D1Baseball Weekly Chat: March 17 • D1Baseball
Another week of college baseball action is in the books and our Kendall Rogers and Joe Healy answer your burning questions.
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(I don't see this ever happening
)Justin douglas: Regarding Mississippi state. Do you think southern miss head coach Christian Ostrander is the legitament front runner if there season continues down this path.
Kendall Rogers: Has there ever been a coach more prematurely fired than Chris Lemonis? I get it, tough weekend. But let the season play out. Remember when last season, everyone wanted Lemonis gone in early March, and MSU ended up having a pretty good year? This team has that ability, too. All there of those Texas games could’ve gone either way. Do I think MSU is a finished product right now? Not at all. Do I think they look like a team totally lost? Not at all. They don’t look like A&M, for instance.
Andrew: If you had to pick one of Coastal, Troy, Southern Miss right now to host a regional, what’s the pick? SBC will be a three horse race this season.
Kendall Rogers: I would probably lean Southern Miss at this point. The Golden Eagles have enough veteran pieces offensively, and they certainly have the deeper and better overall pitching staff of those three clubs.
Andrew: Should we stick a fork in the Cajuns? Are they done? Toughest part of the schedule is behind them, but I just don’t think they did enough out of conference. Getting Chase Morgan back this week will obviously help, but he’s only one guy that contributes for one game a week.
Joe Healy: I would quite go so far as to say they need a fork stuck in them, but they’re very, very quickly running out of time. They’ve played a very tough schedule that set them up to be an at-large team, but they just haven’t won enough games against those good teams, especially now that the best series win (vs. Nebraska) doesn’t look as good as it did at the time. The Sun Belt feels very top-heavy, so the Cajuns really have to avoid dropping many more SBC series from this point forward. The goal should be to get to that USM series in May with a chance for a series win to put them in the postseason conversation or better.
(I think Coastal even on road takes the series here.)
Vince: Who do you think comes out on top in a huge Sun Belt series this weekend… Coastal or Troy? Coastal a little more tested to this point?
Kendall Rogers: Vince — I think I probably lean Troy at home in this one. Both teams are pretty offensive. Basically, this is a series where I think the home team wins.
