BB G3 Final: Louisiana 2, Coastal 3

[Dad04]

We are not making a regional this year. Hell we are going to struggle to make our own conference tournament. Our standard should be a regional every year. We are in a good enough conference for the top 4 teams to make a regional each year. Top 4 in our own conference should be the standard

Our comp should be So Miss, a non flaghip state school on the Gulf coast. They in there nearly every year this century

[sportsfanatic21]

Sorry but the standard is the standard. It shouldn't get lowered for you.

I’m not lowering it. I’m stating what the actual results have been for the program.

Some seem to think that 1999-2000 and 2013-2017 are the norm. They’re not.

They’re outliers and should obviously be celebrated.

To compare every team, every year to that is misguided at best.

All of this same stuff was said all year last year, and the season ended in a regional. This one may or may not.

[ragincajun97]

I’m not lowering it. I’m stating what the actual results have been for the program.

Some seem to think that 1999-2000 and 2013-2017 are the norm. They’re not.

They’re outliers and should obviously be celebrated.

To compare every team, every year to that is misguided at best.

All of this same stuff was said all year last year, and the season ended in a regional. This one may or may not.

We haven’t won a series against a team above .500. Our pitching staff can’t going a series without having a game where they give up 10+ free bases. And every time we seem to get a good pitching performance, our offense is inept

[sportsfanatic21]

We haven’t won a series against a team above .500. Our pitching staff can’t going a series without having a game where they give up 10+ free bases. And every time we seem to get a good pitching performance, our offense is inept

All true. Yet, again, in the top 75% of the RPI teams in the country. And above .500, in the middle of the pack of the 5th best conference in the country. And coming off a season that ended in a regional, with a (probably outside) chance to finish this one there as well.

So does the team suck? Or are expectations unrealistically high?

[cajun55]

Not sure why Rock took on that last pitch. Just wow.

Story of the season. Close but no cigar. Now It’s really over.

Nothing is over, what kind of attitude is that

[Million$Mullet]

The feeling is……

….Gas.

Too many cold beers at the festival this weekend

[zeppelincajun]

One thing that is unsustainable is elite level attendance for “above average” quality baseball. Whether or not the heights of the 2013-2016 run can ever be achieved again, we built a 6,000+ seat ballpark off the fan interest spike from those years. Ignoring 2021 we are in a steady decline with our attendance numbers, and butts in seats are falling off quicker than the numbers. Our stadium was less than half full for a Friday night game against a hated conference foe and Top 10 team. If we choose to embrace the narrative that expectations are just too high, so be it. But we will have another Cajun Field situation on our hands. Feel free to tack on a few extra LBs and spread out. The Tigue is starting to feel nice and spacious these days.

[Turbine]

Yep. They hit a game tying HR with 2 outs in the 9th inning.

And then robbed a game winning HR in the bottom of the 9th.

Kudos to them. That’s great baseball from a great team.

Those were the key moments for sure.

[NewsCopy]

The Cajuns held on for 10 innings, but Coastal Carolina gets away with the series win after a Sunday morning thriller.

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[sportsfanatic21]

Sportsfanatic21 seems like the “I just hope both teams have fun” type of guy.

Ha. Far from it. I actually played at this level and know a little bit about it.

Enough to know that hitting a rocket right at someone for a DP with the bases loaded, then hitting another and being robbed of a walk off HR before taking strike 3 on a close pitch doesn’t mean a player choked, sucks, can’t get the job done, etc.

I also know that giving up 5 hits, walking one, striking out 11 and giving up 2 earned runs to this Coastal team in 11 innings isn't "terrible" pitching.

And I know that, unlike football and basketball players who have full ride scholarships to play here, these guys on the baseball team are actually paying money to go to school here and to play Cajun baseball. And that some actually turn down money to do it.

So my perspective, and emotion level, is just different than a lot of the posters here.