Your team is playing in the national championship. If we were to some how lose this, only one other team is going to be able to talk **** to you. When are you ever going to run into a UCLA fan that cares about college baseball that will blow it back into your face about how they beat you for the national championship. Quit worrying and have fun like you never had before.
For everyone who is "nervous", think about this..
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Here's an even better thought. .............................................................................
While nothing in life is ever a given, there really is no good reason to believe this is the only shot at one of these we will ever have. I have said repeatedly, baseball is the one and only sport where we have the infrastructure, the facilities, the fan support, the coaching ability and the access to talent to CONSISTENTLY compete for a national title. I'm going into this thing believing that if we fall short this time, we will have many more opportunities to collect CWS hardware.
[/ignoring Flarda State comparisons, so F off].
While nothing in life is ever a given, there really is no good reason to believe this is the only shot at one of these we will ever have. I have said repeatedly, baseball is the one and only sport where we have the infrastructure, the facilities, the fan support, the coaching ability and the access to talent to CONSISTENTLY compete for a national title. I'm going into this thing believing that if we fall short this time, we will have many more opportunities to collect CWS hardware.
[/ignoring Flarda State comparisons, so F off].
I think I can do one better...
I have consistently compared building our football team to Carolina where Spurrier struggled to build depth but now is consistently winning 10-11 games, which was unheard until the baseball team won a National Championship back to back and the fanbase and momentum around the state and athletics program had something to do with that.
Well our baseball has a chance to win a national championship, maybe in 1 to 2 more years we will see the same result Carolina is seeing now in football! I think this only helps to prove to the kids in the state if you stay together and go to 1 school, you can compete and you can be relevant in football or anything.
I have consistently compared building our football team to Carolina where Spurrier struggled to build depth but now is consistently winning 10-11 games, which was unheard until the baseball team won a National Championship back to back and the fanbase and momentum around the state and athletics program had something to do with that.
Well our baseball has a chance to win a national championship, maybe in 1 to 2 more years we will see the same result Carolina is seeing now in football! I think this only helps to prove to the kids in the state if you stay together and go to 1 school, you can compete and you can be relevant in football or anything.
I don't disagree, but don't agree fully. Its going to be harder (not impossible) to build depth in a sport in a state that doesn't allow scholly's other than fractional/partial ones. We seem to have the other major pieces in place, i.e. coach, fan support, facilities (for the most part but stadium could use some rehab). We could use more depth now (I cringe when Frost is on the field about to throw to 1st base, when we pinch/DH Armstrong or Norris,) BUT, even w/ those obstacles we are in the Champ. Series of the NCAA!
B-b-b-but OM won the series against us, that makes them better than us right?***
Agree. I never thought we could get to this position. Just getting here has elevated the program and shown that great things are possible with MSU baseball.
Plus, R Mithell, Holder, Bracewell, Gentry and Cox, that's the best bullpen in the SEC next year already. If Lindgren and Woodruff tap into their potential, that might be the best all around staff in the SEC.
Plus, R Mithell, Holder, Bracewell, Gentry and Cox, that's the best bullpen in the SEC next year already. If Lindgren and Woodruff tap into their potential, that might be the best all around staff in the SEC.
Didn't the Bears (known as the Rebels then) have a couple FB national championships back around 1960?
If we win just wait for them to print the bumper stickers "2013 Baseball Series: Ole Miss 2, National Champions 1"
Depends on who you ask. Neither the AP or UPI has ever voted them national champions. Back then there was no post-bowl poll and bowls were considered more like exhibition games and a reward for a great season than as post-season games that really mattered.