I'm stoked they're gone regardless of the conference loyalty conversation… I'd actually love for as many SEC teams to lose out to make our path easier. SEC teams are just built differently and lsu was one of the hottest teams in the country going into their regional. Regardless of wins/losses, there's just no other conference with the talent accumulation of the SEC, so each remaining one has a chance to get on a hot streak and be a serious threat (more so than teams from other conferences IMO).

Having married a Duke grad, it is hard to pull for UNC. However, LSU always seems to have our number. We, on the other hand, seem to have UNC's number. See, e.g., Williams, Robert, Windmill Dunk; Achane, De'Von, House Call and Orange Bowl MVP.

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Having married a Duke grad, it is hard to pull for UNC. However, LSU always seems to have our number. We, on the other hand, seem to have UNC's number. See, e.g., Williams, Robert, Windmill Dunk; Achane, De'Von, House Call and Orange Bowl MVP.

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How does LSU have our number? I think we are basically even if not exactly even with them in baseball since we joined the conference (also they have never swept us and we have never swept them)

And we are 3-3 against them in Football ever since moving in from Sumlin. And basketball seems to be pretty even with them too but I haven't actually gone to look at the numbers

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Having married a Duke grad, it is hard to pull for UNC. However, LSU always seems to have our number. We, on the other hand, seem to have UNC's number. See, e.g., Williams, Robert, Windmill Dunk; Achane, De'Von, House Call and Orange Bowl MVP.

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Don't forget Weaver, Mark, 2024 Women's NCAA Tennis Sweet 16, Cookie, 1993 NCAA Baseball Regional and Smith, Dean, 1980 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

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Frank Grimes said:

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Having married a Duke grad, it is hard to pull for UNC. However, LSU always seems to have our number. We, on the other hand, seem to have UNC's number. See, e.g., Williams, Robert, Windmill Dunk; Achane, De'Von, House Call and Orange Bowl MVP.

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How does LSU have our number? I think we are basically even if not exactly even with them in baseball since we joined the conference (also they have never swept us and we have never swept them)

And we are 3-3 against them in Football ever since moving in from Sumlin. And basketball seems to be pretty even with them too but I haven't actually gone to look at the numbers

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Knocked us out in of the baseball tournament in 1989 when we were the better team. Knocked us out of the basketball tournament several years back on a last second 3-pointer when we were the better team. They often beat us in football when we are the better team. I am sure there are plenty of other examples.

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Frank Grimes said:

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Having married a Duke grad, it is hard to pull for UNC. However, LSU always seems to have our number. We, on the other hand, seem to have UNC's number. See, e.g., Williams, Robert, Windmill Dunk; Achane, De'Von, House Call and Orange Bowl MVP.

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Don't forget Weaver, Mark, 2024 Women's NCAA Tennis Sweet 16, Cookie, 1993 NCAA Baseball Regional and Smith, Dean, 1980 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

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Nice! I was just learning about basketball in 1980 (and living in NC).

I've never gotten over 1989.

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Having married a Duke grad, it is hard to pull for UNC. However, LSU always seems to have our number. We, on the other hand, seem to have UNC's number. See, e.g., Williams, Robert, Windmill Dunk; Achane, De'Von, House Call and Orange Bowl MVP.

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How does LSU have our number? I think we are basically even if not exactly even with them in baseball since we joined the conference (also they have never swept us and we have never swept them)

And we are 3-3 against them in Football ever since moving in from Sumlin. And basketball seems to be pretty even with them too but I haven't actually gone to look at the numbers

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Knocked us out in of the baseball tournament in 1989 when we were the better team. Knocked us out of the basketball tournament several years back on a last second 3-pointer when we were the better team. They often beat us in football when we are the better team. I am sure there are plenty of other examples.

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You're just naming the losses. We also beat them in football in 2022 and 2018 when they were the better team (and 2020 when we were). We beat them in baseball just as much as they beat us. And in basketball we are better than them

I'm not suggesting that we own them, just that we compete with them just as much as they do with us

LSU'S 52 NATIONAL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
Baseball (7)
1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2009, 2023
Men's Basketball (1)
1935*
Women's Basketball (1)
2023
Boxing (1)**
1949
Football (4)*
1958, 2003, 2007, 2019
Men's Golf (5)
1940, 1942, 1947, 1955, 2015
Gymnastics (1)
2024
Men's Indoor Track (2)
2001, 2004
Women's Indoor Track (11)
1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004
Men's Outdoor Track (5)
1933, 1989, 1990, 2002, 2021
Women's Outdoor Track (14)
1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2008
** Discontinued as NCAA sport


Not to be argumentative, but I think we're barely a blip on LSU's radar.

