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WATCH: Will McCausland decides to be a 'dude' for Ole Miss

11by: Jake Thompson05/30/25JakeThompsonOn3
Syndication: The Montgomery Advertiser
Ole Miss Rebels' Will McCausland (17) pitches as Ole Miss Rebels take on LSU Tigers during the SEC baseball tournament at Hoover Met in Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday, May 24, 2025. Ole Miss Rebels defeated LSU Tigers 2-0. Mandatory credit: © Jake Crandall/ Montgomery Advertiser / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

For Will McCausland he would best describe his first season with Ole Miss as two separate ones.

The Saint Joseph transfer was a offseason portal addition last Summer and the right-hander was expected to be a major piece of the pitching staff. Things did not start out according to plan

After allowing four runs to Southern Mississippi, five runs to Arkansas and three runs to Florida McCausland and Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco had a talk.

“Started off a little bit rough and kind of, honestly, got a little kick in the butt by Coach B and the second half of the season I was a totally different story,” McCausland said.

“Basically said, ‘Do you want to be a dude or not?’ I obviously wanted to be a dude and I totally flipped the script. Went out there on the mound with more of a killer instinct than I had in the first half and was able to help my team in a way that I really wasn’t doing the first half of the year.”

The conversation happened after his outing in the doubleheader against the Gators. Since then he allowed three runs once in his last 13 outings and only a run in two appearances during this stretch to close out the season.

McCausland now enters his first postseason baseball at Swayze Field having not allowed a run in nearly a month since his appearance at Oklahoma on May 5.

“It’s going to be a lot crazier with the fans out in the outfield, the beer showers, everything like that,” McCausland said. “It’s going to be a really fun atmosphere.”

Watch Will McCausland’s full Oxford Regional Practice Interview below:

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