no surprise we dropped. wasnt that bad, considering we lost the series to an unranked auburn team. i thought ucla might be number 1 in the pollls with their road series win against a ranked oregon state. they are number one in one poll and number two in two others. in baseball america, lsu dropped from 5 to 8. BaseballAmerica.com: College: Top 25 Rankings: College Top 25: April 12 coaches poll, 6 from 4. USATODAY.com collegiate baseball is 7 from 4 University College and High School Baseball Polls - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper our rpi didnt take the hit i thought it would as we are 17 in the pseudo rpi on boyds world. NCAA Division I Baseball -- Pseudo-RPI's overall, it could be worse. now we just have to win our series, and get back on track.
i thought it was bullchit how we dropped so far earlier in the season, but i hardly ever agree with any of the polls. i watch a lot of college ball (dvr gets a workout for sure,) and if LSU is the 8th best team in the country the way they played this weekend, well that's not saying much for college baseball. give auburn credit, though. they're probably the best hitting team in the SEC next to arkansas, and LSU pitching has just been terrible. those guys need to get a lot better or we'll be about 10th-15th next week. say what you want about stranding runners, but we can't rely on scoring 8 runs a game if we want to go deep in postseason. top-to-bottom, our bullpen is reeling. i'll reserve comment on ranaudo until he's 100 percent, but everyone else is too inconsistent. i'm being hard on them because i know that they're capable of more, and LSU traditionally doesn't play to its potential until later in the season, so i still have hope.
The only thing that really upset me was when Dishon couldn't get a bunt down with runners on 1st and 2nd and nobody out. Maneiri isn't going to put up with that. But, was there ever a year where we didn't say, at some point, that this team did not have what it took?
i just addressed that in the other thread. and i agree with you. a drop of three seems about right. over all, i dont think we are clicking on all cylinders. i have read "its pitching" or "its batting". well, to me its a little bit of everything. no one part of the game seems to have come quite together yet. all phases show flashes, then the next day are stone cold. no part of the game seems consistent. yet.
you hit the nail on the head there. it's total inconsistency, but if i had to peg one area as the most critical, it's pitching. but it's starting to warm up, good things happen in BR when the weather warms up. :tigbas:
well that, and auburn really isn't a bad team (now ranked 23.) i'm telling you guys that a team that can hit the way they do has a real chance at ending the season competitively. they played south carolina last weekend and lost 2/3. they're legit, much better than kansas. what will hurt them is that good pitching will quell good hitting 9 /10. i'm worried about the tulane game this week. not afraid of tulane per se, but rather how far we'll drop down for losing to an unranked team, and how far they would move up. i'd hate for them to break the top 25 by beating LSU. they're 22-12 after dropping a series to rice this weekend (after taking 2/3 from ECU last weekend.) they also have a non-conference series with UNLV this weekend. they're close to breaking through. rick jones will have his guys ready to play. if this wasn't tulane we were talking about, i'd say pitch whomever is at the bottom of the totem-pole and rest some guys. i just hope that we don't empty the bullpen again in an otherwise meaningless midweek game.
Even the 1997 team had some serious low points, including a 28-2 loss to Bama and going 0-2 against UNO. However, this team is not as talented as any of our championship teams. With some luck, this could be a CWS team, and we still have 2 months until the Super Regional rounds.
well, i think that they're definitely talented enough. but i agree, let's have this discussion in two months.
