Elite against Average, Average against Elite.

[ReverseCowbell]

This team is going to walk through a regional and lose two close-ish games in a super.

Both games in the super we will be trailing early, hang around a while in the middle, then bullpen walk it away at the end.

This is the way.

 

[champdawg.sixpack]

Are you an Oracle?!

 

[thatsbaseball]

Lots of "Redshirts" showing up around here these days .

 

[TTKADawg]

This team is going to walk through a regional and lose two close-ish games in a super.

Both games in the super we will be trailing early, hang around a while in the middle, then bullpen walk it away at the end.

This is the way.

Gonna Un-respectively disagree there neophyte

 

[ReverseCowbell]

Gonna Un-respectively disagree there neophyte

Lots of "Redshirts" showing up around here these days .

Oh I’ve been here a long time. Not sure I said anything too controversial anyway. This team has dominated the bad-to-very good teams this year, but hasn’t been near the level of those “elite” 6-8 teams.

It reminds me of the year (2013 maybe?) when Mullen went 7-5 with all five losses against top 15 teams. It’s just a tough neighborhood with no room for the “pretty good”.

 

[ReverseCowbell]

Are you an Oracle?!

There is no cowbell.

 

[Anon1684630174]

We have a lot of seniors, which translates to not being drafted as juniors, which translates to struggling against the elite teams who have a lot of future pros. I’m speaking of the position players; we have several young pitchers that will be drafted high when their time comes.

 

[sigma_dawg]

Be careful posting facts and saying anything critical around these parts.

 

[onewoof]

This team is going to walk through a regional and lose two close-ish games in a super.

Both games in the super we will be trailing early, hang around a while in the middle, then bullpen walk it away at the end.

This is the way.

Emptied my 401K based on this insider intel and bet it all in Vegas this morning.

 

[HRMSU]

I've always hated losing more than I enjoy winning. It's a curse. It's made me a bad sport at times, a bad teammate at times, even a bad dad at times, etc. It's a twisted feeling of if you win well you met expectations but if you lose especially to someone who you should absolutely beat it's 1000 times worse. You can imagine how this translates over the years for me cheering for our beloved State. Enough of my personal flaws.

While I acknowledge that we've struggled with the elite competition I am ecstatic that we win a high majority of the games we are supposed to win. So yes, I hate losing to the elite teams but I believe Oak will get us there because not getting upset and consistently beating equal to lower teams requires mental preparation every game; an apex mentality that he has already been instilled in the program. Now, let's get hot this year and be that 17'n team and next year we just need some more killers to support a pitching staff that will be elite.

 

[thekimmer]

This team is going to walk through a regional and lose two close-ish games in a super.

Both games in the super we will be trailing early, hang around a while in the middle, then bullpen walk it away at the end.

This is the way.

That is a safe bet. We are a team with more than our share of talent and that reliably delivers for us against overmatched opponents. Our problem is against equal talent we struggle to do the little things it takes to gain an edge. We do things like get picked off, can't hold runners, give up untimely freebies, passed balls that move runners up, get that hit with RISP. Fairly or unfairly, I blame that on the lingering influence from the previous coaching staff right now. Hopefully we can purge that next season.

 

[maroonmania]

Its amazing how bad we are in close games against really good competition. Here is how bad it is, in games decided by 2 runs or less against teams that finished in the top half of the SEC (essentially 1 thru 7 given we finished 8th) PLUS UCLA and USM (our 2 really good OOC opponents) we are 0-10. Against EVERYONE else we are 9-1 with the one loss being to Tennessee. We have won some games against elite competition but when we do they are never close. For example, we run ruled USM and would have run ruled A&M if Teel hadn't been put in CF. But if the game is competitive we haven't been able to win one all year.

 

[ReverseCowbell]

Its amazing how bad we are in close games against really good competition. Here is how bad it is, in games decided by 2 runs or less against teams that finished in the top half of the SEC (essentially 1 thru 7 given we finished 8th) PLUS UCLA and USM (our 2 really good OOC opponents) we are 0-10. Against EVERYONE else we are 9-1 with the one loss being to Tennessee. We have won some games against elite competition but when we do they are never close. For example, we run ruled USM and would have run ruled A&M if Teel hadn't been put in CF. But if the game is competitive we haven't been able to win one all year.

Exactly. This years team is one cojone short of being elite.

 

[patdog]

Its amazing how bad we are in close games against really good competition. Here is how bad it is, in games decided by 2 runs or less against teams that finished in the top half of the SEC (essentially 1 thru 7 given we finished 8th) PLUS UCLA and USM (our 2 really good OOC opponents) we are 0-10. Against EVERYONE else we are 9-1 with the one loss being to Tennessee. We have won some games against elite competition but when we do they are never close. For example, we run ruled USM and would have run ruled A&M if Teel hadn't been put in CF. But if the game is competitive we haven't been able to win one all year.

That’s a crazy stat. And one that does give me some hope. you have to think it will eventually turn around some.

 

[DoggieDaddy13]

Lots of "Redshirts" showing up around here these days .

Gotta start somewhere.