[Goose]

For the most part, I don't think we lost because our players were inherently not good enough, we lost because they didn't play well enough and Mississippi State did.

I agree. The talent isn't inferior, but the result was. I have no way of knowing, but I wonder if the feeling on the team was similar to the feeling I detected a bit on this board, namely "We aren't really that good. We are just glad to get this far". Both we and UCLA were highly ranked nationally, but it didn't appear that way in the Super Regional. OSU, we knew wasn't "for real". Did we suspect we weren't either? What does the board think?

[Goose]

For the most part, I don't think we lost because our players were inherently not good enough, we lost because they didn't play well enough and Mississippi State did.

I agree. The talent isn't inferior, but the result was. I have no way of knowing, but I wonder if the feeling on the team was similar to the feeling I detected a bit on this board, namely "We aren't really that good. We are just glad to get this far". Both we and UCLA were highly ranked nationally, but it didn't appear that way in the Super Regional. OSU, we knew wasn't "for real". Did we suspect we weren't either? What does the board think?