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Hot Carl
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re: UNO 7 @ LSU 10 Final - SECN+
Posted by Hot Carl on 4/21/26 at 8:47 pm to 3rdRowTailgater
The frick was that? :lol:
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re: Will coach JJ make coaching changes after the season?
Posted by Hot Carl on 4/21/26 at 11:06 am to Choupique19
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Since 2008, LSU has earned the right to host a home regional all but 6 of those seasons (not counting Covid).
3 of the 6 have come in Jay's 5 seasons as head coach at LSU. The ceiling under Jay has been amazing, but the floor has got to improve.
Since 2001, LSU has earned the right to hoist a CWS/NC trophy 3 times in those 26 seasons. 2 of those 3 times, Jay Johnson was the one holding it.
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but the floor has got to improve.
It’d be nice, but I think we’re all gonna have to watch how this new landscape plays out and recalibrate expectations. Just like more teams will have the opportunity to win in Omaha, some of the blue bloods are probably gonna have seasons like we’re having now. We don’t get to roll out our purple LSU helmets and intimidate the everybody to at least 40 wins every year any more. Our 8 NCs don’t win us games anymore.
Now, I don’t think we should be missing the tourney or anything. But all coaches are having to navigate this new terrain in real time. They’re having to take chances and try new things. In a sport where the gap between the best teams and the worst was already the smallest. He missed this year, but I can’t imagine anybody will work as hard to figure out whatever the best formula for sustained success is gonna wind up being.
I’d go 0-45 every other year with an NC every other year, personally. This season has been frustratingly to watch, but I’m not personally offended like Jay and the players have done me some great disservice. It’s baseball. It’s life. shite happens.
Shut the frick up, tiny
Shut the frick up.
1) the camera hasn’t been on him all 4 hours of our games. You’ve seen less than 1% of his facial expressions during games
2) What would you prefer him do? Cry? Cuss? Eat? Fight? Beat the dugout up with a bat?
This season isn’t going nearly like he expected it do. He lost his job a month ago. I’m not sure enjoying being in the dugout smiling with his teammates took a while, but it definitely the better mental place he can be at n.
3) You’re just another tiny-dicked loser trying to pile on a guy who’s been piled on as much as any LSU player I can remember. What are you trying to accomplish with this thread, actually? Just show that you’re a tiny-dicked a-hole? Well, sir, you have succeeded. Congratulations. :cool:
fricking tiny-dicked, cock sucking loser.
1) the camera hasn’t been on him all 4 hours of our games. You’ve seen less than 1% of his facial expressions during games
2) What would you prefer him do? Cry? Cuss? Eat? Fight? Beat the dugout up with a bat?
This season isn’t going nearly like he expected it do. He lost his job a month ago. I’m not sure enjoying being in the dugout smiling with his teammates took a while, but it definitely the better mental place he can be at n.
3) You’re just another tiny-dicked loser trying to pile on a guy who’s been piled on as much as any LSU player I can remember. What are you trying to accomplish with this thread, actually? Just show that you’re a tiny-dicked a-hole? Well, sir, you have succeeded. Congratulations. :cool:
fricking tiny-dicked, cock sucking loser.
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This season makes no sense considering we didn't have a whole lot to replace... 3 position players and a DH. I though the combination of Evans, Schmitt, Moore, and Williams could keep our pitching at a similar level despite losing Anderson and Eyenson.
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re: Question: This is not an attack on Johnson….this is not me “bitching” as I’ve been told
Posted by Hot Carl on 4/19/26 at 2:40 pm to OvertheDwayneBowe
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Jason Kelly did nothing with the pitchers here in 2022
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Hilliard went 7-1 in 2022.
re: Texas A&M 5 @ LSU 2 Final - ESPN
Posted by Hot Carl on 4/19/26 at 1:25 pm to saturncube21
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Terrible series for Curiel so far
He beats so many balls straight into the ground. He had been getting a little more lift lately and hitting line drives and a few bombs. Not sure what happened.
re: Texas A&M 5 @ LSU 2 Final - ESPN
Posted by Hot Carl on 4/19/26 at 1:08 pm to saint tiger225
Jesus, what a terrible pitch, Cowan. You can’t miss up there, no matter what the wind is doing.
re: How do you end up with guys like Ethan Frey and Jared Jones
Posted by Hot Carl on 4/19/26 at 12:41 pm to Lester Earl
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None of the players that left are good enough to be the best player on a championship team for weeks-months-years like Frey & Jones were, at times.
Exactly. And Jay is never gonna punt on a season. Ever. I don’t think he processed most of those guys as much as they left on their own knowing Jay was going to hit the portal to try to replace the production of Jones, Frey, and Dickinson. So the guys who left probably just didn’t want to wait until their 3rd years to get on the field everyday.
Can’t really blame them. Some have pro aspirations, and most just like actually playing baseball, not just being on the team. And they already won an NC. I think we downplay how much winning an NC scratches a lifetime itch and guys then begin to focus on other dreams to accomplish. Almost all championship teams lose guys to either the draft or the portal that probably would have come back if they didn’t win the CWS.
And I think Stanny coming back was kind of a surprise that may have pushed a couple OFers out that would have probably come back otherwise.
I think Jay was caught off guard by some of those leaving. But we don’t talk about this enough either—there weren’t a ton of high-level guys in the portal last year. Probably less than any season prior since it became a thing. So he had to gamble on some guys with high ceilings and low floors. And they’ve played closer to their floors for whatever reason.
