It's "normal" for great programs to have bad years

[QuaoarsKing]

even 2-3 years after deep CWS runs:

• 2013 Champion UCLA missed the Tournament in 2014
• 2012 Champion Arizona missed the Tournament in 2013 and 2014, and probably 2015 as well.
• 2010/2011 Champion and 2012 runner up South Carolina probably isn't making it this year.
• 2009 Champion LSU missed the Tournament in 2011.
• 2009 runner up Texas missed the Tournament in 2012 and 2013, and presumably will this year too.
• 2008 Champion Fresno State missed the Tournament in 2010, 2013, and 2014, and only made it in 2009 and 2012 with surprising conference tournament runs. They probably aren't getting in this year.
• 2008 runner up Georgia has missed the Tournament multiple times since then.
• 2006/2007 Champion Oregon State missed the Tournament in 2008.

Don't get me wrong -- it sucks to suck, and I sure wish we didn't. But let's not act like we're "too good" of a program to miss the Tournament. As long as we don't make it a habit, we're doing the same thing as all of the above teams (most of which are better programs than us) have also recently done.

Also worth noting that none of the above teams fired their coaches after missing the Tournament, except Georgia who fired Perno after missing a Regional for the third time after 2008 (and the sixth time overall).

 

[tatedog]

Just barely missing the tournament

and what we are putting on the field are apples and oranges. For example, that 2011 LSU team you mention took 2/3 in Starkville from our super regional team and had a higher RPI than we did. The reason we went to Atlanta and they stayed home was we qualified for the SEC tournament and they did not. If I remember correctly, we had to beat LSU and then have Auburn lose to UT or something like that. It was a fine line. We aren't in any sane discussion of postseason play and really haven't been since we started out 13-0 against some of the worst competition to ever grace Dudy Noble Field.