BrickCity Posted February 26, 2025 Share Posted February 26, 2025 What are we thinking about Hunter Hines at this point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted February 26, 2025 Author Share Posted February 26, 2025 1 hour ago, BrickCity said: What are we thinking about Hunter Hines at this point? He’s morphed into an Adam Dunn clone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrickCity Posted February 26, 2025 Share Posted February 26, 2025 2 minutes ago, Dawg83 said: He’s morphed into an Adam Dunn clone. I hopeful that he is just in a slump, but bis body language walks around like he is already defeated. I was looking for him to become a leader like Mangum and Tanner Allen, but that doesn't seem to be the case Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Former Coach Posted February 27, 2025 Share Posted February 27, 2025 On 2/26/2025 at 7:22 AM, BrickCity said: What are we thinking about Hunter Hines at this point? He needs to sit a few games and try to get it out of his head. He has had some big games for us over the years but struggled for the most part last year and has been putrid this year. Can't hit the breaking ball and almost refuses to hit the ball to the opposite field. Throw him hard away and mix in good breaking balls and he is a very easy out. Should have been PH for his last time up the other night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted March 1, 2025 Share Posted March 1, 2025 14-3 State over Rice today. Rice is obviously not the program they used to be but nonetheless it was still a good win. Need to win all three this weekend to balance out losing to USM & Troy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sportsmaniac10 Posted March 1, 2025 Share Posted March 1, 2025 Did not realize how bad Rice has gotten. They havent finished a season with a winning record since 2017. What happened to that program? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted March 1, 2025 Author Share Posted March 1, 2025 11 hours ago, sportsmaniac10 said: Did not realize how bad Rice has gotten. They havent finished a season with a winning record since 2017. What happened to that program? Wayne Graham was the entire program. 100% of the NCAAT appearances in their history came under one coach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted March 1, 2025 Share Posted March 1, 2025 He was a great coach and they won a NC under his tutelage. And were consistently a good regional bet year in and year out. One of the greatest comebacks ever for State came in the College Station Regional in 1998. State was facing elimination and was down 11-0 to Rice. Would have been easy to fold but the team battled back to win 15-14. Eventually went on to win the Regional and go to the CWS. I would suspect that game stuck in Coach Graham’s craw for a while. I mean what are the chances of a really good team blowing an 11-0 in baseball? Small, smaller and almost zero. Ironically, that is the only game we had played against Rice before yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted March 2, 2025 Share Posted March 2, 2025 Awful weekend for State baseball. Losing two out of three gives us four OOC losses already. Hosting a Regional is just about out of the picture already. Even making a Regional may be a stretch at this point. Unless things turn North in a fast hurry. USM Tuesday is a must win. Period. Like I mentioned in the basketball thread. Playing a strong schedule is great but you still have to win games. Pressure is on to WIN. And win the next game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted March 3, 2025 Author Share Posted March 3, 2025 Lemonis post-2021 has major Polk 2000’s vibes. Maybe they get going and are a Regional team but the program feels very much stuck in neutral. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebmus Posted March 3, 2025 Share Posted March 3, 2025 Ole Miss sweeps Wright State. Conference play will be here soon enough and we'll find out what kind of team OM actually has then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David44 Posted March 3, 2025 Share Posted March 3, 2025 USM wins game 2 an 3 @ TCU to win the series an salvage a 2 an 2 week. Considering that both losses were on the road against top 25 teams, they should stay ranked #22. Bunch of doubles today an 5 HR last 2 days. They bludgeoned TCU pitching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted March 6, 2025 Share Posted March 6, 2025 Hard to figure out this State team. Score zero runs against USM two weeks ago. Tonight score three TD’s alas missed all the XP’s though. USM scratched for a FG in both games and came out 1-1. Not bad for them at all. Have no clue about State. But glad for the win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancho Posted March 6, 2025 Share Posted March 6, 2025 the difference was who pitched for usm in each game, or who didn't pitch. usm's mid week arms didn't fare well last week in oxford either. all this proved is that state can hit borderline juco pitching and there won't be any of that in the SEC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Former Coach Posted March 6, 2025 Share Posted March 6, 2025 Baseball is a long season. A lot of it is like they say in MLB, you ae going to win and lose 50 games no matter what you do, it's what you do in the other 62. Same here, You are most likely going to win 10-12 and lose 10-12, but what do you do in the other 15. Right now when State gets good pitching they win. Got to find two more guys for Saturday and Sunday. I don't think it's Ligon and Simmons are the answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancho Posted March 6, 2025 Share Posted March 6, 2025 they are starting Ligon on Sunday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rebmus Posted March 10, 2025 Share Posted March 10, 2025 State and Ole Miss swept again this weekend. Conference play starts next weekend, we'll find out a lot more about our teams over the next 4-5 weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted March 10, 2025 Author Share Posted March 10, 2025 Feels like OM off to a better than expected start. We will see on State, they’ve played a pretty bad schedule so far and are 1-4 against teams with a pulse. But they did have a very good week this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted March 11, 2025 Share Posted March 11, 2025 Well I did not want to create a new topic but State’s softball team started conference play with a three game sweep over Auburn. So a good start for the Diamond Lady Dogs. Ole Miss with a solid 2 of a 3 over R-Can-Saw. A good weekend for our Women teams. And again with OK now in the fold, the SEC is loaded in softball just like baseball and basketball. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancho Posted March 15, 2025 Share Posted March 15, 2025 bianco beats the hogs in game 1. Lemo looks questionable in a loss to texas in game 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted March 15, 2025 Share Posted March 15, 2025 Why not pitch Simmons at the start of the 7th inning and let him finish it out? Certainly a competitive game and I like our fight in the 9th inning but it should have never come to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pancho Posted March 16, 2025 Share Posted March 16, 2025 lemo is known for over using a good start by a pitcher and that bit him friday nite. I went and witnessed the hogs demolish bianco last nite too and boy did they look noncompetitive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg83 Posted March 16, 2025 Author Share Posted March 16, 2025 Doubleheader in Starkville today, feels like a potentially significant one for State’s season, even though it’s early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted March 16, 2025 Share Posted March 16, 2025 Give credit where credit is due. Texas with two big hits in the 7th and the left fielder saved the game with a great catch in the bottom of the 7th. Otherwise State played a solid game today. Disappointing loss but not disappointed in our players. They played well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulldogs4 Posted March 16, 2025 Share Posted March 16, 2025 State women with a big 4-3 win over Alabama in softball on the road to win 2 of 3 over the Tidewomen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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