Final SB Louisiana 0, Florida State 8

[moorecajun]

I'm pretty sure FSU is in the ACC.

I think he is referring to Ole Miss.

[RoarMan]

"Optism" after beating SEC's ole miss.....another's take not mine. reading is fun...
We beat an SEC team, lose to swac and acc, sounds SEC team overrated

I got you. If they were overrated, it's because they played in the world series last year. I think the biggest issue is, they lost their hitting coach.

[VObserver]

Our pitching must improve. In spite of the errors vs FSU, our defense will be ok. Other than Smiths struggles and Mannings slow start, I am pleased with our hitting. Pre FSU we were on pace for a very good year offensively. I will withhold judgement on how good for a couple of weeks, but hitting is the least of our worries.

[MarlinMan3]

I got you. If they were overrated, it's because they played in the world series last year. I think the biggest issue is, they lost their hitting coach.

Ahh. Cool. Where did they go?

[Mark Hemphill]

Ahh. Cool. Where did they go?

He is now coaching at Texas.

[RoarMan]

Ahh. Cool. Where did they go?

What Mark said. Earlywine was the head coach at Missouri for a number of years and got run off for something he should not have done.

[VObserver]

People who really follow the sport knew that our pitching was average at best this year. Alyson doesn't seem to have a clue when to pull a pitcher. This is about the 4th game this year when she has let a pitcher stay in too long. She needs to get better with going to Plan B more sooner.

Other than Hayley Hart, our hitting is really atrocious this year. Smith has really regressed. They paid her some decent NIL money (at least by UL standards) to stay and she hasn't performed. Might need to ask for some of that money back. Knox looked lost last night but so did many other Cajuns. Manning, imo, has been a bust. You can now see why Oklahoma pulled their offer to her and LSU told her that they needed her roster spot to give to someone else. I feel confident with saying that there are some P4 schools who have Hart on their radar and it is most likely that she will be playing somewhere else next year. I really can't blame her if she leaves.

In response to the part of your post that is in bold print:

Our 'atrocious' hitting has us currently has us sitting at the following National ranks after the FSU game:

HR/GM: 27
RBI/GM: 31
SLG%: 32
BA: 35
SCORING: 44
2B/GM: 66
3B/GM: 115

Note that there are 309 teams in D1 Softball and that we are in the top 21% of all those offensive categories except 3B/GM [in which we are in the top 37%]. Additionally our team OPS is 1.008 [the NCAA does not track this stat].

As to girls you named specifically:

Haley Hart is beyond outstanding.
Emily Smith is struggling.
Madyson Manning is not where we would like her to be.
Lily Knox is hitting .409 with an OPS of 1.321.

As a team, we are still on track to score 400 runs [229 in 2025], have 81 doubles [48 in 2025], 27 triples [10 in 2025] and 81 home runs [22 in 2025] in the 2026 regular season].

Please let us continue to be atrocious.

[Turbine]

Please let us continue to be atrocious.

LOL

Yes indeed.

ps I think you can spell "sarcastic" with "Cajuns atrocious"

[MarlinMan3]

LOL

Yes indeed.

ps I think you can spell "sarcastic" with "Cajuns atrocious"

Looks like it.could.sound french at least

[MarlinMan3]

Last year highest one game score was 9, for total runs seems a 23 counting in 10 percent of the total might skew the projection