When Southwestern La. plays in Ruston, I hope the PA announcer and Nitz refer to them as Louisiana @ Lafayette or just Lafayette. That will cause a 100 page thread on RP about how disrespectful we are of not referencing them by their "preferred name." Of course, they will fail to mention how disrespectful they are of other schools, especially ULM, and the law. We certainly need to win that game.
Your Bulldogs are a very much improved team over the last couple of years and had a very big win in the Cajuns house last week. But don't get carried away just yet thinking you are on the verge of taking over the State! Yes, Tech is indeed 4 - 2 against the Cajuns in the last 6 meetings. But the Cajuns are 6 - 4 against the Bulldogs in the last 10 meetings. Not to mention, the Cajuns have 5 Regional and 2 Super Regional appearances since 2010 to just 1 Regional for the team located in Ruston. Nice to see your school is trying to figure out the game of baseball. However, I'd like to refer you to the latest result between our two teams on Tuesday evening in Ruston to put things back in proper perspective. Good luck in the remainder of your season.
It's time for this to become a weekend series.
Dave, in fairness, we are 4-2 since making a coaching change in 2015 and putting a little more money in the budget. That's really a good starting point.
Also, I don't think anyone is saying we're on the verge of "taking over the state" as you put it. You have the better program right now. But we'd like to see where we are after 5 to 7 years of increased budgets and more of a focus on the sport. We're really in year 3 of that.
This was the first time since the 1980s that our program has been ranked and yours has not. And the fact we've won as many games in June as you have over the past 2 seasons is a good sign for our program. We're trying to sustain that.
Last edited by The Historian; 04-28-2018 at 08:28 AM.