Tell us what you want to see from this baseball team...

[Coursesuper]

I know that I want to see a team that makes the routine plays look routine and makes the hard plays look easy. I'm tired of holding my breath every time the the ball leave the bat.

[Dawgology]

A national Championship. This is THE sport a large contingent of the MSU fanbase wants to sink money into to the detriment of the football program. If that’s the case. If that’s where the fanbase wants to hang their hat then the baseball program has to be the best almost every year. Being decent or just competent in a sport less popular than women’s college basketball is equivalent to and as marketable as going 5-8 in college football.

[Lord McBuckethead]

I want today to be the beginning of a 15 year run of trips to Omaha. I should start looking for a condo in Omaha to buy.

[Activated Alpha]

I want today to be the beginning of a 15 year run of trips to Omaha. I should start looking for a condo in Omaha to buy.

15 years? Let's make it 250.

Sigh, I once again do not understand why I can't post gifs. Either way it was a Remember the Titans gif. Would have been a good one

https://tenor.com/view/rememeber-the-titans-leave-no-doubt-run-it-up-gif-15050615

[Coach34]

A good baseball team that plays hard and plays the game the right way.

[Todd4State]

A National Championship in year one. Set the tone early.

But at a minimum 40+ wins including the postseason and a team that plays up to MSU's standard.

[BrunswickDawg]

I wanna see Omaha - everything else is gravy.

[parabrave]

A national Championship. This is THE sport a large contingent of the MSU fanbase wants to sink money into to the detriment of the football program. If that’s the case. If that’s where the fanbase wants to hang their hat then the baseball program has to be the best almost every year. Being decent or just competent in a sport less popular than women’s college basketball is equivalent to and as marketable as going 5-8 in college football.

This

[Coach34]

Nobody is sending money to baseball that should be going to football. It’s baseball guys donating to baseball.

Too many around here seem to think being top notch in baseball is hurting football. That’s not the case. It’s just cheaper to win in basketball and baseball- which makes it easier for us to compete there.

[BrunswickDawg]

A national Championship. This is THE sport a large contingent of the MSU fanbase wants to sink money into to the detriment of the football program. If that’s the case. If that’s where the fanbase wants to hang their hat then the baseball program has to be the best almost every year. Being decent or just competent in a sport less popular than women’s college basketball is equivalent to and as marketable as going 5-8 in college football.

This BS is so tiresome. I just watched the season opening hype video with Mitch Moreland and it really showed me why people like you crap on baseball so much....

Mississippi State Baseball has EVERYTHING that Football wishes it had. Tradition. Championships. MLB All-Stars and high profile player throughout our history. A place amongst the top teams in the sport. Alumni and Donors who step up and give, and then give again, so we have top facilities, coaches, and players. Fans who show up no matter what - weather, hunting, or whatever obstacles be damned. And we show up and takeover games in other towns like Mobile, Memphis, Houston and OMAHA. We get national recognition and the respect of our peers and media. And most importantly, our fans and university hold it to a standard that we are willing to back up. And we've done it for decades.

I love MSU sports. All of them. But, all I've ever heard from football diehards is excuses, finger-pointing, and blame. It's the AD. It's the coach. The donors control too much/not enough. Dove season opens this weekend. Bow season opens this weekend. We are a poor state. Ole Miss influences too much. We don't have alumni. We don't have the facilities. Starkville sucks. LSU and Bama take all the players. We dont cheat. We are cheap. and on. and on. and on.

Meanwhile, baseball just keeps on winning. And if we aren't winning, we do what it takes to win.

[Dawgology]

This BS is so tiresome. I just watched the season opening hype video with Mitch Moreland and it really showed me why people like you crap on baseball so much....

Mississippi State Baseball has EVERYTHING that Football wishes it had. Tradition. Championships. MLB All-Stars and high profile player throughout our history. A place amongst the top teams in the sport. Alumni and Donors who step up and give, and then give again, so we have top facilities, coaches, and players. Fans who show up no matter what - weather, hunting, or whatever obstacles be damned. And we show up and takeover games in other towns like Mobile, Memphis, Houston and OMAHA. We get national recognition and the respect of our peers and media. And most importantly, our fans and university hold it to a standard that we are willing to back up. And we've done it for decades.

