3,516 in attendance last night to watch us bash Clemson 17-2 for the second time this season.

I dream of JMU being back as a solid baseball program. *sigh*

(05-15-2022 05:10 PM)EigenEagle Wrote:  Since Texas State would have to get swept by Georgia State to not win the regular-season, let me go ahead and congratulate them. Maybe some day we'll have a coach who can get us over the hump and not just keep doing tease after tease. 20+ years at GS and never moved on to a P5 job...

Stop. Just stop.

First of all, Georgia Southern is going to be a regional team for the first time since joining the Sun Belt. And, they don't have to win the tournament, or even the regular season for it to happen.

Georgia Southern, should they win the tournament, could HOST a regional. Think about that for a minute. Even if they don't, they are good enough to win a regional.

About the P5 job. Tony Robichaux was one of the most respected baseball coaches in America. He won over 1100 games and took his team to Omaha. He didn't coach in the P5, yet he's in the College Baseball Hall of Fame. Did you stop to consider maybe Rodney is at GS because he WANTS to be there?

You aren't being fair. Not with what they've accomplished this season. GS is having one helluva year that most would take in a heartbeat.

(05-18-2022 09:29 PM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  

(05-15-2022 05:10 PM)EigenEagle Wrote:  Since Texas State would have to get swept by Georgia State to not win the regular-season, let me go ahead and congratulate them. Maybe some day we'll have a coach who can get us over the hump and not just keep doing tease after tease. 20+ years at GS and never moved on to a P5 job...

Stop. Just stop.

First of all, Georgia Southern is going to be a regional team for the first time since joining the Sun Belt. And, they don't have to win the tournament, or even the regular season for it to happen.

Georgia Southern, should they win the tournament, could HOST a regional. Think about that for a minute. Even if they don't, they are good enough to win a regional.

About the P5 job. Tony Robichaux was one of the most respected baseball coaches in America. He won over 1100 games and took his team to Omaha. He didn't coach in the P5, yet he's in the College Baseball Hall of Fame. Did you stop to consider maybe Rodney is at GS because he WANTS to be there?

You aren't being fair. Not with what they've accomplished this season. GS is having one helluva year that most would take in a heartbeat.

You're fighting a losing battle. For about 20 percent of our fans, Hennon could present them a duffel bag with a million dollars in it and they'd complain that it wasn't a briefcase.

Has Hennon maybe fallen short with some of his teams? Sure. But who hasn't in 20+ seasons.

It's not Hennon's fault that UL and Coastal were objectively a little bit better in the years they beat GS in the title game. It's not Hennon's fault that our stud closer was far less than 100 percent and couldn't finish vs. USA, only to see our best starter blow a 9th inning lead when he tried to clinch it. It's not Hennon's fault that a rain delay in 2012 seemed to erase our collective minds in terms of fielding and throwing when we were about 12 solid innings away from a super regional.

You can knock him for not bringing in the best talent despite being in the middle of the biggest prep baseball hotbed in the country. You can knock him for a few highly touted players leaving after a year.

But the guy is a solid coach. With maybe one or two exceptions since the turn of the century, nobody has ever looked at GS Baseball and penciled in easy wins.

Finally stAte is taking a step. No no...Raffo is still there. No no nothing about upgrading where we play. No no...same assistants. But the have got rid of the baseball operations guy who most seem to think was an intern and hire a guy from Mississippi St. That's where Raffo came from. So our new AD from Bama is coming into a place that has a total failure of a program and we fire the intern. Lol...we gonna shred you guys next year!!!

(05-19-2022 06:32 AM)CC Eagle Wrote:  

(05-18-2022 09:29 PM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  

(05-15-2022 05:10 PM)EigenEagle Wrote:  Since Texas State would have to get swept by Georgia State to not win the regular-season, let me go ahead and congratulate them. Maybe some day we'll have a coach who can get us over the hump and not just keep doing tease after tease. 20+ years at GS and never moved on to a P5 job...

Stop. Just stop.

First of all, Georgia Southern is going to be a regional team for the first time since joining the Sun Belt. And, they don't have to win the tournament, or even the regular season for it to happen.

Georgia Southern, should they win the tournament, could HOST a regional. Think about that for a minute. Even if they don't, they are good enough to win a regional.

About the P5 job. Tony Robichaux was one of the most respected baseball coaches in America. He won over 1100 games and took his team to Omaha. He didn't coach in the P5, yet he's in the College Baseball Hall of Fame. Did you stop to consider maybe Rodney is at GS because he WANTS to be there?

You aren't being fair. Not with what they've accomplished this season. GS is having one helluva year that most would take in a heartbeat.

You're fighting a losing battle. For about 20 percent of our fans, Hennon could present them a duffel bag with a million dollars in it and they'd complain that it wasn't a briefcase.

Has Hennon maybe fallen short with some of his teams? Sure. But who hasn't in 20+ seasons.

It's not Hennon's fault that UL and Coastal were objectively a little bit better in the years they beat GS in the title game. It's not Hennon's fault that our stud closer was far less than 100 percent and couldn't finish vs. USA, only to see our best starter blow a 9th inning lead when he tried to clinch it. It's not Hennon's fault that a rain delay in 2012 seemed to erase our collective minds in terms of fielding and throwing when we were about 12 solid innings away from a super regional.

You can knock him for not bringing in the best talent despite being in the middle of the biggest prep baseball hotbed in the country. You can knock him for a few highly touted players leaving after a year.

But the guy is a solid coach. With maybe one or two exceptions since the turn of the century, nobody has ever looked at GS Baseball and penciled in easy wins.

How are you going to spin this latest one?

Spin the fact that he coached a team to a regional host…? Gosh I don’t know.

Try having a coach who resigned after 15 season with the last one knocking his career record below .500. One regular season championship, one tourney championship and one division championship are in that mix. I’d trade you ungrateful fans in a heartbeat.