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Interested to see what the pitching staff looks like. I saw the Delta State transfer was tabbed the Saturday starter.
Looks like a pretty good class. I counted 6 JUCOs. That plus a couple transfers and maybe we'll show some real improvement next season.
What's the deal with Myles Brennan?
He's an injury prone career backup. Getting excited over a high school 4-star that transfers from a P5 school is pointless. There's a reason these guys transfer to G5 schools: they just aren't as good as their recruiting rankings predicted.
With that said, I'd love to have him.
Going by average star rating we’re 12th in CUSA
Doesn't really matter as most of these guys will never play meaningful minutes in a CUSA game. Unfortunately, it also looks to in the bottom half of the Sunbelt average rankings.
A week ago Friday, Southern Illinois defeated Alcorn State by THREE points.
Yesterday, Southern Illinois beat us by TWENTY FIVE!!!
We aren’t even SWAC level at this point.
Pathetic & embarrassing
As a fan of college sports I don’t judge my enjoyment or what “matters” on national perception or how much money it generates.
Nor do I, but as a Southern Miss alum I feel like all programs represent my alma mater and I'd prefer to at least be respectable in both of major sports.
Going to the college World Series is a lifetime badge of honor for USM that many P5 money programs have yet to achieve.
Many? Try SEVEN. Yes, only 7 total P5 baseball programs have yet to make a trip to the CWS.
Your complete list of P5 programs that have never made the CWS (BigTen is only conf with multiple teams):
SEC: Kentucky
Big12: Kansas State
Pac12: ALL teams have played in the CWS (Colorado doesn't play baseball)
ACC: Pitt (Syracuse doesn't play baseball)
Big Ten: Maryland, Illinois, Northwestern, Purdue
You also have a couple P5 schools (Wisconsin & Iowa State) that have made the CWS but no longer even field teams. Out of the 299 D1 baseball programs, 117 have made the CWS (roughly 40%).
We have never and will never be a basketball school
I agree with that completely. I'm not saying we should strive to become a basketball school. I'm just saying we at least need to be somewhat competitive on the D1 level. There are 350 D1 basketball programs. We're probably in the bottom 100, maybe bottom 75. That's just absolutely embarrassing. We've had 1 winning year in the past 6 seasons and lets be honest, we dont exactly play a tough schedule. We should at minimum make a legitimate attempt and invest legitimate resources in order to elevate our program to mediocre. By that, I just mean .500 level or better. Continually finishing at the bottom of 1 bid leagues (CUSA or Sunbelt) can't be the best we can do.
There are only 2 sports that matter in the eyes of college athletics: Football & Men's Basketball.
I love baseball as much as anyone, but that does very little for any school in terms national perception. The 2 money making sports in college athletics are Football & Men's Basketball and we are absolutely abysmal in basketball. We have terrible facilities that leads to poor recruiting that results in awful teams with virtually no fan support or financial revenue. I have confidence we'll get back to respectability in football but until we do something about basketball, our athletic department will continue its years long slide down the national pecking order.
If the administration doesn't urgently address ways to improve basketball, then the future is dark for Southern Miss athletics.
We have the worst scoring offense in ALL of FBS.
Good old number 130:
https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs … team/27/p3
Inherited roster and injuries be damned, Will Hall deserves more criticism than he is getting!
I did expect to see an improving product from week to week.
I think that's reasonable and most people would have been fine with that. But I don't think we've seen any sort of improvement. If anything, we've regressed
Yeah I think the answer's right in front of us. This team is worse than 2012.
I dont even think this is debatable at this point. 2021 is the worst team in Southern Miss history, yet the vast majority of the fanbase is giving Will Hall a complete pass on this debacle. This literally might be the worst team in all of FBS football.
Judy has extended invites to several new teams (NMSU, Liberty, and a couple FCS schools), but for some insane reason CUSA is wanting a $2 million dollar entry fee from each school and supposedly that's a sticking point. Thus none of those schools have accepted the invite yet. I can't imagine how on Earth Judy believes she has any leverage to demand entry fees. If they say no, the conference just folds.
