MSU vs. Tennessee Game 1 Thread

[Bothrops]

Now we're under a lot of pressure to win the next two. We haven't played well under pressure this year.

[Todd4State]

What are you even talking about now?

Calling our coach a moron is offering something to the thread?

What Matt considers "valuable" to a thread is completely different than anyone else with a normally functioning brain.

[preachermatt83]

What Matt considers "valuable" to a thread is completely different than anyone else with a normally functioning brain.

[DudyDawg]

I usually try to avoid postgame bashing posts for a while after the game ends, but I truly don't think I've ever seen a team as hit as poorly situationally in my entire life as we did against JSU and UT tonight. And I really don't think that's a postgame overreaction- that was honestly the most pathetic excuse for situational hitting I've ever seen. I mean, my God, that was truly awful in every conceivable way.

And the worst part? You just knew the entire time that we'd find a way to **** it up...

Last part couldn't be more right. Bases loaded twice and not once was I sitting there thinking "yes they're loaded we got this". Instead I sat there saying "yes they're loaded who screws this up for us". Just God awful

[whosyourdawgy]

The players didn't come thru with clutch hits, but the players that didn't come thru were there because Cohen totally ****ed this game up. First of all having Vickerson at the DH is just absolutely dumb as shit. How many times did he strike out and kill our momentum? Then losing Collins because we HAVE to put in Randolph to catch Lindgren(who sucked tonight too). What did Randolph do at the plate tonight when he got a chance? Struck out every freaking time he batted and failed to get the bat on the ball on a dumbass hit and run call that got Pirtle thrown out at 3rd. Momentum killer not to mention he didn't catch shit. That move alone I think cost us this game. We had the bases loaded in the 8th and the 9th. When the bases got loaded in the 8th, Walker K'd which is where Collins shoulda been, Vick K'd, and then our only hope Armstrong K'd(which is unusual). Then in the 9th we load the bases up again with one out and Heck pops up then Walker again ends it.

So the players didn't get the hits, but the coach and his management of the game is what had the players not in the game that needed to be there to have our best shot at getting those hits.

We needed to sweep this very average UT team. Instead we are in the hole again on a Friday like we started the SEC off with and will have to hope that Ross can once again come and get us a W tomorrow. Hopefully Cohen will set a good lineup tomorrow and not **** with it during the game so we will have a chance to have more than 2 hitters in a row that can actually hit the freaking ball!

[HoopsDawg]

The players didn't come thru with clutch hits, but the players that didn't come thru were there because Cohen totally ****ed this game up. First of all having Vickerson at the DH is just absolutely dumb as shit. How many times did he strike out and kill our momentum? Then losing Collins because we HAVE to put in Randolph to catch Lindgren(who sucked tonight too). What did Randolph do at the plate tonight when he got a chance? Struck out every freaking time he batted and failed to get the bat on the ball on a dumbass hit and run call that got Pirtle thrown out at 3rd. Momentum killer not to mention he didn't catch shit. That move alone I think cost us this game. We had the bases loaded in the 8th and the 9th. When the bases got loaded in the 8th, Walker K'd which is where Collins shoulda been, Vick K'd, and then our only hope Armstrong K'd(which is unusual). Then in the 9th we load the bases up again with one out and Heck pops up then Walker again ends it.

So the players didn't get the hits, but the coach and his management of the game is what had the players not in the game that needed to be there to have our best shot at getting those hits.

We needed to sweep this very average UT team. Instead we are in the hole again on a Friday like we started the SEC off with and will have to hope that Ross can once again come and get us a W tomorrow. Hopefully Cohen will set a good lineup tomorrow and not **** with it during the game so we will have a chance to have more than 2 hitters in a row that can actually hit the freaking ball!

This is spot on. And it's really, really hard for a coach in baseball to fck things up with in-game decisions, but Cohen manages to do it several times a year. Taking Collins out was huge.

[DawgSaint]

I was so sick after the game I didn't listen to Cohen's post game. He say anything if substance?

[msstate7]

I was so sick after the game I didn't listen to Cohen's post game. He say anything if substance?

Can't hit the 10 foot putt or some crap

[DawgSaint]

Can't hit the 10 foot putt or some crap

Sounds about right

[I seen it dawg]

He does add to the conversation at times. There are many on here that don't do that at all.

I'm just kidding

[DudyDawg]

I was so sick after the game I didn't listen to Cohen's post game. He say anything if substance?

Said they did Randolph Collins move in auburn and it worked. Said it didn't tonight. Said bottom of order needs to step up w RISP. Said we need to be men

[DudyDawg]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGFKFknrjog here it is

[cbrunt29]

I was so sick after the game I didn't listen to Cohen's post game. He say anything if substance?