I love MSU sports. All of them. But, all I've ever heard from football diehards is excuses, finger-pointing, and blame. It's the AD. It's the coach. The donors control too much/not enough. Dove season opens this weekend. Bow season opens this weekend. We are a poor state. Ole Miss influences too much. We don't have alumni. We don't have the facilities. Starkville sucks. LSU and Bama take all the players. We dont cheat. We are cheap. and on. and on. and on.

Meanwhile, baseball just keeps on winning. And if we aren't winning, we do what it takes to win.

This is a dumb take but, hey, State’s baseball facility will be untouchable in conference USA!

[Dawgology]

Nobody is sending money to baseball that should be going to football. It’s baseball guys donating to baseball.

Too many around here seem to think being top notch in baseball is hurting football. That’s not the case. It’s just cheaper to win in basketball and baseball- which makes it easier for us to compete there.

Being good in a sport doesn’t hurt any other sport. The emphasis and money going into baseball I stead of football absolutely does hurt the football program and the athletic program (and university) as a whole. I don’t expect most of the baseball diehards to understand or accept this but it WILL be the downfall of MSU athletic program eventually. The fact the fanbase can’t pull in one direction and fully support THE program that will have the biggest impact on the future of MSU is the problem and there is no solution at this point. Just enjoy the view at The Dude while the ship sinks lol

[Coursesuper]

Being good in a sport doesn’t hurt any other sport. The emphasis and money going into baseball I stead of football absolutely does hurt the football program and the athletic program (and university) as a whole. I don’t expect most of the baseball diehards to understand or accept this but it WILL be the downfall of MSU athletic program eventually. The fact the fanbase can’t pull in one direction and fully support THE program that will have the biggest impact on the future of MSU is the problem and there is no solution at this point. Just enjoy the view at The Dude while the ship sinks lol

Man are you off base here. Your point might have had some validity 10 or even 4 years ago but it’s a new day now and you need to keep up. You have no idea how these sports are funded and I can tell you that your ideas are way off track. As a matter of fact one of the principles behind the funding of baseball just kicked in millions to the football program. The real fact is that our baseball program is now being funded by a lot of guys who’s only tie to MSU is the baseball, that’s how they got here.

[Todd4State]

This BS is so tiresome. I just watched the season opening hype video with Mitch Moreland and it really showed me why people like you crap on baseball so much....

Mississippi State Baseball has EVERYTHING that Football wishes it had. Tradition. Championships. MLB All-Stars and high profile player throughout our history. A place amongst the top teams in the sport. Alumni and Donors who step up and give, and then give again, so we have top facilities, coaches, and players. Fans who show up no matter what - weather, hunting, or whatever obstacles be damned. And we show up and takeover games in other towns like Mobile, Memphis, Houston and OMAHA. We get national recognition and the respect of our peers and media. And most importantly, our fans and university hold it to a standard that we are willing to back up. And we've done it for decades.

I love MSU sports. All of them. But, all I've ever heard from football diehards is excuses, finger-pointing, and blame. It's the AD. It's the coach. The donors control too much/not enough. Dove season opens this weekend. Bow season opens this weekend. We are a poor state. Ole Miss influences too much. We don't have alumni. We don't have the facilities. Starkville sucks. LSU and Bama take all the players. We dont cheat. We are cheap. and on. and on. and on.

Meanwhile, baseball just keeps on winning. And if we aren't winning, we do what it takes to win.

I'm sitting here watching Hofstra take BP at Dudy Noble Field and the people around me are wondering why I just randomly stood up and have them a standing ovation.

Then I showed them your post and they also gave you a standing ovation.

[Coach34]

This is a dumb take but, hey, State’s baseball facility will be untouchable in conference USA!

We are not going to get left out if anything. Such a bad take. We are an original member of the SEC. Just because we will likely become the modern Vanderbilt in football just means other teams will get their W in the Fall while we gets ours in the Spring

[Ranchdawg]

Get back to me when this administration wants to get real with football. Hiring of coaches, buying of subpar sec athletes, the hiring of assistant coaches that have never coached their position before arriving at MSU, winning one sec game in two seasons. I could go on and on! We may very well end up in conference USA but it won?t be because baseball.

[preachermatt83]

This BS is so tiresome. I just watched the season opening hype video with Mitch Moreland and it really showed me why people like you crap on baseball so much....

Mississippi State Baseball has EVERYTHING that Football wishes it had. Tradition. Championships. MLB All-Stars and high profile player throughout our history. A place amongst the top teams in the sport. Alumni and Donors who step up and give, and then give again, so we have top facilities, coaches, and players. Fans who show up no matter what - weather, hunting, or whatever obstacles be damned. And we show up and takeover games in other towns like Mobile, Memphis, Houston and OMAHA. We get national recognition and the respect of our peers and media. And most importantly, our fans and university hold it to a standard that we are willing to back up. And we've done it for decades.

