8-0 Samford. Just turned on game.
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Good Lord. I had hope that we'd turn a corner at some point this season and thought Auburn was that corner. I figured leaders would step up and all that jazz. It's like we've cashed it in though and that worries me. How often does a team go from winning a NC to taking a massive dump on everything? Not only that but getting WORSE down the stretch?
Season was over a week ago. This team knows that. They are done playing. This roster needs a total revamp to say the least. Definitely need some pitchers. And a catcher, couple of outfielders, first baseman, third baseman, water boy....
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We are trying to help their RPI by letting them win.
You're playing checkers, Lemonis is playing Chinese Checkers...or something like that.
I don’t really see this as us quitting. The way we lose doesn’t really fit the bill of a team that has phoned it in. When we lose, it tends to either be by a run or two or it’s close until the 8th or 9th when we just fall apart.
We haven’t quit, we just suck this year.
We haven’t quit, we just suck this year.
11 runners stranded on the bases thru 8 innings. This team must have a below .200 ba for runners in scoring position for the season.
You're not wrong. But the schedule is still inexcusable. RPI can make a difference in some years, so there's no reason not to schedule accordingly. And, as we've proved this year, 13 Q4 games (and counting) doesn't do a damn thing to help develop players.
I am the biggest critic of our schedule there is. I am the biggest proponent of trying to manipulate RPI with scheduling there is. RPI is the single most important metric there is and 75% is out of your control the day you release the schedule
edit. Sorry. Thought Pat was responding to me
edit. Sorry. Thought Pat was responding to me
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Can you imagine if we were still a bubble team what would happen after we played RPI# 283/301 North Alabama next week? I'm hoping if that were ever the case and there wasn't a chance of bad weather that night that the field would experience an 'unexpected' sprinkler malfunction or electrical failure preventing a game.
It's Samford. This ain't Tennessee we are playing. And yes, if only we had played a tougher schedule all year. That woulda fixed it
Season was over the day State lost to Northern Kentucky. I had a gut feeling this group was rudderless. And Lemonis found his *** spreading out again as he continued to sit on that ball bucket way too long.
Haven’t we complained about the schedule for a number of years without it really biting us? I think of our schedule as: One premier OOC weekend, USM & OM in Jackson, quite a few scrubs & then our SEC schedule.
Did that formula really change that from 2021 to 2022?
Did that formula really change that from 2021 to 2022?
We schedule Princeton and N Kentucky at home for 3 game series. Those were known RPI negatives. Cant do 2 of those and then also schedule Pine Bluff, Grambling, TN Martin and N Alabama at home. Thats 10 games we just threw away from an RPI a standpoint.
Like I said. Being good and scheduling are two separate things. If you are really bad it doesn’t matter. If you are really good it doesn’t matter. But there are teams you can schedule that you can beat that won’t kill your rpi like Princeton.
I get it, but there are people that actually believe if we scheduled better our RPI would be borderline regional. If we played ULala for a 3 game set instead of Princeton we probably drop 2 of 3 and be below .500 overall.
Probably. But there is a possibility that players would have risen to the occasion. We are not super talented, but we are not as bad as we are showing. We're probably just mentally weak and lack leadership (I guess that's why we are so bad with RISP?). We have a lot of players that would probably play better on a team with good leadership (or at least their flaws could be hidden a little bit more if they were surrounded by better players). Maybe if they had faced tougher competition earlier it would have been a **** or get off the pot moment for some of them. Probably not; we'd probably be in the same spot with a worse record. But having a good schedule doesn't hurt you, so I'm not sure why wouldn't just try to use schedule with an eye towards RPI.
When I read your "risen" comment, I thought of the Atlanta falcons' "rise up". Seems perfect - we are the Atlanta falcons this year. We suck, and I can't wait for this roster to be reconstructed
And with that schedule, we can win out and finish 15-15 in SEC play, including a home sweep of the #1 team in the country and a road sweep of another Top 15 team, and we’re still not going to sniff the regionals. That’s flat out unacceptable from a scheduling standpoint for an SEC team.
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I think I read on here that we are the 8th team in history to win a NC and not make the tourney the following year.
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