1989 is enough reason for me to dislike LSU for eternity.

The '89 team was the best A&M baseball team I've ever seen. They were ranked #1 almost all season long, and it was magical to watch them play. And then we suffer a freak loss to LSU and don't even make the CWS. It was absolutely GUTTING.

I'm just curious

Why in the hell did you make this post.

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I've never gotten over 1989.

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Me either.

I'll never get over Macho Grande

jsc8116 said:

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Especially the way they did, fly ball bouncing off the LSUs outfielders head with 2 outs left.

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Is there a video clip of this? I've searched without luck.

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I've never gotten over 1989.

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Mey...it was not her best album by a long shot...

I have 1 favorite team, that's all. I don't care about anyone else. Any team in the SEC (especially after we got sold out) that can eat **** I'm all for it. There's not a team except maybe Mizzou that I don't root against every game in everything. . tu and OU are a stain that we will never wash out now, and I wish the nothing but the worst to both of those scumbags.

And I was cheering for the tar heels the whole time!

nothingbutlove said:

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LSU'S 52 NATIONAL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
Baseball (7)
1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2009, 2023
Men's Basketball (1)
1935*
Women's Basketball (1)
2023
Boxing (1)**
1949
Football (4)*
1958, 2003, 2007, 2019
Men's Golf (5)
1940, 1942, 1947, 1955, 2015
Gymnastics (1)
2024
Men's Indoor Track (2)
2001, 2004
Women's Indoor Track (11)
1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004
Men's Outdoor Track (5)
1933, 1989, 1990, 2002, 2021
Women's Outdoor Track (14)
1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2008
** Discontinued as NCAA sport


Not to be argumentative, but I think we're barely a blip on LSU's radar.

1989 is enough reason for me to dislike LSU for eternity.

The '89 team was the best A&M baseball team I've ever seen. They were ranked #1 almost all season long, and it was magical to watch them play. And then we suffer a freak loss to LSU and don't even make the CWS. It was absolutely GUTTING.

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Win it all this year and please put 1989 behind…I mean that was 35 years ago…let it go

meh, never had too much of a problem with LSU. grew up watching Skip Bertman along with Mark Johnson baseball and had a cousin play basketball for the swamp kitties. I actually wanted them to play up and knock off UNC, but they ran out of gas (you can only survive on heroics for so long in the CWS).

We have to recruit directly against LSU, the sips, Arky & OU. Never root for any of them in any sport - its a zero sum game.

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We also beat them in football in 2022 and 2018 when they were the better team (and 2020 when we were). (And 2021 when the cheating refs screwed Demani out of a game-sealing fumble recovery)

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FIFY

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I used to feel that way. But after voting in tu I have no conference loyalty. I am happy Arky and LSU are done for the year

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It's an Everyman for himself league now! Fck'em all and stick that SEC, SEC,SEC chant up their ass.

Best of all the announcers won't be slobbering all over the horn and Sooners knobs about how much they add to the SEC during the course of the games. Hard to talk about teams that are sitting at home.

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Completely disagree. I was hoping to have as many teams from the SEC as possible in the super regionals and Omaha.

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Nahh...watching corndog hang their head in defeat and go home is glorious. Amazing how the level of trash talking on my facebook feed has dwindled to near nothing since they got the boot back to the boot.

West Point Aggie said:

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nothingbutlove said:

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LSU'S 52 NATIONAL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS
Baseball (7)
1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2009, 2023
Men's Basketball (1)
1935*
Women's Basketball (1)
2023
Boxing (1)**
1949
Football (4)*
1958, 2003, 2007, 2019
Men's Golf (5)
1940, 1942, 1947, 1955, 2015
Gymnastics (1)
2024
Men's Indoor Track (2)
2001, 2004
Women's Indoor Track (11)
1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004
Men's Outdoor Track (5)
1933, 1989, 1990, 2002, 2021
Women's Outdoor Track (14)
1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2008
** Discontinued as NCAA sport


Not to be argumentative, but I think we're barely a blip on LSU's radar.

1989 is enough reason for me to dislike LSU for eternity.

The '89 team was the best A&M baseball team I've ever seen. They were ranked #1 almost all season long, and it was magical to watch them play. And then we suffer a freak loss to LSU and don't even make the CWS. It was absolutely GUTTING.

