Lemonis seems excited about a new commit

[The Federalist Engineer]

We need to either drop the SECT and add a regular season SEC weekend or extend the SECT to have pool play.

To make an interesting 11th Week - Play an SEC Championship Series instead of a Tournament.

Play an SEC Championship Series in Sarasota (George M. Steinbrenner Field): East vs West Champ
2nd Place Series: East vs West Runner Up in Arlington
3rd Place Series: East vs West in Memphis

Then let 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th play each other. The 2nd and 3rd place series would generally be National and/or Host Seeding. High stakes. Play best of 3, so no sweeps, but great for RPI.

This past year would have given College Baseball this awesome weekend:

SEC Championship: Tennessee vs Arkansas (Winner is the SEC Champ)
2nd Place: Vanderbilt vs Mississippi State (National Championship Level)
3rd Place: Florida vs Ole Miss (Winner is a Super Host)
4th Place: South Carolina vs LSU (Winner is a Regional Host)
5th Place: Georgia vs Alabama (winner plays in a Regional)

[EdwardDrayton]

How about a National Championship, is that substantial enough?

Lemonis earned a remaining career tenure as our baseball coach if he so desires.

[Catfish]

Lemonis earned a remaining career tenure as our baseball coach if he so desires.

This!

[Homedawg]

This!

Let him have a couple, if that, off years and people will want him gone. Can't win w his players etc etc. He knows it and knows the next season is what's important

[Catfish]

Let him have a couple, if that, off years and people will want him gone. Can't win w his players etc etc. He knows it and knows the next season is what's important

Hard for me to admit but you're probably right.

[EdwardDrayton]

Let him have a couple, if that, off years and people will want him gone. Can't win w his players etc etc. He knows it and knows the next season is what's important

Some will but the majority will not see it that way.

[Commercecomet24]

How about a National Championship, is that substantial enough?

I believe 82 was just kidding on that as he added the *****

[Catfish]

I believe 82 was just kidding on that as he added the *****

Ok.. Im not sure what ***** means. I went back and edited that post, thanks for the heads up.

[Commercecomet24]

Let him have a couple, if that, off years and people will want him gone. Can't win w his players etc etc. He knows it and knows the next season is what's important

Exactly. I honestly believe he's only gonna get better.

[Commercecomet24]

Why not just start all the backups and develop some depth? Likely 2 and done anyway, but if you make a run with your subs then that's like getting extra bowl practice. In other words, I'm fine with whatever happens in the SECT if we have a National Seed locked up...but I dont understand why it HAS to be a strain on pitching. Just pitch your guys as usual, and no more.

That being said, it should 100% be single elimination or pod play. The current format is garbage.

Yeah if you've got your seed wrapped up use it as a "spring training" type situation. Get your starters a couple
of abs, get your big pitchers a few innings to keep them sharp, and get your backups plenty of playing time to keep them sharp cause you may need them. I honestly believe arky lost their shot at playing for the nc last year with the injuries they got in the sect. Lost their #1 starting pitcher and hard hitting first baseman for the rest of the year and it cost them

And yes single elimination is the way to go.

[Todd4State]

You know as well as I do no baseball team wants to take 2 weeks off.

Let him have a couple, if that, off years and people will want him gone. Can't win w his players etc etc. He knows it and knows the next season is what's important

Why not just start all the backups and develop some depth? Likely 2 and done anyway, but if you make a run with your subs then that's like getting extra bowl practice. In other words, I'm fine with whatever happens in the SECT if we have a National Seed locked up...but I dont understand why it HAS to be a strain on pitching. Just pitch your guys as usual, and no more.

That being said, it should 100% be single elimination or pod play. The current format is garbage.

Yeah if you've got your seed wrapped up use it as a "spring training" type situation. Get your starters a couple
of abs, get your big pitchers a few innings to keep them sharp, and get your backups plenty of playing time to keep them sharp cause you may need them. I honestly believe arky lost their shot at playing for the nc last year with the injuries they got in the sect. Lost their #1 starting pitcher and hard hitting first baseman for the rest of the year and it cost them

And yes single elimination is the way to go.

I think Arkansas got too cocky too. And when that happens in baseball you usually end up like they did too. They blew out NC State in game one and thought it would be easy and even if they lose game two they would "Call the Kopps". Yeah well....

[Captain Falcon]

I think Arkansas got too cocky too. And when that happens in baseball you usually end up like they did too. They blew out NC State in game one and thought it would be easy and even if they lose game two they would "Call the Kopps". Yeah well....

That NC State team was really talented and peaked at the right time. I still contend we caught a bit of a break by not having to deal with them in the Championship, at full strength they were a better team than Vandy. Not saying we wouldn?t have beaten them as well, but I?m sure their fans feel like COVID cost them a national championship.

Regarding Hoover, if last season didn?t prove that it means absolutely nothing for the top teams in the league, anyone who thinks otherwise is just being hard headed.

[Commercecomet24]

Ok.. Im not sure what ***** means. I went back and edited that post, thanks for the heads up.

The **** means a poster is being sarcastic or funny. They call them sarcasterisks, lol!

[AlSwearengen]

I thought Arkansas took a similar trajectory that we did in 2019. Even though they went deep in the sec tournament, you could see that for the last month of the season, they had come back down to earth quite a bit. Their offense cooled off and the few pitchers they had started to wear out. They were still winning but it was a struggle compared to the first 2/3 of the season.

[Todd4State]

That NC State team was really talented and peaked at the right time. I still contend we caught a bit of a break by not having to deal with them in the Championship, at full strength they were a better team than Vandy. Not saying we wouldn?t have beaten them as well, but I?m sure their fans feel like COVID cost them a national championship.

Regarding Hoover, if last season didn?t prove that it means absolutely nothing for the top teams in the league, anyone who thinks otherwise is just being hard headed.

People need to remember that we were at a disadvantage as well because with how it worked out it allowed Vanderbilt to reset their pitching staff on full rest basically. Fortunately Preston Johnson and Sims were lights out and that offset the advantage somewhat.

[SilentSteel16]

Basically if you were paying attention during that month and a half. Lemonis gave a free doctoral class on pitching management and team morale management. He earned every bit of praise last year especially after the SECT which is the most worthless tourney in all of sports, because you either play hard or too much or play bad and lose confidence and get rusty. Two weeks is a LONNNGGG time for a pitching staff to sit and flat ground and bullpen work just doesn’t cut it.

[Commercecomet24]

People need to remember that we were at a disadvantage as well because with how it worked out it allowed Vanderbilt to reset their pitching staff on full rest basically. Fortunately Preston Johnson and Sims were lights out and that offset the advantage somewhat.

This. They had their 2 first round pick starters rested and ready. It was our year, and our players and coaches were not being denied.

[BrunswickDawg]

This. They had their 2 first round pick starters rested and ready. It was our year, and our players and coaches were not being denied.

Our determination was so strong you could smell it all the way from Omaha.

[Commercecomet24]

Basically if you were paying attention during that month and a half. Lemonis gave a free doctoral class on pitching management and team morale management. He earned every bit of praise last year especially after the SECT which is the most worthless tourney in all of sports, because you either play hard or too much or play bad and lose confidence and get rusty. Two weeks is a LONNNGGG time for a pitching staff to sit and flat ground and bullpen work just doesn’t cut it.

Yes he did! Lemonis played the long game perfectly.

[redstickdawg]

Yes he did! Lemonis played the long game perfectly.

When I saw that he was "passing on the SECT" I realized that he was playing the long term strategy game and he was prepping for Omaha.