Wally Pontiff Classic vs LSU Preview | The Grind

[ZoomZoom]

Or it will be a crappy Memorial Day.

On Memorial Day weekend, every year Colorado opens up Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Moutain National Park...

[Hark Mudspeth]

I am always a glass half full guy.... I think we have the pitchers to win a tournament... I think we will probably by the #1 or #2 see in the SBC tourney.... And a dangerous #3 seed in a regional.... Having said that and taking off my Cajuns glasses I am disappointed like others.. I thought things were lined up for a CWS run this year.... Handsome is a great backstop and a great arm... Notwithstanding his double last night his bat has not been what I thought.... Todd Lott is learning...The kid last nigh(Burch??) hung in against the #8 team in front of a hostile crowd (I could not believe we didn't have more fans.... it was all purple and puke around me)... Anyway I ain't givin up

We have zero attitude, zero arrogance when the only 2 people on your team with any kind of attitude are pitchers, you aren't going to do anything special. We might find our way into a regional but that will be it, which is still an accomplishment and probably means we won either the regular season or tourney but this team just doesn't have the attitudes it takes to go on a run.

[ManAboutTown]

We have zero attitude, zero arrogance when the only 2 people on your team with any kind of attitude are pitchers, you aren't going to do anything special. We might find our way into a regional but that will be it, which is still an accomplishment and probably means we won either the regular season or tourney but this team just doesn't have the attitudes it takes to go on a run.

'07, '09, '14.. We beat teams with our talent.
'00, '02, '05, '15, '16.. We beat teams with our mentality.

We've been pretty average, save for pitching, for 3 years now. We've continued winning because the team just kept coming at teams and the players held others accountable.

Another cavaet: As far as I can see, Deggs, Sim, Scheft recruited Personalities. Yes you had to be able to play, but your mental makeup was very important. Talbot recruits players. He is much more laid back and stat driven. JMO

[LifeTimeCajun]

'07, '09, '14.. We beat teams with our talent.
'00, '02, '05, '15, '16.. We beat teams with our mentality.

We've been pretty average, save for pitching, for 3 years now. We've continued winning because the team just kept coming at teams and the players held others accountable.

Another cavaet: As far as I can see, Deggs, Sim, Scheft recruited Personalities. Yes you had to be able to play, but your mental makeup was very important. Talbot recruits players. He is much more laid back and stat driven. JMO

Trosclair, Clement and Thurman must have been men amongst boys in that clubhouse last year.
Evidentially they "drove the bus"' and we lost our bus drivers.

[ZoomZoom]

Whether you see the glass half empty or half full, just more room for vodka and ice.

[CajunProud]

I'm tired of us recruiting "athletes".

#recruitbaseballplayers

[CajunJack55]

I'm tired of us recruiting "athletes".

#recruitbaseballplayers

This is not the issue..

[LifeTimeCajun]

This is not the issue..

Then what is? It's not like these guys are coming in without creditials. Some of these guys are highly thought of baseball players

[CajunJack55]

Then what is?

See MATs previous post...in my opinion those (and in the past) who are "athletes" tend to be the grinders and leaders we are looking for...not the "baseball player." It all starts with recruiting, we do not get the blue chippers, we need to get athletic guys who can play multiple positions that have a chip on their shoulder but also coach-able. We need more of those kids not less.

[CajunJack55]

Then what is? It's not like these guys are coming in without creditials. Some of these guys are highly thought of baseball players

We may view what the definition of an athlete is differently, in my view Blake Trahan was an athlete, not a "baseball player." We need more Blake Trahans.

[LifeTimeCajun]

We may view what the definition of an athlete is differently, in my view Blake Trahan was an athlete, not a "baseball player."

Phahahaha

[LifeTimeCajun]

See MATs previous post...in my opinion those (and in the past) who are "athletes" tend to be the grinders and leaders we are looking for...not the "baseball player." It all starts with recruiting, we do not get the blue chippers, we need to get athletic guys who can play multiple positions that have a chip on their shoulder but also coach-able. We need more of those kids not less.

Having a chip on your shoulder has nothing to do if you are an athlete or baseball player. Having a chip on your shoulder is about make up of a person. Personality. Alpha male. Mentality. With that being said....Blake Trahan was a baseball player that happened to be a good athlete. He wasn't a "project". Jam Williams is an athlete, not a baseball player. He is a project.