Quote Originally Posted by Coach34 View Post
Here we go again. After being completely wrong this past season I see that some of you are doubling down.

We met most of our needs in the portal. We had a better portal this cycle than last year

Offensively, we brought guys in that are going to make it tough for Chance and Downs to get AB's. We already look to be better offensively than we were this past season. Hines should get back to form. Highfill returns. I love that we got an All-B12 freshman that hit .287 with 7 HR's. This time last year you were whining that Hugesack couldnt hit- but now we are stressed he's leaving? O'Brien hit .327 this summer when he got regular AB's. I'm betting we get some growth out of him.

On the mound we dont have the SP's we had- but our bullpen is way better. We already know who most likely works the 8th and 9th for us with Virginia and Black. The overall staff should be pretty damn good.

Lastly- we had a great run from 2012-2021 but that's just what it was- a run. The SEC is not the same as it was then. College baseball is not the same as it was then. The SEC just set a record with 11 teams making a Regional. Plus we are adding Texas and OU now- which would have made 13 teams. We expect to be good in baseball and in 2024 we were. Now bring on 2025 and let's see what we get done.
There does seem to be this weird assumption that none of the players on the 2024 roster will improve at all, especially the ones that didn't play much last year...it's really weird