We've Been Better . . .

[ULtimateCajun]

Bottomline I don't see a leader on the field. I sat front row behind home plate Saturday for game 1 and after errors and meetings on the pitchers mound there was no fire, no leadership. They would all just kind of put there heads down and walk back to position. After game 1 I saw Harmon (I think? #11) took a big group of players out to left field and he was getting fired up and yelling, it got me hyped up but then they came out for game two and layed another egg. if you actually look at the players they look shell shocked. "You can have everyone tell you how good you are until they are blue in the face, but if you don't go out there and show it, it's all just hot air and smoke."

[rhineaux]

we will be losing all of our senior leadership (Hawkins, Moody, Farquar, Solich, Glass, Gisclair, Hatfield etc....) and will be relying on Freshmen and Sophmores. We will truly be rebuilding next year. _

At the risk of being too critical...I would say 'yes and no'. We ARE certainly going to be losing some seniors...But I don't think that we're losing too many leaders. I'm not saying that there's no leadership on this team, but I think it's an area that's lacking.

Somebody's got to step up to fotenot and tell him to get the freaking spring out of his glove. Somebody's got to step up to Hawkins and Griffen and tell them to put the ball in play. LeFleur looked like he could be that guy on saturday when he had a hard hit triple and a hard hit double.

Somebody's got to stand on a table in the middle of the clubhouse and point at every single pair of eyes watching him, including his own, and make it known that this BS will not stand, and if anyone's comfortable with it, then they need to leave.

This has now become more than beating LSU or Tulane or any other RPI game, this is more than preseason rankings, this is more than making a regional or a super regional. This all now comes down to who's got the stones, and who's got the pride to not let it continue.

[CajunProud]

_ At the risk of being too critical...I would say 'yes and no'. We ARE certainly going to be losing some seniors...But I don't think that we're losing too many leaders. I'm not saying that there's no leadership on this team, but I think it's an area that's lacking.

Somebody's got to step up to fotenot and tell him to get the freaking spring out of his glove. Somebody's got to step up to Hawkins and Griffen and tell them to put the ball in play. LeFleur looked like he could be that guy on saturday when he had a hard hit triple and a hard hit double.

Somebody's got to stand on a table in the middle of the clubhouse and point at every single pair of eyes watching him, including his own, and make it known that this BS will not stand, and if anyone's comfortable with it, then they need to leave.

This has now become more than beating LSU or Tulane or any other RPI game, this is more than preseason rankings, this is more than making a regional or a super regional. This all now comes down to who's got the stones, and who's got the pride to not let it continue. _

I agree 100%.

We need to take a page out of Coach Lee's book and send in a fresh 9.

[CajunProud]

Where is Grant Derouen? Is he injured? He can't do any worse than what we have on the field now.

[CajunRed]

_ I agree 100%.

We need to take a page out of Coach Lee's book and send in a fresh 9. _

The only problem with that is that we don't have 9 left that haven't played. We won't be able to have a "fresh 9" until we let some go at the end of the year and recruit some new ones.

[RaisingCajun08]

_ Where is Grant Derouen? Is he injured? He can't do any worse than what we have on the field now. _

Grant was injured. I say "was" because I do not know the extent of the injury. But if I remember correctly, he has been dressing out and traveling with the team. Maybe someone can give more details.

[RaisingCajun08]

_ At the risk of being too critical...I would say 'yes and no'. We ARE certainly going to be losing some seniors...But I don't think that we're losing too many leaders. I'm not saying that there's no leadership on this team, but I think it's an area that's lacking.

Somebody's got to step up to fotenot and tell him to get the freaking spring out of his glove. Somebody's got to step up to Hawkins and Griffen and tell them to put the ball in play. LeFleur looked like he could be that guy on saturday when he had a hard hit triple and a hard hit double.

Somebody's got to stand on a table in the middle of the clubhouse and point at every single pair of eyes watching him, including his own, and make it known that this BS will not stand, and if anyone's comfortable with it, then they need to leave.

This has now become more than beating LSU or Tulane or any other RPI game, this is more than preseason rankings, this is more than making a regional or a super regional. This all now comes down to who's got the stones, and who's got the pride to not let it continue. _

Excellent post! I agree someone needs to be the _____hole and call everyone on the team out.

[CajunProud]

_ The only problem with that is that we don't have 9 left that haven't played. We won't be able to have a "fresh 9" until we let some go at the end of the year and recruit some new ones. _

It's funny you said that, because after I posted, I went to look at the roster and saw that we don't have a fresh 9.

[J-Town Cajun]

For the first time I began seeing guys walk back to the dugout instead of running.

We need to make sure we make our own conference tourney. I don't see our RPI getting high enough to get an at-large bid unless we win the regular season championship but at 0-3 we are behind the 8 ball already.

I still believe we will get on a role at some point because we have good pitching and the bats suck right now but in baseball the averages tend to work themselves out over a season.

I must say the fans are doing their part. With the sorry record and horrible play their were still 1501 in attendence and was a nice college atmosphere for baseball. When the team starts to play better and starts winning again it will get fun again.

Geaux Cajuns

[RaisingCajun08]

I think Robe should put everyone's name in a hat and just pull for the starting lineup tomorrow night.

That statement is almost tounge in cheek and sounds pretty amateur but it would be a good way to make it fun and have everyone relax.