Quote Originally Posted by StateDawg44 View Post
I don't hate him. But I don't have much confidence in him as our team leader.

Most of the people wanting to move on (including myself) want him to be successful and would love to be proven wrong. But I don't believe he will be able to consistently keep us at an elite level. Whether it's closing on recruits/transfers that are major difference makers or development. We've done much better this year but there is still plenty of room for skepticism moving forward.

He'll likely earn another year and I understand how Selmon likely won't make a move this year if we finish strong.

I want to win so of course, it's not tough to watch us win. It's fun. But it is tough to fully expect to fumble our way through another off-season like we have the past few years while the gap between us and teams that are considered elite grows larger and they just reload where the have needs.
I don't really understand this. Because the entire issue the past two years was mostly the pitching. Lemonis fixed that and here we are. Unless Parker has a similar fall off of a cliff I don't know why our fans expect things to go back? Why? Our hitting hasn't really changed that much between 2019 to 2024.

And as far as recruits and talent- we have three players (not recruits players currently on the team) listed as top 150 draft prospects for this current draft by MLB.com. (Dakota, Hines, and Loo) That's just the draft eligible players. That doesn't include Nolan Stevens, Dylan Cupp, Ethan Pulliam, and etc. It also doesn't include Khal Stephen who has turned into a monster pick up or Mershon both of whom are draft eligible as well. Or Hujsack. So really the only "gaps" we have are Sunday starter, catcher, and third base- ALL of those position groups were greatly affected by injuries this year. Pico is coming back and had he been healthy or Dohm stayed healthy they would have filled the Sunday role. Highfill was supposed to be the catcher and we had to replace him with a guy trying to be an EMT and a guy we brought in for depth in Long who was always supposed to be the back up. Kohler got hurt the first weekend but has been strong defensively. Chance is a solid player and he is only a sophomore but teams need 1-2 guys like that. Amani is streaky and can't hit LHP and he might not be playing if Cupp didn't get hurt. We also lost our best freshman pitching prospect- Makhai Grant to Tommy John as well and he would have absolutely contributed this year.

Watching Ole Miss last night- I was a little surprised by the gap in talent between MSU and Ole Miss. Big difference in our favor. I also happened to sit by some scouts and I noticed that they were paying way more attention to our guys than Ole Miss's.

We have been good in the portal IMO. No we haven't gotten Braden Montgomery- but we meet our needs. I have no reason to suspect that we won't meet our needs this offseason either. Hujsack, Stephen, Dohm, Long, Powell, Larry, Tyler Davis, Kohler- that's pretty solid. And that doesn't include guys like Colton Ledbetter, RJ Yeager, Aaron Nixon, Scotty Dubrule, and etc. We've been way more successful in the portal than not.

We're going to be top five-six in the SEC this year more than likely. The gap between the top and us isn't very big in this league. The teams at the top have the most veteran and highest end talent on the mound- that would be Arkansas and Texas A&M this year. Last year it was LSU. No pitcher in their right mind was coming here with Foxhall around unless you are Jonathan Papelbon, Jr. By 2026 when our rotation is Stevens, Grant, and Dotson- that could very well be us at the top.