BB G3: Louisiana @ Sam Houston State

[CajunRage]

It's still February...on average the Cajuns are in a Regional every 3 year. In fact I'm not sure Tony has ever gone over the 3 year mark. I'm not counting him, or this team, out.

I’m not meaning to pull another layer off of this thing but when did the program go back to simply making a regional being success? My honest yet realistic expectation is that we should be playing in a regional final every 3 years. Anyone really want to argue that we shouldn’t be able to do that?

[Big Buds]

I’m not meaning to pull another layer off of this thing but when did the program go back to simply making a regional being success? My honest yet realistic expectation is that we should be playing in a regional final every 3 years. Anyone really want to argue that we shouldn’t be able to do that?

Oh hell no! My point was only to answer the quoted question. There's no doubt your belief had strong merit.

[CajunRage]

Oh hell no! My point was only to answer the quoted question. There's no doubt your belief strong merit.

Oh ok. On mobile forum so it doesn’t show the quote.

[sportsfanatic21]

Back to baseball. Our bullpen gave up 21(!) runs in the 8 innings pitched this weekend from the 7th inning on.

21 runs. In 8 innings.

That seems nearly impossible in this program.

The good news is that we swung the bats fairly well, and there is a quartet of pitchers that have had some nice outings. This start has been atrocious, but maybe another pitcher or two can step up gong forward and join the ones that look like they can be quite effective. All is not lost at this point, but this team needs to learn how to win. 1-6 record. 5 of the 6 losses were a pitch here or a play there from going the other way...and all in games against teams that will likely be right in the mix for postseason berths.

Things could get a lot better moving forward. Unfortunately, they could also get worse.

[Boomer]

ANALYTICS........caused the problem and hopefully will solve it for us.....find out the whys and the why nots and fix it.....never as good or as bad but we ain’t that bad....Geaux Cajuns!

[CajunRage]

Back to baseball. Our bullpen gave up 21(!) runs in the 8 innings pitched this weekend from the 7th inning on.

21 runs. In 8 innings.

That seems nearly impossible in this program.

The good news is that we swung the bats fairly well, and there is a quartet of pitchers that have had some nice outings. This start has been atrocious, but maybe another pitcher or two can step up gong forward and join the ones that look like they can be quite effective. All is not lost at this point, but this team needs to learn how to win. 1-6 record. 5 of the 6 losses were a pitch here or a play there from going the other way...and all in games against teams that will likely be right in the mix for postseason berths.

Things could get a lot better moving forward. Unfortunately, they could also get worse.

2 out of 3 you mean, right? Tech gonna tech again this year.... impressive one regional in the last 31 years

Edit: not sure what happened here. I replied to jacob’s post about everyone being regional contenders.

[Jacob81]

My glimmer of hope right now is that other than LSU and coastal, I hope we played the 3 toughest teams on our schedule, and with any timely hitting or pitching we could be as good as 6-1, but that’s done. So our seniors need to have a come to Jesus meeting (maybe leave Jesus out of it) right the ship now. Win 2/3 the rest of the season puts you at 34-22 in the regular season. With the strength of schedule we could have a solid rpi with that record, but bubble bound we would be. Like most of our recent teams, need a good 8-10 game win streak somewhere along the way to make up for the start.

Season if far from over. I’m upset because ive seen this team (for the most part) last year right the ship and play some good ball. New season now and we’re back at square one. The slow starts are getting old. Let’s turn it around earlier this year.

Geaux Cajuns!!! Get the water hose out.

[CajunRage]

My glimmer of hope right now is that other than LSU and coastal, I hope we played the 3 toughest teams on our schedule, and with any timely hitting or pitching we could be as good as 6-1, but that’s done. So our seniors need to have a come to Jesus meeting (maybe leave Jesus out of it) right the ship now. Win 2/3 the rest of the season puts you at 34-22 in the regular season. With the strength of schedule we could have a solid rpi with that record, but bubble bound we would be. Like most of our recent teams, need a good 8-10 game win streak somewhere along the way to make up for the start.

Season if far from over. I’m upset because ive seen this team (for the most part) last year right the ship and play some good ball. New season now and we’re back at square one. The slow starts are getting old. Let’s turn it around earlier this year.

Geaux Cajuns!!! Get the water hose out.

This weekend should have been a series win at worst. Gonna have to find 2 wins in conference, likely sweeping a couple roads series, to make them up.

[zephyr]

Geaux Cajuns! No I will not. I will be the first here to eat crow. So if they do not make a regional will you disappear??

And NO I do not even know the man. He did a lot for the program but there comes a time when things need to maybe change. I mean if this team does not make a regional for 3 years in row something needs to change.

While your delivery of your message has been a little bit in your face which often breeds contempt, I would agree there is some validity in this post. When you have a program that has seen a measure of success over an extended period of time, a standard is set which breeds higher expectations. When these expectations are not being met (if we fail to reach the NCAA for the 3rd time in a row) for as long as ours have not been met, questions need to be answered even by a coach like Robe. Obviously, I'm not advocating for a change but if this year continued on its path and we missed the postseason once again, I would hope that Maggard would be having a discussion with Robe about meeting those expectations in the future.

[LifeTimeCajun]

not having Gunner this weekend hurt. Win or lose he would of eaten up some innings this weekend. I think this pitching staff could end up deeper than last years staff when it’s all said and done. But Burke, Batty, Armstrong, and Cox, have got to give us quality innings if we are going to win. Yea the double header didn’t help any but u gotta suck it up and get the job done. Bradford didn’t pitch at all this weekend. Was he available?