We SHOULD be better in baseball than we are. Baseball has the most resources relatively speaking of all of the sports programs- unfortunately I'd have to say it has also been arguably the worst managed.

It all started when we decided to bring Polk back again. Pick a year- 1992 or 2002. I'm starting with 2002 for this post. Polk gradually ran our program into the ground and created a non-competitive soft environment. We had that lingering around for seven years. Now we're to the 10 years that the OP is about....

Years 1-2 were massive rebuild years from the seven years that Polk was here. We had to essentially start from scratch to modernize our recruiting. On top of that we had a lot of our own fans against Cohen not to mention Ole Miss, USM, and Ron Polk himself among others. Somehow by 2011 we made a SR. A lot of it was because while we lacked elite talent we had changed our image from soft to hard nosed and tough. The next two years- SEC Tournament Championship and then the high mark of the Cohen era the CWS Finals.

Then for some reason our players let their success get to their head and while we made a regional in 2014 we had the third losing season the next year in 2015. I'm assuming that around this time was when Cohen started to think about moving to administration.

2016 we made a comeback and won the SEC but the craziness that goes on to this day had started- Butch left in the offseason, we hired Wes and then pitchers started to get hurt. Mingione left in the offseason and then Cohen moved up to AD and we hired Cann. On top of it all we were building a new stadium causing a lot of challenges with practice and a long road schedule looming.

2017 was a good year as we made a SR and it looked like we had a star coach in the making. And then we had his scandal occur which is where we are now. So, to recap:

2009- losing season Thanks Ron!
2010- losing season Thanks Ron!
2011- SR
2012- SEC Tournament Champs
2013- CWS Finals
2014- Regionals
2015- WTF Cohen?
2016- SEC Champs/SR
2017- SR
2018- WTF Cann? Henderson-ing.

So, if you look at it we actually have four losing seasons the last ten assuming we have a losing season this year. The rest of the seasons have been for the most part good though- and certainly at a level of minimum expectation. And that for me is a SR appearance.

What we have very obviously lacked is stability. And that's why it is best for us to start over with a new staff and everything because while this year sucks I don't think we are so far gone where a new coach wouldn't be able to come in and turn things around within a year or two of hire. We need to find someone that can get elite talent and also at the same time instill toughness in our team because right now we are soft again. I think it happens this offseason but we'll see.