UL softball hits road, drops first game of tourney

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Originally Posted by Hammer58

_ Hey it gave the the local tanktoppers something to chirp about on the DA website. They have had to endure weeks of nothing but stories of success by UL's basketball team and the softball team for weeks now. Some tanktop tool calling himself "colonel2008" (I wonder of that means he graduated from Nicholls like world famous tanktop fan Big Ragoo?) had to chime in on the softball loss in response to the story about the basketball team and in the story about the bus accident with the erroneous headline. So maybe it was a charity loss to keep the local tanktoppers from jumping off the Basin Bridge.:p _

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I thought that they didn't care about softball?:???: It will be interesting to see what the national polls do because of this loss. I think that you'll see the perception of the Cajuns. UCLA loses and they only drop 1 spot.

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Originally Posted by ulforlife

_ Wow, you didn't get the joke? and it's not the end of the world apparently you don't remember in 2007 we lost to Alcorn State and a few weeks later beat #2 Arizona State

like I said, if we go 5-0 next weekend no one will still be worrying that we lost to Southern, except of course, you.



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Here is why YOU should care. At the end of the season UL is looking for a national seed, the committee looks at UL and sees good wins, and bad loses. Bad lose number one SU was 1-10 at the meeting. You can bet that will not go unnoticed.

We have been placed in a weak softball conference and we don't get as many opportunites to beat the good teams as in the past. The team really needs to take care of business against bad teams which SU truly is at this point.

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Originally Posted by ulforlife

_ Wow, you didn't get the joke? and it's not the end of the world apparently you don't remember in 2007 we lost to Alcorn State and a few weeks later beat #2 Arizona State

like I said, if we go 5-0 next weekend no one will still be worrying that we lost to Southern, except of course, you.



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Sleep well ULforLife. You are correct. The greatest teams in softball, like baseball, can quite easily drop a game to a lesser program. It happens all of the time and because of that, this loss to Southern does not spoil the season. It gives the coaches 10x the power now to get the focus on every single hard practice, etc, etc. For people to act like this is substantial is stupid. It is not like a powerhouse football program dropping one of 12 regular season games to an underdog. With a lot of the season left, and much better programs yet to be faced, you can all but obliterate this loss.

The biggest "stupid" for those squawking about it is... it's a pimple and it is gone.