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The Mississippi State Baseball Paradox
This refers to a large portion of MSU baseball fans and maybe fans in general.
We want to win. We want to play in preseason tournaments, play tough brand name teams OOC, win the Governor's Cup, win the SEC, SEC Tournament, host a regional and a Super Regional as a National Seed, and of course go to Omaha and win it all.
Which is fair because we have accomplished all of those things- most of those things multiple times.
BUT
We have a large segment that also demands that we be "nice" when doing it. We want people to think we're good, classy, and nice. That we just enjoy the game because baseball is great. We want to give players food after the game. And we want the players and coaches to be nice as well. And in turn we are expected to be nice to our coaches and players.
The problem is a large segment of our fans (hi Everett Kennard!) value and place being nice over winning.
We look for answers as to how and why we could drop so quickly as a program in such a short period of time and some of it goes back to overemphasizing the nice over winning.
For example- Lemonis decided to keep several pitching recruits who were known to be injured coming into school. None of those pitchers are with us anymore. That has created a lot of problems. We also kept Foxhall because we wanted to give him another chance. He still sucks. We also have given players on the current roster chances to stay instead of recruiting over them in the portal. Because we're nice.
Just an observation from afar. Until we prioritize winning over being nice like John Cohen did when he was our coach we'll struggle. But people will like us!
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