The Strategy Now....

[Bulldog from Birth]

Step 1: Throw Pilkington to give you a very good shot to move on past UIC.

Step 2: Pray the bats get hot against USA and USM's 3rd, 4th, and 5th pitchers and we can find ways to win some 12-10 type ballgames.

Slim odds certainly. But what the heck. Hail State! Regardless of the outcome, we overachieved this year with all the adversity. And I think we've got the next young superstar head coach. Much better days than a second seed are ahead.

 

[skydawg1]

Step 1: Throw Pilkington to give you a very good shot to move on past UIC.

Step 2: Pray the bats get hot against USA and USM's 3rd, 4th, and 5th pitchers and we can find ways to win some 12-10 type ballgames.

Slim odds certainly. But what the heck. Hail State! Regardless of the outcome, we overachieved this year with all the adversity. And I think we've got the next young superstar head coach. Much better days than a second seed are ahead.

Absolutely. Our objective is to not finish 4th in this regional that so many on this board were salivating at us being in. This was a tough draw for us. Great....as I type this the guy doing the Oregon State game says how surprised he was that Mississippi State lost to South AL.

 

[Nugget's Ghost]

Absolutely. Our objective is to not finish 4th.

...aim high buddy, always aim high in Life.

 

[snoopdog]

As Jim Valvano said...

Survive and advance. You win tomorrow with your best shot, then move on from there. You never know what happens in the other game that might play into our advantage.

 

[gymdawg.sixpack]

I know these are opinions si heres mine.

Id throw billingsley tomorrow and save pilk for gm3. Yes its a gamble but i believe its our only shot to still win the regional. We are still alive so my goal would still be to win the tourney. If we won with jb and say usm beats usa we have pilk to eliminate them. Now we can go back to cole or somebody im forgetting for gm 1vsusm....i could go on but the truth is its a long shot either way. And i think if we throw pilk vs uic its essentially throwing in the towel and giving up

 

[MaroonNation]

You realize we are paired with LSU, correct?

 

[tatedog]

Absolutely. Our objective is to not finish 4th in this regional that so many on this board were salivating at us being in. This was a tough draw for us. Great....as I type this the guy doing the Oregon State game says how surprised he was that Mississippi State lost to South AL.

Who exactly was salivating about this regional? With the depth problems of our pitching staff and our cold bats lately, there's not a regional you could have placed us in that I would feel good about. The consensus best case scenario was to win the first two games and hold on for dear life after that.

Perhaps you are confused with the ease that many (and by many I mean probably 90% or more) of us think LSU will steamroll this regional pairing.

 

[tatedog]

Survive and advance. You win tomorrow with your best shot, then move on from there. You never know what happens in the other game that might play into our advantage.

Here's something that I know won't play into our advantage: A batter must incur three strikes before taking four balls to be retired.

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

I know these are opinions si heres mine.

Id throw billingsley tomorrow and save pilk for gm3. Yes its a gamble but i believe its our only shot to still win the regional. We are still alive so my goal would still be to win the tourney. If we won with jb and say usm beats usa we have pilk to eliminate them. Now we can go back to cole or somebody im forgetting for gm 1vsusm....i could go on but the truth is its a long shot either way. And i think if we throw pilk vs uic its essentially throwing in the towel and giving up

From this point forward if we are by some miracle to win the regional our bullpen is going to be more important than starters. I know it sounds dumb but hear me out. We have to win 4 games but we only have one pitcher (Pilk) who has proven that he can throw more than 4 innings. We used 4 arms out of the pen last night plus Gordon only threw 2 innings. We have to let KP pitch tonight and hope he can go 7+ to give some guys the night off. They will need the rest if we are going to pull this off.

That being said we probably pitch him today he goes 3 innings and we get blown the 17 out.

 

[Philly Dawg]

I wouldn't worry about finishing fourth and save Pilkington again. If we win, we still need to win two.

 

[patdog]

Absolutely. Our objective is to not finish 4th in this regional that so many on this board were salivating at us being in.

I said this would be a tough regional. But our objective should still be to win it. Don't really give a **** if we finish 2nd, 3rd or 4th.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

The strategy now is to figure out who UIC will pitch on Sunday.

 

[jdbulldog]

Throw Denver vs UIC and hope we can win...then use our ace to eliminate either USM or USA. After that, win two with whatever is left. If we lose to UIC and Pilk doesn't pitch I m good with it. Our best chance to win the regional is to save him now for game 3. I could care less about finishing 4th, 3rd, or 2nd.

 

[notoriousD_O_G]

Throw Denver vs UIC and hope we can win...then use our ace to eliminate either USM or USA. After that, win two with whatever is left. If we lose to UIC and Pilk doesn't pitch I m good with it. Our best chance to win the regional is to save him now for game 3. I could care less about finishing 4th, 3rd, or 2nd.

We will have to win 3 more if we win today not 2. Losers bracket game then the team that is 2-0. Win that and we play again monday. Anyone you pitch today you are probably not going to be able to use for either game sunday. Have to use Pilk today and save the pen for tomorrow. Then Monday throw whatever we have left at them.