1 month ago I thought msu baseball would be able to get into the NCAA tournament. I figured like usual it was just a slow start. But what I didn't realize was that it wasn't a start. The 13-0 start was all do to lack of competition with Arizona being the only decent team. This is the worst baseball season before Polk came to Starkville and could go even beyond that. 2 years ago we were in the CWS. Now we are dead last in the SEC. Cohen has never won a series against LSU. Our last series win against Ole Miss was in 2012. Ole miss won the series when we broke the attendance record at SBW 2014. We were swept on SBW 2015. Ever since we made the finals into the CWS this program has gone downhill. UCLA embarssed us and beat us 8-0 one game in the finals. We lost our last 6 games in terrible ways. Ole Miss swept us in all 4 games. They beat us 11-1 and we had a 7-2 lead in the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs and they still beat us. Today's game didn't count but we blew a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the 9th(which seems minor to the ole miss fiasco but its sad when that is minor).
Base running coaching has been bad and pathetic. I started to notice this after the 1st LSU game when Sprull tripped heading home which would have won the series for msu ultimately against LSU. But that mad me think why would he trip going to home UNLESS a base running coach told him to come back to 3rd while he was heading home. And for the rest of the season in every game I noticed terrible base running coaching. And I mean every one of the last 8 game that I listneded,watched because I pull for msu I regard less of how bad or how good we are. With that being said base running coaching cost us on a lot of games. I noticed Mathew Britton was a base running coach once. What are we paying assistants for if we are using players as base running coaches?
As @mssstatebaseball pointed out on his blog MSU should have recruited better this season. He explains it better than I would here: http://msstatebaseball1.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-2015-season-part-1-post-cws-fail.html?m=1
For those of you true msu baseball fans I highly reccomwnd you read all of his postseason analysis because he is a true msu bulldog fan who enjoys baseball through the worst or the best of msu. And he has several really good articles explaining this season and the future.
We are supposed to have another good recruiting class but perfect game ranked our recruiting class in 2014 #2 and I don't see immediate result like LSU has. With that being said I'm not buying the whole recruiting will save us next year. Secondly msstatebaseball also reminded me that we are supposed to play in dodger stadium with UCLA and USC and host Oregon for non concfeence in 2016. If either of those games don't pan out because we pull out Cohen does not need to be our coach. As you saw this year with RPI we can't rely on hosting every non conference game to get into the NCAA(of course not winning sec series also hurts RPI too). Pulling out of Houston was just stupid and whoever thought that was a good idea needs to know how dumb that was.
This season could not have come at a worse time. The sec network watching our ever move, a new stadium that needs to happen planning on expanding, and msu having a really good athletic year overall. We are Mississippi state. Watching the thunder and lightning documentary this season showed me how great we once were. No I was not around for 1985. But if that documentary is the highlight of our season you know we are heading in the wrong direction. We should never finish last place in the sec. Even the old ad larry who we never progressed with focused on baseball. And he thinks we can't compete with everyone in any sport but stricklin proves him wrong again. We should always make the sec tournament in this format. You have to be the bottom 2 teams in the sec not to make it. Its not like a few years ago when only 2/3 of the sec made it. Its just embarssing. FSU seems to have no problem making a regional every year. In fact most years they host. We should not digress to not making a regional 2 years after the CWS. I know about UCLA last year but they will be a national seed this year something msu has never been.
We haven't won the divison. We haven't won the regular season in ages. Won one sec torunament. Won 2 regionals. Hosted once. One CWS in 7 years. Cohen has a record as equal or worse to his first two seasons. 5 years later... 10 days ago I would have said he should get another year. I wrote a fan post about a month ago saying baseball was improving which was ultimately wrong. But the way we have lost and the above statements I conclude that we need someone new. like rick ray in basketball Cohen did worse this year than his first season at msu. This team is breaking all kinds or records except they arent good ones. We cannot say recruiting is the only reason to keep a coach. The game today was icing on the cake to me that its time for a change.
I don't know many canadites for baseball. We can probably hire anyone we ant except for about 10 guys. I'm sure the UCLA coach would come because their stadium is bad. Dallas baptist looks good right now. Would the Louisville coach leave. Do we want the Virginia coach? Those are just a couple off the top of my head maybe you can come up with some since I'm not as familiar with baseball canadites as basketball or football.
I'm not a Cohen loyalist or a anti Cohen person. I am a Mississippi state fan who wants the best for Mississippi state and I believe it is best to go in a different direction. Some may oppose me and that is fine but that is why I wrote the reasons above on why I think we should move forward. I will always remember the good time like with any coach because I like Cohen. He gave his all for msu and took us to somewhere we had never been in the CWS finals. But at last we need to move on I feel for the betterment and excite of msu baseball. But it is ultimately stricklins decsicion and honestly I think it is 50-50. The question I'm sure he is asking is what we are all asking. Is one CWS appearance in 7 years good enough to keep him? My answer is no with the last place finish we had this year and the fact that our season ended 2 days before the regular season ended. But he could say yes and it would be CWS or bust in my opinion. I know that a lot of luck is involved in that but don't finish last place and win more than 1 sec series and you won't have that problem. I won't disagree with stricklins decesion either way because if he remains I feel it means that there is no one better to replace an experienced head coach like cohen. We don't need to fire a coach if we aren't prepared the stansbury fiasco says it all. So waiting another year wouldn't be the end of the world because that would allow us to find canadites if we don't find one. But we do have the entire postseason if we do choose to head in that direction so it would be best if a change is made in this off season.
