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VTChip VTChip OP
May 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM ET
Man, LSU fans are not taking losing to SE LA well
Some sample posts on their message board: *Is Torino gone tomorrow? She should not survive the weekend! *I pray so. My daughter is a top HS prospect with a hell of a riser but I’ve been steering her clear of LSU till Beth is gone. Once she’s gone and the NIL money is there.. we’ll talk *If someone is willing to pony up the buyout maybe but nobody has been willing to do that since she has been here. So for that reason, no. *Here's how I would handle the situation considering paying any buyouts would likely come out of the NIL fund: I don't know how many years Beth has left on her contract, but i would tell her that there won't be any extensions, we'll move on at the end of the contract. The only situation that would earn her a new contract would be a national title. I would begin compiling a list of replacement candidates and just hope that she decides to move on herself. ETA: 3 years left. Ugh, I don't know if I can stomach keeping her through 2028. *Beth I hear you calling But they cant extend you right now You and the girls are losing And you're coaching like a clown just a few more losses and the pink slip comes to you just a few more losses oh Beth, what can you do? *Only if she resigns on her own. She might, the heat is getting to her a lot. Don't know if she is tough enough to take the heat or just resign to another position in the Athletic Office. *If it was any other sport at LSU she would be gone. They haven’t been to the WCWS since 2017 and quite frankly been extremely mediocre that entire time span. She deserves to get the pink slip but I’m not holding my breathe. *No, it’s softball. Nobody cares. Don’t overpay for a coach. Put that money towards football *Cancel softball like Vandy did.. Funnel that money to baseball. Torina is garbage, she makes 455k a year to lose to lesser competition year after year. Her 455k would get LSU baseball another Tommy White every year. *Build the new basketball arena where the softball field is and that’s our excuse. We don’t have a field anymore. We don’t have the footprint for a softball field, lol *Maybe the softball super fan will find another team. I can't watch the games for long because of his antics *Vanderbilt doesn’t have a softball team. They’re onto something

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VTCALS72
They would fit right in on TSL
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Hokie_Forester
We are all angels compared to SEC fans. They have zero mercy.
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VAHokie89
Not if we had lost to Belmont
You know there would be some ugliness
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Hokie_Forester
As bad as we can get SEC fans are a whole different level.
PokieHokie PokieHokie
Who in their right mind would want to coach at LSU! The fans sound HORRIBLE
MidloHokie MidloHokie
I'll be very surprised if Torina keeps her job. She likely shouldn't.
Given the resources ($$$) available to her there you can't lose those two games. They have not been to OKC since 2017 after regular appearances there in the prior decade. I think she was likely on edge of the cliff because of that. These losses will push her over.
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Techdady
Buy out probably 2 million, doubt they cough that up. They peaked too early
MidloHokie MidloHokie
Seems her contract runs through 2028 @ $400K annually.
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Techdady
Whats a few extra hundred grand? LOL Thought she re-uped last year for 5yrs
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VAHokie89
Yhe problem is though
If you look at her players, pitchers, etc… would you say that she has players to win? As of you like those players, respect their abilities and think her roster is good? If so, then she has used resources to have good players other than buying a canady or great players. If so, then on-field execution by players is an issue Then again if the roster is fine, is it the pitching coach, pitching calls, hitting coach, in game decisions about sending runners, bunting/not bunting, stealing, removing pitchers in timely manner, etc When people criticize coaches, i want tangible reasons why, not just that the team lost. Not saying she should not go. Just saying that i prefer real analysis of what is actually a pattern that results in losses that are in the control of coaches :).
MidloHokie MidloHokie
All this makes sense BUT in the end it's about winning (or not). Seems . .
. . . she's under contract at $400K/year through 2028. So that's also a factor. ** Edited by MidloHokie at 5/18/2025, 8:56:33 AM
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HokiesACC2004
Like us losing to Longwood times a million
PhotoHokieNC PhotoHokieNC
They have softball confused with life/death experiences.
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billcarstensen
Sec fans do that with all sports
And those who see sports as more important than life donate a lot of money for them and expect a lot. A stupid reaction that is very unfair to the kids who play, but inexplicable? No. A better life is to enjoy sports for what they are - GAMES - not agonize over them.
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ancient alien 2018
There are several appropriate words to describe this type of "fan" but I
shall not use them on this board so Will or CC don't make me a "banned fan"!! Just outright sickening!!
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SuperFeHokie
I live in Baton Rouge; I attend a lot of LSU softball games.
LSU beat us (of course i was present). However collectively, Va Tech is a better softball team than LSU. The Hokies are a very talented team; our best day is better than LSU best day. Playing in the SEC has a stigma that benefits the SEC because they’ve earned it! fyi … there’s a lot of Hokies in Baton Rouge.
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SuperFeHokie
LSU has DNA 🧬 for national championship…. Yes it means more
BackInTheBurg BackInTheBurg
The modified KISS lyrics from the song “Beth” 😭
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VTsportscaster
Ouch, figured it was happening but that’s bad!!