Quote Originally Posted by bulldogcountry1 View Post
Evaluating the current roster:

There needs to be a brutally honest closed-door assessment of the roster, and it needs to go beyond the coaching staff. The core group of guys expected to lead next year need to be able to speak their minds about who needs to go and who needs to stay. People outside the clubhouse but close to the program with baseball knowledge (Polk, Powell, etc) need to to be heard about what they see in individual players. We need to get back to the Mississippi State way, which is the tough, blue collar, hard-working way. If we have guys who aren't compatible with that formula, they need to go, even if they could be a potential starter next year. Lemonis shouldn't be doing anything else until this happens.
Baseball's Junction Boys.
Two things to add:
1. Does anyone remember the visiting coach cancelling a game due to cold weather after his team was dressed and in the dugout when Cohen was coach? Cohen raised all kinds of hell that it should have been a forfeit. Anyway, it rained the night before and maybe earlier in the day and it was about 39 degrees. The visiting team walks into their dugout and sees our non-pitchers practicing lead-offs and cross over steps down the LF line. When they would practice diving back to the bag, they were sloshing water up then would get up and do it again. The coach saw that and knew his ass was whipped and backed out of the game.
2. I went to a fall practice and saw Jake Mangum hauling ass full speed then laying out full horizontal on a sinking liner in the gap during BP. This wasn't freshman Jake Mangum trying to impress and break into the lineup. This was senior Jake Mangum showing what its about.