I love MSU sports. All of them. But, all I've ever heard from football diehards is excuses, finger-pointing, and blame. It's the AD. It's the coach. The donors control too much/not enough. Dove season opens this weekend. Bow season opens this weekend. We are a poor state. Ole Miss influences too much. We don't have alumni. We don't have the facilities. Starkville sucks. LSU and Bama take all the players. We dont cheat. We are cheap. and on. and on. and on.

Meanwhile, baseball just keeps on winning. And if we aren't winning, we do what it takes to win.
Best thing I’ve read on here in atleast 5 years. Outstanding !

[Dawgology]

We are not going to get left out if anything. Such a bad take. We are an original member of the SEC. Just because we will likely become the modern Vanderbilt in football just means other teams will get their W in the Fall while we gets ours in the Spring

There will be a realignment in the next 5 years and we will be left out. Book it. I don’t mind baseball at all (grew up playing in school and summer league) but at the end of the day it won’t pay the athletic program bills.

[Tater]

There will be a realignment in the next 5 years and we will be left out. Book it. I don’t mind baseball at all (grew up playing in school and summer league) but at the end of the day it won’t pay the athletic program bills.

We'll get the Kentucky Colonels deal and be the tallest midget in CUSA if that happens. The PAC just saw the groundwork laid for how Oregon State and Wazzu got fat stacks for themselves. What's funny is this super minor league will be ignored by a lot more of America than these school think if they try a 24 team breakaway.

West Coast already doesn't care. Northeast doesn't care. It's really the Midwest and Southeast. If you cut out half the fanbases between the two - you just lose half the viewers. Auburn getting left out doesn't mean Alabama doubles its fanbase lol. (And Auburn is just as at risk of being left out as Vandy, State, OM, Kentucky, etc.)

[BuckyIsAB****]

This BS is so tiresome. I just watched the season opening hype video with Mitch Moreland and it really showed me why people like you crap on baseball so much....

Mississippi State Baseball has EVERYTHING that Football wishes it had. Tradition. Championships. MLB All-Stars and high profile player throughout our history. A place amongst the top teams in the sport. Alumni and Donors who step up and give, and then give again, so we have top facilities, coaches, and players. Fans who show up no matter what - weather, hunting, or whatever obstacles be damned. And we show up and takeover games in other towns like Mobile, Memphis, Houston and OMAHA. We get national recognition and the respect of our peers and media. And most importantly, our fans and university hold it to a standard that we are willing to back up. And we've done it for decades.

I love MSU sports. All of them. But, all I've ever heard from football diehards is excuses, finger-pointing, and blame. It's the AD. It's the coach. The donors control too much/not enough. Dove season opens this weekend. Bow season opens this weekend. We are a poor state. Ole Miss influences too much. We don't have alumni. We don't have the facilities. Starkville sucks. LSU and Bama take all the players. We dont cheat. We are cheap. and on. and on. and on.

Meanwhile, baseball just keeps on winning. And if we aren't winning, we do what it takes to win.

Lemonis broke SEC records for consecutive losses man

[Activated Alpha]

I would like to see these guys start mashing the ball and score more runs. We have been less than stellar batting against a far inferior opponent

[THE Bruce Dickinson]

We are not going to get left out if anything. Such a bad take. We are an original member of the SEC. Just because we will likely become the modern Vanderbilt in football just means other teams will get their W in the Fall while we gets ours in the Spring

No foresight at all. There won't be a SEC or Big Ten in 5 years. Just one league called something else. Being a founding member of the SEC won't matter at all at that point. We better get respectable in football in a hurry or the good folks of La Tech and South Alabama are gonna really enjoy our baseball facility for conference series.

[BrunswickDawg]

Lemonis broke SEC records for consecutive losses man

WTF? No he didn't. Just making shit up shows exactly what I am talking about.
Vanderbilt lost 30 consecutive games from '61-'63.
Kentucky lost 24 straight in the 50s.
Hell, just last season Missouri lost 21 straight.

Yes, 18 straight across 22-23 sucked. And Lemonis got fired. We may have given him a year too many - but it's hard to justify firing a coach who won a Natty without giving him a chance to correct things. Either way, when the time came, our folks stepped up and we got a top line coach

When we end up firing Lebby, we will fight for an OC who is flavor of the month, rinse and repeat. Maybe we can try to find someone with ties to The Bear like used to.

