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[Quaoarsking]

Does anyone think that Lemonis is ever going to get us back into being a national title contender?

I wouldn't be shocked if we made the Tournament next year since most SEC do, but does anyone think that we'll get back to the point under Lemonis where we're hosting Regionals more often than a random fluke year and getting to Omaha with a realistic shot to win it all?

If you do think he can do that, then it would make sense to give him another year. I myself do not have any faith that that can happen. It's not just that our pitching sucks. We are fundamentally weak (not weak-minded or weak-hearted, just weak at fundamentals) and are less than the sum of our parts. That's a huge red flag to me that the coaching is the problem, and that's why I support firing Lemonis, even though I still love the guy for what he accomplished here.

The worst case scenario is that we keep Lemonis, we have another losing SEC record in 2024 but sneak into a Regional anyway (which we do not win), and maybe that happens again in 2025, but a bunch of our fans think that just making the Regionals are enough and there is less momentum to get rid of him in 2025 than there is today, and we just sink into merely being a mediocre baseball program that makes Regionals more often than not simply because SEC teams have good RPIs usually.