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Looking Ahead

I know the dust hasn't settled on the 2016 season but I really think that 2017 can be even better. Here's what I see for a startling line-up:

2017 Southern Miss Line-up


CF – Mason Irby

SS – Tracey Hadley

RF – Dylan Burdeaux

1B – Taylor Braley

LF – Hunter Slater

3B – Daniel Keating

C – Cole Donaldson

DH – TBA

2B – Storme Cooper


LHP – Kirk McCarty

RHP – Walker Powell

RHP – Hayden Roberts


LHP – Stevie Powers

RHP – Calder Mikel


RHP – Nick Sandlin

Any update

I am relieved this baseball season is over. I finally had to quit listening to games. It felt like I was on a roller coaster. This team gave it their all and that's all you can ask for. Now, on to football. Can we get any updates on summer training. Anything will do at this point. TTT

Tourney format

I'm sure I'll be called idiot, sore loser - or both. But the format for the baseball tourney always bothered me. If you lose a game.....you are behind the 8 ball moreso than in any other format I know of. Your team is set up all season to have 3 front line starters pitching once a week. But if you lose in the tourney, you are faced with playing a series of elimination games with little time between games to rest pitchers (like playing two in one day maybe). Add to this the way they choose hosts...if the host (almost always the 1 seed) wins its first game (typically against the 4 seed)....they have a HUGE advantage.

I know...USM has demonstrated that the non-host can win (see 2009)....and that the host can lose (we lost when we hosted....as a 2 seed). (Of course, Old Mess just showed how a 1 seed can lose at home!)

While the odds can be beaten....it seems like they are stacked against the non-hosts, lower seeds more than in any other tournament format. I think this should be changed.
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Stipend being paid to USM athletes?????

been waiting for nearly a year now to hear what we are paying and to who. Also when we will start paying the stipend.
In other the news, the final numbers on the new TV deal don't appear to be as bad as some predicted. Looks like 14 teams will split 9 mil. a year. Roughly 650K per team. Had been hearing some projections as low as 350K per team. Old contract was 1 mil a year per team. considering the beating cable TV is presently taking with other and better viewing options, this contract could have come out much worse. When the other G5 conferences have to renegotiate their deals I predict ours won't look so bad.

Trip To Tallahassee For Region Games.

Only a five hour drive. Thursday night met several of the players, their parents, and a few of their girlfriends out and about in a restaurant and on the street near the hotel. Found four watering holes that would be perfect for Hattiesburg and the college scene. Parking was no problem at Dick Howser Stadium. Getting out after Fla. State and USM game was tough. Only one way in and one way out and no policemen directing traffic. But only for that game. This year Fla State sold beer at the concession stand for the first time. But the NCAA nixed it for the tournament. But the parking lot was across the street from the stadium and several coolers of adult beverages were in several cars and visited during the rain delay. Saw a number of members of the Big Gold Nation in attendance. Don't know if the rain delay hurt us or not. It rained on the South Ala side also. Umpiring was not the best I've seen. Looked like the strike zone was too small. But the umpire didn't get four hits in one inning and score 6 runs. All in all had a good time. Look forward to next year.

Hit and run question

A few years ago, someone on this site posted a detailed study on when to attempt a hit and run (and when not to).

I would like to see that again or at least a discussion such as:

Good time to use a hit and run is when the pitcher is needing to throw a strike, your batter is in a slump, and you want to force him to swing.

When not to is if your batter is not a contact hitter. Our only real contact hitters this year were Sandlin, Dawson, and Slater. Lynch rarely struck out, so he would also be considered a contact hitter.
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