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Win it all this year and please put 1989 behind…I mean that was 35 years ago…let it go

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No.

Because that regional (before the super regional brackets came about) loss did 2 things:

1. It set our baseball program back significantly, because instead of being a team that would legit have played for, if not won, a championship - it continued the history of A&M sports failing to take the next step at critical moments. Since then we have been the typical mediocre to slightly-above-mediocre program that made regionals easy (though didn't host much), rarely made supers and it was the outlying years where we made it to Omaha. And we didn't win in Omaha until last year.

2. Every bit as important - although lsu did not win the title in 1989, that series win over us absolutely changed the direction of their program. Bertman became a coach that players from all over wanted to play for, and it lit the fuse on every single one of lsu's baseball titles. They won 5 titles in the 90's. Prior to that they had never even been to the finals, and now they have the 2nd most titles in CWS history. Had we beaten them during that series, I posit that our trajectories would be reversed. But we didn't, and instead we have been the little brother that always wants to play with big brother, but can't quite keep up with him and his buddies on the bycicle.

That 1989 series should be etched on the wall at Olsen as a reminder that even if you are the absolute best team in the country, you play like you are in your last game and also as a lesson in history of two programs that went two different directions from that moment in time.

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1. It set our baseball program back significantly, because instead of being a team that would legit have played for, if not won, a championship - it continued the history of A&M sports failing to take the next step at critical moments. Since then we have been the typical mediocre to slightly-above-mediocre program that made regionals easy (though didn't host much), rarely made supers and it was the outlying years where we made it to Omaha. And we didn't win in Omaha until last year.

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I see where you're coming from, but this is too much of an exaggeration. We have not been a mediocre baseball program since the '60s, if ever. While we are not on LSU's level, we are a long way from being anywhere near mediocre...a REAL long way.

Counting this year, in the 35 seasons since we lost to LSU in '89 this is what we've done:

25 regional trips, hosting 13 times
9 years of missing a regional
1 year cancelled due to Covid
67 wins, 34 losses for a .663 winning percentage

Counting this year, in the 26 seasons since super regionals became a thing, this is what we've done:

10 super regionals, hosting 5 times
15 years of missing a super regional
1 year cancelled due to Covid
11 wins, 13 losses for a .458 winning percentage
Note: 2024 super regional results are TBD

During this 35 year timeframe, we have:

5 trips to the College World Series
29 years of missing the CWS
1 year cancelled due to Covid
3 wins, 10 losses for a .231 winning percentage

Our overall post-season record since that fateful day in 1989 is 81 wins and 57 losses for a winning percentage of .587.

So I'll grant you we haven't busted through to become a national powerhouse...but we are certainly better than "mediocre to slightly-above-mediocre." Of the 300+ Division I baseball teams out there, I guarantee you all but maybe about 15 of them would gladly trade places with us.

The term BAS didn't originate with that series. But it certainly was the genesis of it.

Still the single biggest nut punch I've experienced in my 40+ years of following A&M athletics

LSU is trash and should be treated as such

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I used to feel that way. But after voting in tu I have no conference loyalty. I am happy Arky and LSU are done for the year

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The SEC can end in a ball of flames for all I care

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LSU is trash and should be treated as such

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Change this to tu/LSU/arky and the rest of your sentiment is spot on. Heavier emphasis on the castrated ones.

The bars in Omaha are crying.

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The bars in Omaha are crying.

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If both Kentucky and Utenn make it…you know they're known for whiskey and bourbon…those MFers can flat out drink…the bars will be just fine!

jjksterag said:

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The bars in Omaha are crying.

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The bouncers are going to miss kicking the **** out of a bunch of lowlifes

West Point Aggie said:

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jjksterag said:

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The bars in Omaha are crying.

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If both Kentucky and Utenn make it…you know they're known for whiskey and bourbon…those MFers can flat out drink…the bars will be just fine!

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No doubt they love their whiskey, but UT and UK fans are not known for traveling to support baseball. Tennessee had very few fans in Omaha last year. If Kentucky makes it, I'm sure they will bring a few fans because it's their first trip.

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The bars in Omaha are crying.

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The bouncers are going to miss kicking the **** out of a bunch of lowlifes

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The city of Omaha loves LSU and LSU fans. Omaha locals even wear LSU gear when the Tigers are there, and several bars will transform into LSU bars. There will be a contingent of traveling LSU fans at the CWS this year, there are many fans that go every year regardless of LSU making it or not.