It's going to be a long year. Tanner needs to come back from being a bad ad to a great coach.
When you open the season at home and lose with a division 2 opponent, it's a long season.
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How soon we forget - we lost to Francis Marion in the same year we won the National Championship - no I’m not saying we will win the NC this year but I am saying I am just as disappointed as anyone that we lost our opening game but I’m not giving up by any stretch either - long season - good team and better coach - we lost one game so there goes our perfect season - now if we lose the series - I may rethink this post but right now - lets see how the other 2 games go!
1 game does not dictate the season. I expect Kingston will find out who can man up in game situations, especially pitching and hitting with RISP.
You can't convince me we didn't throw that FM game that year. Opening of their new stadium and all. Just seemed to storybook to me.
I didn't check, but I'd wager that half the teams that played today lost. They too should consider it a long year for their respective teams.
Yeah, Tanner probably threw that game just like he must have thrown the opening SEC series sweep to Kentucky and the home losses to Wofford, and College of Charleston.
You can also throw in the 2nd SEC series loss to Florida... I'm sure Tanner just wanted to give those coaches a storybook chapter to their season.
SMH.
Tell me that one game don’t matter when we lose to Kentucky in football again next year
Did you really just compare one game in a baseball season to one game in a football season? You just lost any little bit of credibility you had.
All games matter. A loss to a VMI team doesn't bode well. Kingston talks a good game and that scares me a little bit. The talent pool simply is not very strong after the Holbrook years and if Kingston can bring in the talent, we may become a power in collegiate baseball. For sure, it won't be this year and it will take time. As for the critics of our fanbase, we are no different than any otherfanbase, we win we are loud and rowdy, we lose and we become a little introverted and quiet. Right now the men's basketball and baseball teams have a long way to go to be respected again.
Francis Marion was D2, VMI is D1. Just like The Citadel, who has beaten many great Gamecock teams
1 football = 4.16 baseball game. We have 3 more to lose to equal a football loss...unless you are talking KY.
A loss to them in football equals 25 baseball loses!!!
We shouldn’t lose to Kentucky in football or VMI in baseball. But don’t worry Monte lee will get it right in a couple years. Oh wait?!?.’
Yeah we lost the opening game by a run there's no way we can compete or make the regional now. Dang that new coach! Dang him!
Need better players. Same upperclassmen that couldn't get it done last year are still playing.
"baseball is like church, many attend, but few understand" ~ wes westrum
It will be a long season (50+ games), which is why dire (or unrealistically optimistic) predictions after game 1 are premature and ill-advised.
Especially in the opening series with a new coach leading his new team for the 1st time. It’ll take him time to realize the contenders and the pretenders, and see what he needs to recruit in the future.
I’d be willing to bet this team will get better as the season goes on.
If we lose to KY for the 5th straight time, I will personally slap William L. Muschamp.
Did any of you think that we would make it through the season undefeated? It's baseball, anybody can beat anybody one game.
what was that class ranked at the time? I don't remember having many bad recruiting classes
USCBatgirl21
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That's why we play 56 games. People really need to quit judging baseball by a football mentality.
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Which, in all fairness, if Richie knew the difference between a fresh baseball mark vs. a few days old bruise, we're out the inning and more than likely hold the lead the rest of the way.
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Just going to leave this here...
MSU swept by Southern Miss. MSU never led at any point in the 3 games, and was outscored 25-6.
LSU losing opening series to ND.
But the season is over for Gamecock Baseball? Now do y'all realize how utterly stupid y'all sound?
MSU swept by Southern Miss. MSU never led at any point in the 3 games, and was outscored 25-6.
LSU losing opening series to ND.
But the season is over for Gamecock Baseball? Now do y'all realize how utterly stupid y'all sound?
So far, we've won 2/3 of our games. If we continue winning 2/3 of our games, I have a feeling we will be OK.
Yes it’s way too early to know how the season will go. But, we also heard the same everyone loses song when Holbrook was sinking the ship.
Not a very good comparative analysis. Southern Miss has a very strong baseball program, year in & year out.
USCBatgirl21
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Actually it is. Those two teams lost their series. We did not. But the season is over according to y'all. There is a reason we play 56 games folks.
