It's going to be a very interesting offseason.

Lemonis's comment about him going out on the road to recruit personally definitely raised my eyebrows.

At the end of the day I think we found what worked best for us at MSU under Cohen. And that carried over for awhile and actually peaked when he left. But what I think happened this year in part at least is we started to go back in a direction that was more like Polk II.

Every program/team, etc. has an identity. To me, our identity is that we are a team that has a blend of super talented players (Clark, Palmeiro, Rooker, Renfroe, etc) and guys that play as hard as they possibly can for 9 innings (Mangum, Stovall, Tanner Allen, Rowdey, MacNamee, etc). It was very positive that Lemonis made a comment about getting back to our culture in his press conference today. We're also about having pitchers that attack the zone and are fearless. (Brantley, Small, Hudson, Graveman, Bednar, Sims). We're going to blend that aggressive pitching with good fundamental defense and on offense we're going to blend our power with speed and aggressive baserunning and small ball. That to me is what MSU baseball is all about. And that's what we've got to get back to on multiple levels.

We're also the team in the SEC that kind of sets the tone for the rest of the conference. Whether that's facilities, fan support, game day experience. I feel like we need to be like that with our strength and conditioning programs too. I think we've really fallen off there this past year and I feel like it has been part of the reason for the mounting injuries we've had on the pitching side. And that needs to be looked at very closely. We need to figure out who the best baseball S&C guy is and then hire him.