Wow.. so we got the prime time game Sat night..
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Maybe I am in the minorty here, but can we quit talking about and referring to UM? They lost, we made fun of them......... But they are done, we are playing, they are not......... I dont really give a crap what they think right now. To me, its how its supposed to be. We are playing and they are not in Omaha.
Absolutely not
They were equipped to win the national title, talked about it constantly, and then this happened....I still can't believe the size of the bullet we dodged, and it will make watching us on Saturday night, in front of the ESPN world, taking every bit of the spotlight, that much more awesome
Did I answer your question satisfactorily??
I, for one, predicted Ole Miss to make it to Omaha. Tennessee Tech was their biggest threat and they had them at home and in line to face at worst one of the worst 1-seeds. I’ve seen a few Ole Miss fans say that they had a tough regional but eh... it wasn’t extraordinarily tough. I’d call the Stanford Regional the toughest of the bunch— great 4-seed and Fullerton as a 3-seed.
I don't care what they are doing or did last week (which we fairly talked about and made fun of at the right time), and I dont need to constantly talk about them or their failures to enjoy my team's success.
Their regional wasn't tough at all. It was tailor-made for them to waltz all the way to Omaha. The Tennessee Tech awe is just revisionist history - because Ole Miss lost to them.
The real answer is that baseball is the ultimate parity sport. Anyone can beat anyone in a one-game elimination matchup. It's why they play seven game series at the pro level - because it's the only true indicator of who the best team is.
Once you get to Omaha, you really only need 2 pitchers, they could have used Rolison and Feigl, with Caracci on the back-end, and wow, I shudder to think what they could have done
Funny though, their team ERA wasn't great at the end
we have bigger fish to fry. imo, if we constantly refer to their program, it only strengthens them. we need to worry about us from a larger perspective. its difficult because how ingrained we are to each other simply because of our situation, acquaintances, similarities, but their season is over, we are still playing for our first national championship and making our program better.
Yep, Texas proved that
But you at least get another shot at it, and Ole Miss had no business losing to Tennessee Tech twice
You have to step up to the plate, baseball weeds out the mentally weak, I think the best coaches are the ones who find a way to get the players to play like they have nothing to lose
Drebin is right. Their regional was a classic LSU regional from when they were going to the CWS every year. Easy peasy. Tennessee Tech scored a total of 9 runs in 3 games against maybe the weakest #1 seed in the tournament and is only 15-9 against teams in the top 100 RPI. #3 seed Missouri State is only 14-13 vs top 100 teams. Regionals just don't get any easier than that one was.
Not really. While watching us on Saturday night the last thing that will be on my mind is Ole Miss.
Mississippi is in no way, shape, or form on the same level as our baseball program. They don’t belong in the same sentence as us. I care to talk about teams that on our level like Arkansas, UF, USCe, Vandy, or LSU. Same goes for basketball. They’ll never be on our level or catch up in the all-time series or trophy cases.
Do you still believe in Santa?
I mean, holy cow! Just get the players to play like they have nothing to lose? You've cracked the code....you should probably write a book.
In the real world, it's a helluva lot more complicated than that. The mentally weak are already weeded out -- otherwise they wouldn't be on a college roster and playing in the baseball postseason.
Actually, you're showing your lack of experience, particularly baseball experience, but I originally resisted posting that since we have rules about such things.
Coaching is not complicated, they all know what they have to do, there's no secret blueprint, with recruiting and running the program once they get there
Recruiting, anybody can find players, the hard part is the execution - convincing them to sign
Coaching wise, anybody can come up with a system, the hard part is getting the players to respect you, buy in, and consistently be their best when things don't go your way
Being mentally tough isn't easy, and most college kids simply aren't there yet
Coaches certainly don't need a book, ha, there are plenty already written, again, the hard part is what you don't find in that book, you know, the stuff you obviously know nothing about
There is a whole bunch of **** in this post. Just horrific ****.
