Quote Originally Posted by Goldendawg View Post
In today's what have you done for me lately world, dropping from National Champs to last in the SEC West in one year is really hard to understand. Here's to a very much better 2023.
It?s not hard to understand. We lost our entire weekend rotation from ?21, then lost Sims, Simmons, Hunt, and others which thinned out pitching. Add to it that the ?20 class pitchers had zero development time in ?21 because we carried 25 pitchers on the expanded COVID roster and you have a mess. And in spite of that we were still in the hunt coming out of the Ole Miss series. We ran out of bullpen gas kind of like our women?s basketball team that only had 6 players did. Oh, and we play in the deepest division in the toughest conference in college baseball which had 3 teams in the CWS this year.

We need to do better, but it?s not hard to map out what happened. It?s actually not very different then what happened to Auburn and A&M last year. Once a team shows a weakness, the knives come out and the bloodbath begins. And where did both of those last place teams wind up this year?