Non conference strength of schedule killed us.
Our OOC SOS leaps off the page compared to AZ and ECU.
Fixed it for you. You cannot lose 5 Quad 4 games. We learned that in 2014 & had to sacrifice Matthew Stevens for our sins.
Hell while we are at it let’s just say we shoulda won them all.
Non conf rpi
Also like I mentioned in another post. We played 2 ooc quad 1 games. Our entire quad 1 schedule was sec games.. our argument was our sec record and quad 1 wins.. when in reality they were both the same things
Would have been easy to have a really good OOS schedule. Replace 3 vs Mt St Mary with something like a road series at a LA Tech or South Alabama or a neutral tournament like the one Bama played in (Arizona, TCU & Dallas Baptist). Do that and no one’s criticizing our OOC strength of schedule.
SOS killed us because we didn’t win games.
Since you are psychic, I’m sure you predicted the games we’d lose this spring. So it would be easy to replace them with harder games, right?
Again the easiest path to hosting. Schedule better in the non conference or win 40-45 games…, which is easier to do? Win baseball games or call up a few other schools to put on the schedule?
Exactly the point, it wasn't the OOC schedule but rather the OOC performance that did us in for hosting.
Excuse me! Chair was full of BS and answered with a non-answer. Check ECU and Az SOS and quad 1 records. They rewarded them for winning their sub-par conference. Every committee member got what they wanted by getting their teams in our hosting. Check Coastal Carolina getting in and how they finished in their conference since how you did in conference was so important for some schools but not others.
Right, but Non-Con RPI is simply:
Think d1 baseball got 14 of the 16 sites
It’s easier to beat bad teams. We just screwed up and lost this year. And that’s on Lemonis.
I can go with that. But I admit that one reason we might should have hosted is because it helps the sport. We didn’t close the deal, and we knew how the committee views things. They’ve wanted to make it national forever, unless it was just totally obvious. Oh well. Now we go on the road to prove ourselves.
For sure. Win 5 more games we are in… that really never has been my argument.
I completely agree. Play a competitive OOC schedule and you'll be rewarded if you lose several of those games. Play the schedule we did, and there's a lot less room for a random loss here or there. Its just a completely unnecessary risk to take.
It doesn't help the sport when we host. Nobody's watching. We've hosted countless times before and it hasn't helped the sport any. It's great for us and our fans, and maybe even SEC fans. But nobody else cares.
The RPI was 13th in the league because of 4 bad losses, not because the schedule was horrible. As has already been stated, our nonconference SOS was middle of the pack in the league. Its not the reason we missed the cut.
In that case @retire the banner may be right. Why do we care?
God you’re getting close to goat level.
Connor Hujsak said just last week on ESPN that the point in time that he really started getting serious about his baseball future was when his team (VCU) played in the Starkville regional 3 years ago. He's likely not the only player/parent to ever have that thought after experiencing Dudy Noble. Or maybe even seeing it on TV.
Sure it is. It’s a great way to grow the game. But playing a regional in Santa Barbara for the first time ever will grow it as well… and they earned that right to host. Hopefully we will again soon
We were good enough you stupid bastard. The fact that we were on the hosting bubble bears that out.
Goat. Real baseball convo. How’s the weight lifting program coming?
