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Those have left plus a couple more. We are losing Larry, Clark, our captain, Led…Nixon, Cade….plus the talk is teams will have a 40 man roster next season
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Originally Posted by bulldogcountry1
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Those have left plus a couple more. We are losing Larry, Clark, our captain, Led…Nixon, Cade….plus the talk is teams will have a 40 man roster next season
There's rumors that Nixon will be backQuote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
The Draft and money offered will sort all that outQuote:
Originally Posted by KOdawg1
Top of my head: Hunt Stinnett Cade Yntema Gartman Ledbetter Hancock E5 Forsythe (the SS version) Clark Larry Hoyle. Maybe Seibert? That would be 12. Maybe we push put a few guys on tip of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by bulldogcountry1
Get say, 10 Fr in and 2 position player transfers and 4 pitchers and it does seem were tight on spots
what incoming freshmen have just recently enrolled and are on campus now?
A lot of discussion in this thread about what it will take for Lemonis to be back after 2024. I'm not going to put in any firm criteria on it but will say that I think we will know it when we see it. A 2 seed in a regional seems to be what most people thinks gets him another year but, for me, I think it matters as much about how we get there. Just getting there isn't enough; it's how we look doing it. Are we a borderline host? Did we play solid down the stretch? Were we a distant 4th in the SEC West and Arky or LSU had a bunch of injuries that tanked their season so we moved up a spot or two? Did we start the year with some injuries but got some guys back late that were difference makers? Every year there a 2 and 3 seed teams that have a legit chance to make a run in the tournament but there are also 2 or 3 seed teams that are seriously flawed with virtually no chance...the question will be which one are we? And we'll have to be honest with ourselves at that time.
Nixon returning would be great.Quote:
Originally Posted by KOdawg1
I want to know how it feels to get a portal player that will start for us on opening day
We’ve done that every year so far and will continue to do so. You guys are being ridiculousQuote:
Originally Posted by BigDawg81
40 man roster was approved for 1 year, back in March I believe.
11.7 schollys for 32 players and 8 walk-ons.
Correct, we always get a true stud. Ledbetter, Yeager, Dubrule... We'll probably get 1-2 this year. The issue is that we need like, 5... 1 to replace Ledbetter, 1 to replace Clark and his team leading BA in SEC play, 1 to upgrade 3B, then 2 studs on the mound that can give us 8-9 really high end innings a weekend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
We probably get a good OF, 3B, and about 6IP of really good pitching. But I doubt we get as much as we need to go from 13th in the SEC to making a Super, which should be the State standard. With our resources and history being in the final 16 teams should be the norm, occasionally missing that, occasionally surpassing it, but making a SR more often than not.
3 transfers. A D2 pitcher, JUCO pitcher and a Backup Catcher and there isn?t a concern? The biggest transfer target isn?t even the portal. I?m just watching every team getting transfers but State and I?m supposed to be fine with it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
What's the alternative?Quote:
Originally Posted by BigDawg81
Check back after the portal closes in about a week. Then we'll all be ready to discuss.
I agree with thisQuote:
Originally Posted by The Federalist Engineer
DJ doesn't count.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Would a power 5 all American count, hypothetically of courseQuote:
Originally Posted by Cowbell
Don't teaseQuote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
Seriously?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Leroy Jenkins
Fire the morher17er like they should?ve done. The NIL excuse is total 17n bullshit. The dude isn?t getting it done and hasn?t since champ year.
He?s clearly about to coach some but is clueless in rebeuiribg and developing.
1000% have a desire to be wrong but my gosh, how in the 17 can you not capitalize on an NC?!
