The Preachers Prediction

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for the remainder of the Baseball season.. I know most of us are very upset with the weekends results but if we could somehow come up with a way to just get a few hits this is how I see the remainder of the season going.

Southern Miss- Pearl, MS - W

Alcorn State- Home- W

Ole Miss - Pearl, MS - L

Jacksonville State- home - W

SEC SERIES:

Ole Miss- Home- W - 2-1

Missouri* Away W- 2-1

Texas A&M* Home W- 2-1

Auburn * Away W- 2-1

Tennessee * home -W- 2-1

Alabama * Away - L- 1-2



SEC RECORD- 17-13

OVERALL RECORD- 34-21

As over-dramatic as so many of us tend to be the truth is 5 years ago we would have loved to have been in this position. Last year we just so happen to get hot at just the right time and we had two things we do not have this year, a true leadoff hitter and a true power hitter. We should all be thankful that we are where we are now. We actually have expectations. We stand in a decent position to atleast have an argument to host a regional and we all know that in post season play we never know what will happen. will I still fuss and complain about Cohen's decision making and our lack of hitting in the heat of a game thread? Sure, but once we sit back and look at it rationally we must come to the conclusion we are in good shape as a program. Anyway that is the "Preacher's Position"... Amen!

I am on an eternal mission to overcome this perception of us being only a mediocre team that got hot late last year.

We won 51 games (I believe the same amount we won in '85) against the 2nd toughest schedule in the ENTIRE COUNTRY.
We finished the year with an RPI of 8 and were the third best SEC team, no matter what the conference record says (because of the ridiculously unbalanced schedule we were dealt compared to Arkansas and USCe). The only two SEC teams that were better than us were two of the better teams in the entire history of the conference.
We comfortably earned the right to host a regional, and given a good bounce or two in the early SEC schedule, we would have been right in the thick of the national seed conversation.
We won what was by far the most difficult regional RPI-wise.
We went on the road and swept a national seed to get to Omaha, who had only lost 3-4 home games all year to that point. I'd go so far as to say that our road to Omaha was tougher than anyone's, outside of maybe Louisville.
We then beat the #3 national seed twice in Omaha, and beat another regional host team there as well.
I don't know the exact number, but I'd estimate that about 50% (if not more) of the players on the roster in 2013 have been or will be drafted at some point.

Did we get hot at the right time? Of course, but ANYONE in the entire country who plays for the national title is going to get hot in the postseason- if they weren't hot, they wouldn't have made it that far. And honestly the only real "break" that I can remember us catching the entire postseason was when Louisville eliminated Vandy in their Super Regional, thus keeping them out of our bracket in Omaha.

I don't know where this idea of us being just a "hot team" last year came from, but the fact is- we were really ****ing good. We were easily one of the 10-12 best teams in the country, if you factor in everything that happened throughout the course of that season, IMO.