89 team went 20-5 in SEC play which means they had a couple of rain outs that year. I think you meant 21-7 counting the tourney because we had 2 losses in the tourney alone. Was a high water mark from a reg season wins perspective though.

 

[paindonthurt_]

Man. How often do I bet $500?

 

[BiscuitEater]

Some reading fun(just among the threads I commented in. Wonder what ole Phil and MSU92 are up to these days?**

Apparently, Phil has been in hibernation since his last post on 02-04-2016. Probably waiting for Cohen to have another season like '15.

Think MSU92 was banned .. His last post was on 05-11-2015, and DS Posted .. "Username #3 is in your future."

 

[mcdawg22]

mis read.

A CuzDawg post and all we get is this. Cmon man.