He also said, "We didn't lose to Tennessee tonight. The game punched us in the face."

Whatever the hell that means

[DudyDawg]

He also said, "We didn't lose to Tennessee tonight. The game punched us in the face."

Whatever the hell that means

He's referring to lingo slider bouncing 4 feel left of the plate and hitting Randolph in the face three times

[DawgSaint]

He also said, "We didn't lose to Tennessee tonight. The game punched us in the face."

Whatever the hell that means

He tries to be all philosophical with "the game moves to fast" or "the game will find you" Umm it would be the ball that "finds" you. And it's either pitched or hit by the other team. So yes, Tennessee beat us!

[I seen it dawg]

Lol yes he is. Lingo wasn't a first rounder tonite.

[I seen it dawg]

And sometimes it rains

[berr6728]

you as Mississippi State follows should realize by now that Cohen is not our answer to our head baseball coach. He is pathetic as a head coach. I have followed MSU baseball for 54 years and this is the most pathetic season I have ever folowred in the 54 years of MSU baseball. We are a horrible team. There is decention on this team and I do know if John knows how to solve it. I will not go back to watch this chatic display of baseball by Cohens coached team. I am in favor of looking at changing who is in charge and that includes our head coach. I am sorry to state this but I left early after the Ole Miss fiasco and vowed I would not go back until we change coaches. We are a sorry example of a baseball team. All you that think we are ok as Gene of Genes page has said are drinking the maroon koolaid we stink as a baseball team.

[FFF]

The players didn't come thru with clutch hits, but the players that didn't come thru were there because Cohen totally ****ed this game up. First of all having Vickerson at the DH is just absolutely dumb as shit. How many times did he strike out and kill our momentum? Then losing Collins because we HAVE to put in Randolph to catch Lindgren(who sucked tonight too). What did Randolph do at the plate tonight when he got a chance? Struck out every freaking time he batted and failed to get the bat on the ball on a dumbass hit and run call that got Pirtle thrown out at 3rd. Momentum killer not to mention he didn't catch shit. That move alone I think cost us this game. We had the bases loaded in the 8th and the 9th. When the bases got loaded in the 8th, Walker K'd which is where Collins shoulda been, Vick K'd, and then our only hope Armstrong K'd(which is unusual). Then in the 9th we load the bases up again with one out and Heck pops up then Walker again ends it.

So the players didn't get the hits, but the coach and his management of the game is what had the players not in the game that needed to be there to have our best shot at getting those hits.

We needed to sweep this very average UT team. Instead we are in the hole again on a Friday like we started the SEC off with and will have to hope that Ross can once again come and get us a W tomorrow. Hopefully Cohen will set a good lineup tomorrow and not **** with it during the game so we will have a chance to have more than 2 hitters in a row that can actually hit the freaking ball!

I'd say this, but he's mismanaged this team all season long. Armstrong gets on a hot streak... what does Cohen do? Platoon him with Vickerson... AFTER Vickerson has led off all year and has either K'ed or popped up. We had a new lineup every damn night and NONE of them included hitters. Instead of working guys like Garner and Randolph in at DH (since... you know... they were recruited to hit), we leave in the Vickerson experiment and switch them up every night instead of letting them learn and grow in a spot and making adjustments from there. We have had zero continuity this year, zero heart, and worst of all, this team has no idea who they are (ESPECIALLY at the plate) and no one to lead them, and it's strictly on Cohen.

[messageboardsuperhero]

you as Mississippi State follows should realize by now that Cohen is not our answer to our head baseball coach. He is pathetic as a head coach. I have followed MSU baseball for 54 years and this is the most pathetic season I have ever folowred in the 54 years of MSU baseball. We are a horrible team. There is decention on this team and I do know if John knows how to solve it. I will not go back to watch this chatic display of baseball by Cohens coached team. I am in favor of looking at changing who is in charge and that includes our head coach. I am sorry to state this but I left early after the Ole Miss fiasco and vowed I would not go back until we change coaches. We are a sorry example of a baseball team. All you that think we are ok as Gene of Genes page has said are drinking the maroon koolaid we stink as a baseball team.

LOL.

You say this is the worst MSU baseball team you've ever seen in 54 years... How quickly you forget the 2008 fiasco and the absolute joke of a roster Polk left for Cohen- not to mention the fact that he badmouthed Cohen every chance he got. People saying this is the "worst team in MSU history" are laughable to me. We're still going to make a regional and probably finish the season with a winning SEC record.

John Cohen is and will be our coach for the foreseeable future- you might as well accept that. Damn, the guy just took us to the national championship series LAST YEAR, which is something Polk never did with teams more talented than what we had last season.