Let just hope our admins dont screw up the move to the Sunbelt because if staying in what's left of the CUSA becomes our only option then I'd just assume drop down to FCS.
TTT and all
The 2012 team would beat this year's team by double digits.
Going 1-11 vs this shit schedule would be an equally bad accomplishment as the 2012 team going 0-12 against their schedule. The 2012 schedule was actually pretty tough. We're getting manhandled by Sunbelt teams and CUSA bottom feeders.
I cant see this team winning anymore games. They're too damned soft.
I doubt strongly that Hall would get fired for going 1-11, but he should be.
2012-Southern Mississippi (CUSA)
9/1 @ Nebraska (10-4) L 20 49
9/15 vs. *East Carolina (8-5) L 14 24
9/22 @ Western Kentucky (7-6) L 17 42
9/29 vs. Louisville (11-2) L 17 21
10/6 vs. Boise State (11-2) L 14 40
10/13 @ *Central Florida (10-4) L 31 38
10/20 vs. *Marshall (5-7) L 24 59
10/27 @ *Rice (7-6) L 17 44
11/3 vs. *Alabama-Birmingham (3-9) L 19 27
11/10 @ *Southern Methodist (7-6) L 6 34
11/17 vs. *Texas-El Paso (3-9) L 33 34
11/24 @ *Memphis (4-8) L 24 42
Seems as if this is the end of CUSA (Good riddance). The AAC will take 3 or 4 CUSA teams. A couple others will defect to the Sunbelt, UTEP will try to get in the MWC and those that remain will do so because they literally have no other options.
yep 26,000 for memphis yet many were butt hurt because we didn't go to dallas where we would have had 35,000 fans there.....smh
Forget the number of fans. Beating a mediocre Penn State team is 10x better than beating a mediocre Nevada team. People still talk about the beating a mediocre Pitt team in the Liberty Bowl as if it were something magical.
FYI, Houston got the pleasure of kicking the shit out of Penn State in Dallas that year. It was a dumb decision then and it’s a dumb decision in hindsight.
Long rebuilding process
We wont ever get back to what we once were, so I don't know if "rebuilding" is an accurate term. The landscape of college football has changed drastically in the past 20 years and we are one of many teams affected. Some were affected positively. Some negatively. Some were small schools. Some were larger schools.
Those hurt:
Tennessee
Nebraska
Southern Miss
Miami
etc, etc, etc
Those helped:
Oregon
UCF
Louisville
Boise State
etc, etc, etc
Our history is just that: history. The "golden era" of Southern Miss football has passed. Now with that said, in no way is getting bludgeoned by Troy at The Rock acceptable. We can be a better program than what we have shown in recent years, but we won't every be the program we were prior to this modern era (tv contracts, recruiting services, conference realignments, etc) of college football.
We need to lose the mindset of "rebuilding" and instead focus on fielding a consistently respectable G5 team.
Bleacher Eagle wrote:To The Top!
Hard to imagine a greater irony.
Should have written: To The Top?
Central Florida of the Big12 playing at Louisville of the ACC.
Meanwhile, we’re double digit underdogs in our game tomorrow night.
At home.
To Troy.
A Sunbelt team.
The Sunbelt: a conference we are hoping to join IF we can afford it.
To The Top!
I think we're about to see the end of CUSA.
If the American loses 3 teams, they're gonna fill it with 3 CUSA team.
At that point, CUSA wouldnt be a good enough draw to lure in Sunbelt teams. In fact, I see the opposite being more likely. So, lose a few teams to the AAC, then lose a few more to the Sunbelt.... adios CUSA.
Geez, Tulane got Oklahoma at home? WTF.
New Orleans. Opposing fanbases love that type of roadtrip. Easy win in a fun, inexpensive place to visit.