[Coach34]

Lemonis broke SEC records for consecutive losses man

Why do you post random bullshit? Cohen went 6-24 one season

[Coach34]

No foresight at all. There won't be a SEC or Big Ten in 5 years. Just one league called something else. Being a founding member of the SEC won't matter at all at that point. We better get respectable in football in a hurry or the good folks of La Tech and South Alabama are gonna really enjoy our baseball facility for conference series.

We wont get left out of anything. All Big 3 sports will be taken into account if anything new happens. All this worrying crap is just that

Candy has been dogshit for 50 years in football and suddenly they will be chosen ahead of us???? Get out of here with that nonsense

[Coach34]

The new football league you guys keep clutching your pearls over if it happens doesnt want to be a league of Titans. They dont want to have a Natty type game every week or teams will get beat to shit and back. They have to have some easy games here and there in the schedule. Nobody wants a league where the playoff teams are all 9-3 to 7-5 because its all Blue Bloods

Stop the pearl clutching and enjoy baseball season.

[PGHBulldogBG]

One of the big reasons we don’t succeed is because our fans like to stick their heads in the sand instead of understanding the future.

[Dawgology]

One of the big reasons we don’t succeed is because our fans like to stick their heads in the sand instead of understanding the future.

Exactly. There will be a realignment and football will be the sport with the overwhelming weight. The SEC will be comprised of the teams that don’t make it into the Super Leagues that are created. Yeah…we won’t be kicked out of the SEC but the SEC will be a glorified CUSA at that point.

[Dawgology]

We wont get left out of anything. All Big 3 sports will be taken into account if anything new happens. All this worrying crap is just that

Candy has been dogshit for 50 years in football and suddenly they will be chosen ahead of us???? Get out of here with that nonsense

No. Vandy won’t be in either. I would imagine it will only be the top 8 teams in the SEC that will move to the new league

[preachermatt83]

Lemonis broke SEC records for consecutive losses man

He also set records winning. I mean? that kinda proves brunswicks point I think.

[Tater]

No. Vandy won’t be in either. I would imagine it will only be the top 8 teams in the SEC that will move to the new league

If it's that little of a league (20 or less) then it's better longterm to not be in that group. They'll be NFL junior and lose their bargaining power when the NFL comes for Saturday slots.

You guys just totally miss that the only thing the NFL from eating up Saturdays is that College was given saturdays. Become another pro league and that's done. And the NFL knows that's money on the table.

[THE Bruce Dickinson]

We wont get left out of anything. All Big 3 sports will be taken into account if anything new happens. All this worrying crap is just that

Candy has been dogshit for 50 years in football and suddenly they will be chosen ahead of us???? Get out of here with that nonsense

Big 2 sports*. NO ONE CARES ABOUT BASEBALL.


It would be like Minnesota being sure that they would get in because of hockey (which generates twice the revenue of college baseball).

[Coach34]

Big 2 sports*. NO ONE CARES ABOUT BASEBALL.


It would be like Minnesota being sure that they would get in because of hockey (which generates twice the revenue of college baseball).

The SEC does. 9 of the top 10 teams in attendance are from the SEC. Since 2017, the CWS champ has been from the SEC every year except 1 in 2018.

So yes, it factors into the SEC's decisions.

[Quaoarsking]

And for the record, hockey factors in to Big 10 decisions too. They care about it like we care about baseball.

It would be good for college baseball for the Big 10 to make the decision to become the 2nd best conference rather than the 4th or 5th best like they are now. Michigan, Nebraska, and the West Coast additions are taking it seriously, but baseball needs Ohio State to start caring.

[Coursesuper]

And for the record, hockey factors in to Big 10 decisions too. They care about it like we care about baseball.

It would be good for college baseball for the Big 10 to make the decision to become the 2nd best conference rather than the 4th or 5th best like they are now. Michigan, Nebraska, and the West Coast additions are taking it seriously, but baseball needs Ohio State to start caring.

It wasn’t that long ago they and more of the big 10 did, right now it’s Michigan and the west coast teams that do. But baseball is a sunshine sport.

[Quaoarsking]

But baseball is a sunshine sport.