Im saying right now, today, what's the alternative?Quote:
Originally Posted by SPMT
We just finished 14th and 13th in the SEC and didn’t fire him. Do you really think we are going to fire him if he makes the Tourney this Spring?Quote:
Originally Posted by TheLostDawg
Don’t hold your breath
Making the sec and regional is always the goal. He would be back making both but if we lost opening Sec round then went two and out I imagine he would be gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
With our resources, the "goal" should be Omaha, a Super should be considered "normal" (We have top 16 history, coaching pay, NIL, facilities, amd Cohen/Cann/Henderson/early Lemo all showed it's consistently achievable here), and a regional is the bare minimum. Just making the field of 64 is a pathetically low bar, probably the equivalent of a 5-7 football season for us. Just because Lemo has been doing the equivalent of 4-8 these past 2 seasons doesn't mean we should view a 5-7 season as the "goal".Quote:
Originally Posted by basedog
IN MY OPPINION, Lemo should be fired if he can't get back to the State standard of a SR. Or at least be 1 win away from making a SR. He's lost all grace, it's time to prove you can get us back or get out.
However, I agree with C34 about what WILL happen. If he makes a regional I bet the same boosters/AD that didn't fire him after missing Hoover a 2nd straight years will not fire him after making the field of 64. And we will then have a 4th year of bad/mediocre Baseball in '25 before we get a new coach.
Meanwhile Vitello doing work in Knoxville. . . . . .UT gets big time player outta Clemson (Billy Amick). . . . .
https://sports.yahoo.com/billy-amick...rth%20Carolina.
When do we expect to start seeing movement?
Around the end of May next year.Quote:
Originally Posted by LibraryDawg
Congrats guys on lowering the standard
I refuse to mail it in like some fans. In my job, I interact with incoming students fairly regularly. Cheese and Loper have been in my office with the freshman throughout the summer and those guys as well as the players are still engaged. They want to win and I think they now have the ability to win with Parker coming in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mjoelner34
Who is lowering the standard? Most everyone is saying he needs to make a Super Regional to stay barring some extenuating circumstances.Quote:
Originally Posted by BuckyIsAB****
Rep given.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Mjoelner34
we haven't lowered anything. the way the team has played lowered it.Quote:
Originally Posted by BuckyIsAB****
I seen a lot and heard some crazy things the past 2 years. People going down with Lemonis until the end of the 2023 season. I really don?t hear from them too much anymore. They are just optimistic now. The craziest of all is State baseball fans getting put in the same sentence with Alabama football. I never thought Mississippi State fans would get called spoiled for having high standards. What a day to be alive on that day.
I sincerely hope I'm wrong. I'll still buy season tickets and make 70 to 80% of the home games but I'm in full "I'll believe it when I see it" mode.Quote:
Originally Posted by LibraryDawg
What threads are you reading?? I and a VERY few others have mentioned a SR being the standard. I've seen NOBODY say he's gone if he say, hosts a regional but looses it. I've seen people say a 2 seed keeps him and nobody actually disagreeing that our admin would keep him in that situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Todd4State
What an idiot, everyone knows your top Portal commits should be kept secret and they shouldn't even in the Portal yet ***Quote:
Originally Posted by Saltydog
Imagine talking to an Ole Miss fan about football. You say they have no QB or DL and probably won't be good, and he responds with "No man you don't know! There's this absolute stud of a QB who's transferring here and some top end SEC DL as well! Oh their names? Uhh the names are secret. And they aren't in the Portal despite it only being 2 weeks away from closing. But they'll totally enter and commit to us roght before the end! The Message Board Insiders implied it!"
You'd laugh in the face of that OM fan for being a homer. NOW, is it possible we pull Montgomery and a stuf 3B at the last second like some have said? Sure. But the evidence for it is no greater than that OM fan above...
Rosey saying we have secured our 3B guy and waiting for him to announce
Another silent commit. Awesome!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
Does Rosey even have any info? Didn't we just see him throw pitching coach names at the wall because he had no insider info?Quote:
Originally Posted by Coach34
That?s all fine and dandy but until I see some announcements, I?m not going to consider anyone in the boat.
We agree. That's why I was asking Bucky who was lowering the standard.Quote:
Originally Posted by the_real_MSU_is_us
Even as a two seed I could see situations where Lemonis may not be safe. Really depends on the context of the whole season.