Baseball this year is a only a segue into ..

[DAWGS1.sixpack]

the summer Media Days and the opening of Fall practice in August. Accept it and the Spring golf season will be more enjoyable.
We will be lucky to W 8 SEC games. Sucks to have this happen in first year of new stadium and the fact that we are still not in the Top 2-3 consistently in the entire SEC. Where are we actually ? -- 6th ? Maybe
Hope the IB makes a great hire, not just a splashy, win the press conference hire.

 

[She Mate Me]

the summer Media Days and the opening of Fall practice in August. Accept it and the Spring golf season will be more enjoyable.
We will be lucky to W 8 SEC games. Sucks to have this happen in first year of new stadium and the fact that we are still not in the Top 2-3 consistently in the entire SEC. Where are we actually ? -- 6th ? Maybe
Hope the IB makes a great hire, not just a splashy, win the press conference hire.

What's even more depressing is two of our assistants are tearing it up at "lesser" baseball schools.

 

[bulldogcountry1]

You can't expect much when you have effectively been without a head coach since last summer. Not a single returning player has shown any noticeable improvement since last season, and that is what is killing us. It's going to be a chore trying to score runs against SEC pitching. We hit .284 as a team last season, and we are enter SEC play hitting .268. That's ugly. We will be well under .250 at season's end.

 

[maroonmania]

You can't expect much when you have effectively been without a head coach since last summer. Not a single returning player has shown any noticeable improvement since last season, and that is what is killing us. It's going to be a chore trying to score runs against SEC pitching. We hit .284 as a team last season, and we are enter SEC play hitting .268. That's ugly. We will be well under .250 at season's end.

Seems like we were paying our baseball HC a pretty nice salary to apparently just spend all of his time getting buff and carry on an all consuming extramarital affair.

 

[Shmuley]

In my opinion, this is Mal Cohen's one chance to not take no for an answer. He has no other option than to make the Saban hire.

 

[coach66]

Yep, he needs to go all in on this one. Very important he get this right.

nm

 

[Xenomorph]

I just consulted Tupolev.. he says it's time to go to 105% on the reactor.

 

[aTotal360]

I hope so. Unfortunately I think he starts with Ming or Butch and it doesn't go past that. One of them will say 'yes'.

For the record, I'm not calling either of them a bad coach. I'd just like to see us go after some of the megaharks out there.

 

[8dog]

We are not very good but i dont understand not playing mac and vansau every day. Still allows you to play allen, hatcher and jordan/foscue

 

[philduckworth]

We are not very good but i dont understand not playing mac and vansau every day. Still allows you to play allen, hatcher and jordan/foscue

I agree but it takes either Foscue or Rowdey out of the lineup. That's why I think we need to move Stovall to Catcher.

 

[philduckworth]

My lineup would be:

1. Mangum, CF
2. Stovall, C
3. Allen, DH
4. Vansau, RF
5. Hatcher, 1B
6. MacNamee/Jordan Anderson, LF
7. Alexander, SS
8. Foscue, 3B
9. Jordan, 2B

At least this would allow us to develop 4 or 5 of the freshman. I see Hayden Jones or Hancock being our catcher next season.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

You can't expect much when you have effectively been without a head coach since last summer. Not a single returning player has shown any noticeable improvement since last season, and that is what is killing us. It's going to be a chore trying to score runs against SEC pitching. We hit .284 as a team last season, and we are enter SEC play hitting .268. That's ugly. We will be well under .250 at season's end.

I think you hit the nail on the head. The coaching problem looks to affect us more than just that opening weekend fiasco and our hitting is just terrible. I'm beginning to wonder if we all were mistaken about our previous coach's ability to improve players. Getting good players is one thing. Getting them and continuing their development is another.

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

McNamee is hitting .226. He will play every day if he starts hitting the damned ball.

 

[MSUDawgFan86]

We are not very good but i dont understand not playing mac and vansau every day. Still allows you to play allen, hatcher and jordan/foscue

Maybe bc Mac isn’t very good? There is nothing in his history that makes me think it’ll change playing every day.

 

[philduckworth]

Maybe bc Mac isn’t very good? There is nothing in his history that makes me think it’ll change playing every day.

He hit .292 in conference play last year.

 

[BossDawg78]

In my opinion, this is Mal Cohen's one chance to not take no for an answer. He has no other option than to make the Saban hire.

I'm so damn frustrated with the past few years of State baseball, that I can't help but be snarky and pessimistic. Cohen will more than likely make a home run hire, but bet the farm that some dumb, random **** will happen that derails everything again. The new coach will get a vision one night that he needs to go into the ministry, or he'll get caught snorting coke off a drunk co-ed....something just completely out of right field.

 

[8dog]

Exactly. Guy has shown he can hit high level pitching in a respectable fashion

 

[8dog]

But he hit well last year. We gave him 25 abs and quit in him this year. That makes no sense for a guy that played like he did last year

 

[messageboardsuperhero]

I'm so damn frustrated with the past few years of State baseball, that I can't help but be snarky and pessimistic.

The last few years? We’re coming off back to back super regional appearances. In 2016 we won the SEC outright and were a National seed. We have been in the process of building the best facility in the history of the sport.

It’s been a rough month or so, but to act like the past few years of State baseball has been frustrating to follow is completely melodramatic.

 

[patdog]

Yeah. Most of about 1992 - 2010 was a cesspool of despair other than 97-02 and 07. But from 2011-2017, we really had gotten MSU baseball back on track. This year should be just a very strange aberration.

 

[Todd4State]

You can't expect much when you have effectively been without a head coach since last summer. Not a single returning player has shown any noticeable improvement since last season, and that is what is killing us. It's going to be a chore trying to score runs against SEC pitching. We hit .284 as a team last season, and we are enter SEC play hitting .268. That's ugly. We will be well under .250 at season's end.

You're exactly right. We need stability in the worst way and I think with an elite or even good coach we could make a huge jump from this year to next year.

 

[5049]

We are not very good but i dont understand not playing mac and vansau every day. Still allows you to play allen, hatcher and jordan/foscue

To maximize, 2018, yes, those two guys need to step up. The problem is, they haven't. They've been clowns, while Rowdy Jordan has been dropping bombs, and Foscue has proven to be the best 3B-man we've had in a decade

You can't sit those two guys down to play clowns. Play one at a time in RF until someone steps up, or Jordan cools off