I wrote this because I was wrong about the baseball team and I think there should be a change. That's all I'll say. Thoughts?
Base running coaching has been bad and pathetic. I started to notice this after the 1st LSU game when Sprull tripped heading home which would have won the series for msu ultimately against LSU. But that mad me think why would he trip going to home UNLESS a base running coach told him to come back to 3rd while he was heading home. And for the rest of the season in every game I noticed terrible base running coaching. And I mean every one of the last 8 game that I listneded,watched because I pull for msu I regard less of how bad or how good we are. With that being said base running coaching cost us on a lot of games. I noticed Mathew Britton was a base running coach once. What are we paying assistants for if we are using players as base running coaches?
As @mssstatebaseball pointed out on his blog MSU should have recruited better this season. He explains it better than I would here: http://msstatebaseball1.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-2015-season-part-1-post-cws-fail.html?m=1
For those of you true msu baseball fans I highly reccomwnd you read all of his postseason analysis because he is a true msu bulldog fan who enjoys baseball through the worst or the best of msu. And he has several really good articles explaining this season and the future.
We are supposed to have another good recruiting class but perfect game ranked our recruiting class in 2014 #2 and I don't see immediate result like LSU has. With that being said I'm not buying the whole recruiting will save us next year. Secondly msstatebaseball also reminded me that we are supposed to play in dodger stadium with UCLA and USC and host Oregon for non concfeence in 2016. If either of those games don't pan out because we pull out Cohen does not need to be our coach. As you saw this year with RPI we can't rely on hosting every non conference game to get into the NCAA(of course not winning sec series also hurts RPI too). Pulling out of Houston was just stupid and whoever thought that was a good idea needs to know how dumb that was.
This season could not have come at a worse time. The sec network watching our ever move, a new stadium that needs to happen planning on expanding, and msu having a really good athletic year overall. We are Mississippi state. Watching the thunder and lightning documentary this season showed me how great we once were. No I was not around for 1985. But if that documentary is the highlight of our season you know we are heading in the wrong direction. We should never finish last place in the sec. Even the old ad larry who we never progressed with focused on baseball. And he thinks we can't compete with everyone in any sport but stricklin proves him wrong again. We should always make the sec tournament in this format. You have to be the bottom 2 teams in the sec not to make it. Its not like a few years ago when only 2/3 of the sec made it. Its just embarssing. FSU seems to have no problem making a regional every year. In fact most years they host. We should not digress to not making a regional 2 years after the CWS. I know about UCLA last year but they will be a national seed this year something msu has never been.
We haven't won the divison. We haven't won the regular season in ages. Won one sec torunament. Won 2 regionals. Hosted once. One CWS in 7 years. Cohen has a record as equal or worse to his first two seasons. 5 years later... 10 days ago I would have said he should get another year. I wrote a fan post about a month ago saying baseball was improving which was ultimately wrong. But the way we have lost and the above statements I conclude that we need someone new. like rick ray in basketball Cohen did worse this year than his first season at msu. This team is breaking all kinds or records except they arent good ones. We cannot say recruiting is the only reason to keep a coach. The game today was icing on the cake to me that its time for a change.
I don't know many canadites for baseball. We can probably hire anyone we ant except for about 10 guys. I'm sure the UCLA coach would come because their stadium is bad. Dallas baptist looks good right now. Would the Louisville coach leave. Do we want the Virginia coach? Those are just a couple off the top of my head maybe you can come up with some since I'm not as familiar with baseball canadites as basketball or football.
I'm not a Cohen loyalist or a anti Cohen person. I am a Mississippi state fan who wants the best for Mississippi state and I believe it is best to go in a different direction. Some may oppose me and that is fine but that is why I wrote the reasons above on why I think we should move forward. I will always remember the good time like with any coach because I like Cohen. He gave his all for msu and took us to somewhere we had never been in the CWS finals. But at last we need to move on I feel for the betterment and excite of msu baseball. But it is ultimately stricklins decsicion and honestly I think it is 50-50. The question I'm sure he is asking is what we are all asking. Is one CWS appearance in 7 years good enough to keep him? My answer is no with the last place finish we had this year and the fact that our season ended 2 days before the regular season ended. But he could say yes and it would be CWS or bust in my opinion. I know that a lot of luck is involved in that but don't finish last place and win more than 1 sec series and you won't have that problem. I won't disagree with stricklins decesion either way because if he remains I feel it means that there is no one better to replace an experienced head coach like cohen. We don't need to fire a coach if we aren't prepared the stansbury fiasco says it all. So waiting another year wouldn't be the end of the world because that would allow us to find canadites if we don't find one. But we do have the entire postseason if we do choose to head in that direction so it would be best if a change is made in this off season.
I wrote this because I was wrong about the baseball team and I think there should be a change. That's all I'll say. Thoughts?