1. Coaching is very complicated. If it wasn't, there'd be a hellava lot more of them. Coaches have to evolve constantly. The things Mullen did here won't work at Florida, for example. That doesn't happen only when coaches change schools. It happens when coaches get new recruits with different skill sets. Coaches must constantly evolve and reinvent themselves.
2. Newsflash: the hard part about recruiting is convincing them to sign. Way to go, professor.
3. Systems evolve. Players look for coaches who know what they're doing and have a track record. If they don't respect you and buy in, a good coach with a successful track record will replace them with someone who does.
4. No, being mentally tough isn't easy. But most college baseball players have been playing ball since they were 7 at the highest competitive levels. You don't make it to age 13 at AAA or Major travel levels if you aren't mentally tough. If you are playing college baseball for a team that is playing in the post season, you already have this. Skill and ability become the determinant factor. You could be the most mentally tough, most bought-in, and most determined 17er on the planet, but that doesn't mean you're going to be successful. Baseball is a game of failure. The fact that you don't agree with this proves your lack of knowledge and experience on the subject. I'd tell you to stick to something you know, but I don't know what that would be since you're getting mashed in several different threads.
I had thought for a while that you are the next incarnation of goat. Now you have confirmed it in this thread.
There are a lot of coaches, only a fraction make decent money because there are only a few crazy programs willing to pay the big money, and a lot of getting there is luck, like any profession
Recruiting takes up 80% of a college coach's time, so if you're going to put a bunch of thought/strategy into anything, it's recruiting. Again, not complicated, just very difficult
This is true for like 10% of coaches, that are at the top dog school in whatever competitive division they are in, because they have replacements, and the reason coaches have to evolve every year is because coaching is not complicated, every advantage you find goes away because everybody else does the same things, but the best leaders of men survive
LOL okay bud, just because I get out-numbered by group-think folks don't mean I'm getting mashed, I mean you just said 13 year old travel ballers are mentally tough
Go back to work dude
I don't remember Toag being such a huge OM homer, but maybe I missed it.
yeesh
yeesh
You really couldn’t write a better script with the Ole Miss thing. It’s like a storyline out of a movie. I was also thinking about how we had to use our wins again them to build our resume to get into post-season. Nice of them to do that for us. I do feel bad for their players at the end of the day. Dang though. At the end of the day, they can’t even hang their hat on beating their in state rival.
Toag was the biggest OM homer. He loved him some Bo Wallace and Hugh Freezus.
You watch way too much Ole Miss baseball. You must live within close proximity to some Bears or have Bear friends or you're like goat in that you're the unicorn fan. Fan of both Mississippi teams. I don't mind unicorn fans I just wish they'd admit they are fans of both schools.
Yeah, that's what I was just thinking. A new version of goat with longer poasts.
All my life, and I dislike them as much as anyone. But I do not need to talk about them to or refer to them to make me feel better about MSU, whether we have success or failure. This thread started about Mississippi State University receiving the prime-time slot in a game, which this team deserves. The fact they are sitting at home has not a dang thing to do with that. There is a time and place to make fun of them, discuss their antics, and ridicule them, but we do not have to do it in every thread to make ourselves feel "bigger." They shouldn't be our competition and measuring stick when determining success and received accolades. When we get what we earned/deserved, they should be the absolute last thing we think, talk and worry about. To hell with them. Yea, we got to Omaha and they didn't, just like it is supposed to be.
+ a million. The thing that drives them the most crazy is when we ignore the **** out of them. So let's do that.
Well up here in the Tupelo orbit we have had the local media bombard us with how good the Rebel baseball team is since before opening day. Rebel fans have been doing the same. Now that they are done and we are not I enjoy talking about those two facts as much as possible.
Last 12 years:
MSU - 1 championship series, 3 CWS, 6 super regionals
UM - 0 championship series, 1 CWS, 3 super regionals
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