That's always the excuse that people make for why the Big Ten isn't a great baseball conference, but it doesn't really work when 17 of 18 Big Ten teams play baseball, and the conference does put up enough funding/NIL to be the 4th best (or 5th best if you want to put the Sun Belt ahead of them) conference out of 30.

I'm not asking why Ohio State isn't regularly going to Omaha, I'm asking why their boosters allow them to be outside the top 200 baseball programs in the country when they don't tolerate that in any other sport, including softball (which starts earlier in February). Just because it's cold in the early part of the season doesn't mean you can't attract good talent and have competitive teams if you're able and willing to fund them.

[99jc]

We wont get left out of anything. All Big 3 sports will be taken into account if anything new happens. All this worrying crap is just that

Candy has been dogshit for 50 years in football and suddenly they will be chosen ahead of us???? Get out of here with that nonsense

34 is right MSU will be around after you and I are gone. Some people are just dumbasses, and they can't help it It's all in the DNA!

[Todd4State]

As far as college baseball goes schools like Hawaii, USM, and Coastal Carolina are having really good crowds. People care.

And let's not pretend that Purdue, Stanford, and UCLA are selling our football every game. So why does college baseball have to have everyone care about it at every school for it to be important?

[Todd4State]

That's always the excuse that people make for why the Big Ten isn't a great baseball conference, but it doesn't really work when 17 of 18 Big Ten teams play baseball, and the conference does put up enough funding/NIL to be the 4th best (or 5th best if you want to put the Sun Belt ahead of them) conference out of 30.

I'm not asking why Ohio State isn't regularly going to Omaha, I'm asking why their boosters allow them to be outside the top 200 baseball programs in the country when they don't tolerate that in any other sport, including softball (which starts earlier in February). Just because it's cold in the early part of the season doesn't mean you can't attract good talent and have competitive teams if you're able and willing to fund them.

The Big 10 has never committed to baseball. It's their fault. No different than Mizzou in the SEC if you think about it.

[Dawgology]

34 is right MSU will be around after you and I are gone. Some people are just dumbasses, and they can't help it It's all in the DNA!

State will be here. And they will still be in the SEC I’m sure. What the SEC looks like at that point is the question but I doubt the SEC will include Bama, LSU, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, or Ole Miss at that point

[Quaoarsking]

State will be here. And they will still be in the SEC I’m sure. What the SEC looks like at that point is the question but I doubt the SEC will include Bama, LSU, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, or Ole Miss at that point

If the "elites" break away, Ole Miss will be the 13th or 14th SEC school invited to the breakaway league.

I don't think it's going to happen though. I expect the entire Power Four to break away, not a subset of it. Fans of the "left behind" schools wouldn't shift their allegiances, so consolidation wouldn't really work. Washington State and Oregon State got left behind because they barely had any fans to begin with.

[Dawgology]

If the "elites" break away, Ole Miss will be the 13th or 14th SEC school invited to the breakaway league.

I don't think it's going to happen though. I expect the entire Power Four to break away, not a subset of it. Fans of the "left behind" schools wouldn't shift their allegiances, so consolidation wouldn't really work. Washington State and Oregon State got left behind because they barely had any fans to begin with.

I just assumed they would take the highest performing football team in each state to maintain the footprint. It wouldn’t make sense from a marketing and money stand point to leave a state completely out.

[PGHBulldogBG]

Oregon State has a better baseball program than us and they got left behind. Baseball does not generate revenue the way football and basketball do. It is going to be all about which schools like generate the most money. I have no idea what college sports will look like in 5-10 years, but I guarantee our baseball program one way or another is not going to determine where we land.

[THE Bruce Dickinson]

Oregon State has a better baseball program than us and they got left behind. Baseball does not generate revenue the way football and basketball do. It is going to be all about which schools like generate the most money. I have no idea what college sports will look like in 5-10 years, but I guarantee our baseball program one way or another is not going to determine where we land.

Exactly

[Goldendawg]

Oregon State has a better baseball program than us and they got left behind. Baseball does not generate revenue the way football and basketball do. It is going to be all about which schools like generate the most money. I have no idea what college sports will look like in 5-10 years, but I guarantee our baseball program one way or another is not going to determine where we land.

We are the Washington Generals under Lebby in our own conference, 1-15. We have to get our act together ASAP with wins. I bet every opponent, even most OOC teams, circles us as a win on their schedules. Baseball won't save us from a mega-conference realignment, just as a successful hockey program won't save any northern/eastern teams. Football wags the dog in all programs that don't produce their own revenue to exist.