Unbelievable....

[colodawg]

As a long time season ticket holder in the "big three", a Bulldog Club member, and a Foundation member before retiring to Colorado I have such great memories of MSU athletics. For the first time this year I caught the weekend series on Direct TV and I cannot believe the depths to which MSU baseball has fallen! I have been reading with interest about how "bad" things were, but I could not believe my eyes last night. It was depressing to look at the scenes of LFL and empty bleachers and only about four rows of chairbacks occupied.

My wife walked through on the way to another TV, caught about 1/2 inning, and said, "when are they getting a new coach?" My reply, "Honey, we just got one."

Is there any hope? When will we go to Hoover again? When will we be proud again? When will we fill the Dude again?

Excuse my rant. I am just so grateful I didn't tell any of my friends to tune in to watch my team! Embarrassing!

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[JxnDawg39211]

the teamsof the late 70's through the early 90's should be embarrassed at what our program has become. It truly is shocking the depths at which our program has fallen. I'm speechless.

 

[BriantheDawg]

There have been torrential downpours and tornadoes all over Arkansas, MS & TN all weekend. It's really some of the craziest weather I've ever seen here in Nashville. Folks aren't going to travel in this stuff, especially when a game very well could be cancelled. Second, our season basically ended last weekend with the sweep in Tuscaloosa so our team has nothing to play for now....not that they'd actually give a **** anyways if there was something still on the line. Third, who wants to see your team get swept by its rival on your home field?

We had over 11K for the Saturday game against UT during SBW, so that shows the fans are still willing to support this cluster of a baseball program, especially when a trip to Hoover is still within reach and there's decent weather. But when you continually play unsound baseball and look like a damn buddy ball team that simply doesn't care if you win or lose, coupled with bad weather - attendance is going to fall and fall hard. Cohen is doing this his way. He essentially has one more year to get us moving in the right direction. If he can't make Hoover in year 3 at Mississippi State, then he simply needs to be gone. No more excuses.

 

[AssEndDawg]

if you were in the mid-South this weekend travel was just not a good idea. I normally would have been in Starkville for the games but we had about 10 Tornado warnings and consistent flash-flood warnings all weekend. This has been in the forecast all week so I don't think there were a lot of people traveling in the West Tennessee / North Mississippi areas. Super Bulldog weekend was packed and crowds have been pretty good all year.

As a devoted State fan perhaps you shouldn't make assumptions about our program based on a few games watched on TV and played during some of the worst storms in modern times.

 

[Seinfeld]

I am a very casual baseball fan and whether the team is pitiful or spectacular, I won't see more than about 4-5 games per year. Last night was the first time this season that I've actually sat down to watch an MSU baseball game on tv, and it was unbelievable. I turn it on to see the game tied at 7-7, and the bases loaded for Ole Miss. Thinking that things could get interesting, I sat down to watch the rest of the game.

Within 5 minutes, I see the following...
1) Three(maybe four) pitching changes in the same half of an inning
2) While trying to turn a double play, our pitcher runs to cover first but can't figure out where 1st base is.
3) Butler bobbles a bouncing grounder and then completely blacks out while an Ole Miss runner crosses the plate.
4) Shortly after, rather than making a routine 3rd out toss to 1st base, Butler rifles one into the dirt at 2nd base. Honestly, I'm not sure he even gets the out if the 2nd baseman catches it.
5) This one spanned over the next few innings, but I saw at least three swings at balls that were 2 feet or more off the plate. In fact, Butler swung at inside pitch that I swear would have hit him in the thigh if he had stayed still. It was so far inside that he whiffed on it and the ball proceeded to hit him on the back foot as it sunk into the dirt. I don't have any issue with aggressive bats, but jesus. Not to mention that while these kids were out there wildly swinging away, I believe we ended three of the last four innings with guys looking at 3rd strikes. Maybe not, but it sure seemed like it.

Anyway, I won't comment on the Cohen situation because I honestly don't feel like I pay enough attention to really have a say in the matter, but that was some of the worst MSU baseball I think I've ever seen. I don't know where Peter Gammons or Joe Morgan would even start with this team.

 

[BriantheDawg]

for the last 2 years. I'm hoping and praying Cohen turns this ship around, but I've honestly never seen a more fundamentally unsound baseball team than what he's shown us these last 2 years. Both sides of the ball, too. Can't field. Can't hit. Swing at balls, take 3rd strikes. Can't run the bases. Can't make plays when the game is on the line. I really never thought I'd see the day when it was this bad. It's not even frustrating to me anymore either. It's simply just sad.

 

[catvet]

and take a realistic look at what is going on. In Polk's last season, he had a losing record. Cohen came in without his own recruiting class and coached the team to a losing record as well. We were last in the conference in pitching and had to have immediate pitching help. He has had only one class which was highly rated--I won't get into the argument that it was a top 10 class- which is what the experts said. He brought is a group of stop gap Juco's to help out and only a couple of them have panned out. The bulk of our pitching is Freshmen. This year's recruiting class which again will be very highly rated has a bunch of position players that will replace most of what we have on the field now. Too many guys have made this a personal thing against Cohen who is doing a great job recruiting and will get this turned around, but again has only one year of his recruits on campus. He made two mistakes that I can tell: 1. not cutting most of Polk's players like Paul Maneri did when he took over at LSU and 2. brought in too many Jucos that didn't pan out. If you don't want to support the team, then don't. If all you wan't to do is ***** at Cohen, go ahead. Alot of you guys act like the program went to hell when Cohen took over when instead, you really need to look at where the team was at under the second reign of Polk. Take a look at the records and count the number of times we won the conference, our division or had a winning record in the SEC. If you are so blind to see that during that time, we allowed the rest of the league to pass us by and even in our own state fall behind Ole Miss and Southern, then the problem is you. Whoever the coach was that had to come in had a major rebuilding project ahead and it will take a couple of more years to get us back to where we want to be.

 

[RocketCityDawg]

In both meanings of that expression.

 

[Mstate]

even the announcers on tv said this is the quietest its been at dudy noble they have ever seen. even with all the bad weather i am extremely embarrassed by the attendance. i was there and then re watched the game on dvr when i got home