So it was a combination of a lot of things that lead to this season. But I’m confident he’ll learn and adapt.
re: So one bad portal class has changed CJJ’s entire philosophy on the portal?
Posted by Hot Carl on 4/18/26 at 9:11 pm to beauchristopher
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Maybe he would prefer more proven portal guys.
Of course, and I think he’ll be very aggressive in getting those guys this year. But he was referring to Bear Jones and Ethan Frey as the 2 guys from last year. And Crews, Dugas, Travinski, Beloso, Thompson, Jobert, Doughty, etc…from years prior. You get talented guys in their 3rd or 4th years in the program, you are in charge of developing them and you say every day what they can do.
But make no mistake, he’s not gonna quit going after the Tommy Whites, Dickinsons, Berrys, etc…I think he’s going to start investing more in freshmen that project to be power hitters in their 2nd or 3rd years in the system and build for the future. But he’s not gonna wait on them. He’ll never intentionally punt on a season. He’ll grab some proven power hitters this summer. He’s probably already tampering.
But that quote didn’t mention pitchers or other players. He’s gonna grab those every year. It wouldn’t surprise me if he comes away with the best OFer, SS, and maybe even cacher in the portal that weren’t expected to be there. And I think Doughty and Dickinson were 2 of his favorite players he’s had since he’s been here. I look for him to get a proven, gritty, 2nd baseman, too. Not sure the young guys we have now there will be able to show enough for him to feel comfortable enough for them to make the jump.
Interested to see what happens with Braun, Serna, and Bide. They’ll likely switch some of their positions around. They definitely will if there’s a stud 1B that we can get. Could move Braun back to OF.
We’ll see. But Jay’s probably gonna go super hard in the portal this year. But I believe him that he’ll also focus a little more on signing freshmen who probably won’t be staples until their 2nd or 3rd seasons.
Nice job by the 2 freshmen from Ohio and Indiana.
re: Texas A&M 7 @ LSU 2 Final
Posted by Hot Carl on 4/18/26 at 6:26 pm to TigerMonkey7
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wtf is Jay doing? Let him get some momentum
You see those splits? He had to make this move.
re: Texas A&M 7 @ LSU 2 Final
Posted by Hot Carl on 4/18/26 at 6:17 pm to saturncube21
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Ump squeezed Schmidt there at the end
What? :lol: No.
re: Texas A&M 7 @ LSU 2 Final
Posted by Hot Carl on 4/18/26 at 6:13 pm to saint tiger225
Schmidt with some bad body language. He’s about to groove one for a 3-run bomb
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They’ve actually chased a few for easy strikes in the previous two innings.
Well, I’m not exactly glued to every pitch today. :lol:
But I didn’t mean just today and I didn’t mean just A&M’s good hitters. College hitters just see too much good stuff consistently to be flailing on breaking balls 2 feet off the plate like they may have done in the past. Hell, 25 years ago, Schmidt is probably an All-American and maybe the 1st pick in the draft.
Schmidt wastes WAY too many non competitive pitches. Mainly on breaking balls. These dudes are too good to be chasing shite like that.
re: Texas A&M 7 @ LSU 2 Final
Posted by Hot Carl on 4/18/26 at 5:59 pm to TigerMonkey7
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maybe Serna
:lol:
I think Pearson makes a big jump next year after seeing SEC pitching for a full season. And he’s got to have a Tommy White offseason where he loses some weight and becomes a good defensive 3rd baseman, not just hiding over there.
But you’re right. We’re not that talented anyway, and most of our position player talent will be leaving for the draft. There will be a lot of new faces next year that come from the portal.
I think the silver lining of this season is that Jay is going to be as aggressive as he’s ever been in getting high-level—proven—talent out of the portal. He’ll be able to shake enough trees to get the cash to nab some studs. Not gambles, like ‘27 1st rounders. He’s probably already been tampering for weeks. He may the most miserable man in baseball right now.
re: This team looks like a southland team compared to aggy
Posted by Hot Carl on 4/18/26 at 5:43 pm to TigerMonkey7
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Not sure but what I do know is these guys who beat Aggy last year can’t even compete with them this year
“These guys” didn’t beat Aggy last year. And Aggie’s’ guys are way better this year than they were last.
re: Make it stop. Can’t even play competitively when season is on the line.
Posted by Hot Carl on 4/18/26 at 5:26 pm to saint tiger225
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This team lacks the intestinal fortitude to compete with their backs against the wall right now.
I don’t think it’s that as much as we’re just overmatched. We’re just not that talented this year.
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Also grooving them dead center. Any lineup is going to make you pay for those pitches.
Yeah, his location is a way bigger deal than his movement. Or lack thereof. And he throws way too many off speed pitches that are too far off the plate. Just non competitive. Dudes may have been fooled and whiffed at those 10-15 years ago coming off a 96/97 mph fastball, but guys today see that all the time and are able to be much more disciplined on pitches that far out of the zone.
And put who in, exactly? Schmidt needs to eat innings/outs so we can try not to get swept tomorrow. Much more likely we get run ruled tomorrow than win, though. These dudes rake and are probably gonna feast big time on the back of our pen tomorrow. And likely later this evening.
A&M is really good. Not excusing us. But they’re better than #11. They’ve got at least 2 dudes that got off to slow starts that are now on fire.
A&M is really good. Not excusing us. But they’re better than #11. They’ve got at least 2 dudes that got off to slow starts that are now on fire.
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