Don't know that we should be #1,
- Thread starter TeeCock
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We are just noticing that we have the same record as WF after much more of a gauntlet schedule. Why should WF or LSU be #1? People only think that because they started the season with higher expectations.
I say let's stay at #2, it will keep the boys focused to achieve another pre-post season goal and it may have tightening effect on LSU.
Like has been said rankings don't matter now, just get that national seed.
Like has been said rankings don't matter now, just get that national seed.
Baseball America has us at #2, so that's better. But I think there comes a time when you look at what a team has done. And we're at that time with a month left in the season. We're tied for the best record in baseball, with being #1 in the RPI and the #2 SOS in the country. Wake is good. But they're not deserving of a higher ranking that USC, nor is LSU. LSU is ranked ahead of us b/c they were better than us last year. Same with Wake. I'm sorry, but I think that's ludicrous. Wake won 2 of 3 against unraked Pitt. LSU swept 14th in the SEC Ole Miss (playing 3 close games). We swept #3 in the country, run ruled them one game, and they never lead at the end of an inning the entire weekend (missing 3 of 4 starting infield for 2 of those games). All 3 teams were very similar heading into the weekend. Coming out of the weekend, one team looks much different than the other 2.
I get that none of it matters until the last poll, but if you don't think they players and program benefit from being the #1 program in the country you're kidding yourself. They deserve it. And it's stupid that it's not happening just b/c that's where LSU started.
True, but the higher ranked teams get better matchups in the regionals/supers. So you want that #1 overall seed.
We should absolutely be #1. LSU is #1 b/c we had to cancel game 3 of our series.
I'm confident we would have taken that series. That would have been huge. As it sits now, it's just a split 1-1. Big difference.
The final poll is certainly the one which matters most, but I would like to be at least in the top 8 at the conclusion of the SECT, i.e., be a national seed.