I'll be almost more interested in the Lady Huskers in the College World Series in OKC takin on Bamanot a great night for the lady Huskers
Baseball playoffs are too expansive in my view. A great team can easily get knocked out at some point.But even if that happens, generally the teams that make it to the CWS are all good and deserving, and the team that wins it all is worthy.
not a great night for the lady Huskers
Nebraska softball will face Texas in an elimination game tomorrow at 2 p.m. CST on ABC.
Auburn lost to UW-Milwaukee.Great look for Milwaukee.
Not a good look.
obviously you haven't followed Big Ten baseball the past few decadesMichigan made it to the final NC series a few years ago. But aside from that, yeah...
But even if that happens, generally the teams that make it to the CWS are all good and deserving, and the team that wins it all is worthy.It’s funny, someone pointed out maybe 15 years ago that in the majors with seven game series, the team with a better record only won about 52% of the time. And that’s in seven games (maybe it included 5-gamers)
Michigan made it to the final NC series a few years ago. But aside from that, yeah...A number of years ago, I was chatting with a midwestern mid-major coach who spent time in the Big Ten. I asked him about southern teams, as I had spent a few years in a baseball hot bed before then. His response:
But even if that happens, generally the teams that make it to the CWS are all good and deserving, and the team that wins it all is worthy.This is where we are now with football.
Yeah, its like starting a Frozen Four thread on an SEC board.Do you know how hard it was for Pat Richter to kill baseball?
Although at least the Big Ten (aside from Wisconsin) is at least trying a little
Welp, overall #1 seed UCLA is out. Might need a tougher regular season schedule to get them ready for the postseason.2nd straight year the #1 overall seed failed to get out of the Regional
2nd straight year the #1 overall seed failed to get out of the RegionalYup, last year both the #1 and #2 national seeds didn't make it out of their own regionals. And both were SECSECSEC. I guess their regular season schedules just weren't enough to prepare them for the postseason.
Economics were different.Might work if they could build a dome stadium.
And at this point, it’s not really worth restarting. All that stuff ain’t cheap, it’s not great for profile and not that much of a fan pleaser.
Yup, last year both the #1 and #2 national seeds didn't make it out of their own regionals. And both were SECSECSEC. I guess their regular season schedules just weren't enough to prepare them for the postseason.
UK-WVU and A&M-USC as the doubleheader tonight should be a ton of funWas over at the Ag inlaws for much of their game against USC last night. They were... not pleased... to say the least. Especially after Texas had just punched its ticket to the Supers.
If you're looking to deride a conference for being overrated in baseball, the ACC board is over there --->>Not really my intent, just pointing out the irony and faulty logic of suggesting that a top national seed losing in its own regional was necessarily a result of a weak conference regular season schedule, when last year not just one but both of the top two national seeds failed to advance out of their own regionals, and both of them were SECSECSEC teams.
Yup, last year both the #1 and #2 national seeds didn't make it out of their own regionals. And both were SECSECSEC. I guess their regular season schedules just weren't enough to prepare them for the postseason.It was a joke. Ribbing. Poking fun.
It was a joke. Ribbing. Poking fun.Yeah that's fair. I was really just bantering, taking an opportunity for a self-deprecating shot at the SEC and Texas.
Yeah that's fair. I was really just bantering, taking an opportunity for a self-deprecating shot at the SEC and Texas.Hunt down the football team, Phil Knight and Dan Lanning too please.
Anyway, I'm happy that THIS season, Texas didn't get bounced from the regional.
I should be able to make it to all games of the Super. Time to go duck hunting in Austin.
Hunt down the football team, Phil Knight and Dan Lanning too please.Of those I suspect only Knight would make it to Austin this weekend. And I doubt I could get close enough for any hunting.
Of those I suspect only Knight would make it to Austin this weekend. And I doubt I could get close enough for any hunting.If you do get close, at least kick his cane.
I'll have to settle for rooting for baseball victories.
The sports, they’re pretty good right nowIt's a fun time of year, I've been a big fan of the NCAA post-season baseball tournament since the 80s. Back when I was in college, only 48 teams made it to the baseball tourney and it was organized into eight regionals of 6 teams each, with a true double elimination tournament to decide the winner. It was awesome seeing all of the different schools and their fans roll in for what amounted to a VERY long weekend.
It's a fun time of year, I've been a big fan of the NCAA post-season baseball tournament since the 80s. Back when I was in college, only 48 teams made it to the baseball tourney and it was organized into eight regionals of 6 teams each, with a true double elimination tournament to decide the winner. It was awesome seeing all of the different schools and their fans roll in for what amounted to a VERY long weekend.I think you were the one who explained to me how that worked and I thought it sounded insane. Which it still does, but in kind of fun way.
Softball's fun too, especially when your school's team is pretty good.
Softball's fun too, especially when your school's team is pretty good.And with that, Texas takes two in a row to eliminate UTenn and head to the WCWS finals.
I assumed they had won their regional, but they are do or die against Oklahoma now. 7-3 lead in 7th.So, no.
Troy-Little Rock for a trip to OmahaI just imagine the Troy groundskeepers panicking and running around, having to host a Super. Even with supreme confidence, they'd have to assume they'd be playing at the other regional-winner's place.
I just imagine the Troy groundskeepers panicking and running around, having to host a Super. Even with supreme confidence, they'd have to assume they'd be playing at the other regional-winner's place.Michigan upset the #1 overall seed Vanderbilt in 2007, and should have hosted the super regional, but they assumed that wasn't a possibility, so they started renovations on the stadium after the regular season ended.
If you're looking to deride a conference for being overrated in baseball, the ACC board is over there --->>
We're getting A LOT of football scores this year. I haven't looked at the annual stats, but maybe it's time for wood bats in college.
It seems like they have trouble finding the happy medium. As a fan of a team who at least at one time was the poster-child, if not the author, of gorilla ball, I'm kinda okay with it, but I get its lack of appeal to a lot of fans. But I'd take that over what they did back 13, 14, years ago when the CWS scrapped Rosenblatt, built TD Ameritrade intentionally at the highest point, made it face against the wind, at the same time the sport adopted ~30% less active bats.I don't understand how (smart?) decision-makers in major positions are seemingly allergic to small corrections.
The CWS became unwatchable for me, and the field tilted. I don't care what purists say, and I know not everyone agreed with me. They're free to be wrong. Small-ball teams had the advantage. Previously, all kinds of teams could make Omaha and have a fair shot at competing.
They claimed they wanted the game to be more like the MLB. Back then I checked, and the MLB averaged over 1 HR per game. I watched an entire CWS one year where out of all games played at TD Ameritrade, there were 4 HRs, total. We had two of them, and couldn't win either game we played. Nowhere near 1 HR per game. You take away the excitement and the importance of the long ball, I'm out. Creighton, who played their home games in that place, had 0 HRs that year.
And as much as I love great pitching--and a fine pitcher's-duel-type game--I also hate rewarding a pitcher who floats a lame duck over the strike zone, when he should be punished. When a batter gets into that, it should be gone. Bailing out crappy pitches because the bats and the wind kill everything inside the park isn't a great pitcher's duel, it's just rewarding mediocrity on the mound and punishing batters.
That same year I mentioned, a great LSU team made the field and went 2 and out. The park punished everything about that team. They lost g1 to eventual winner UCLA 2-1. Granted, LSU did a lot wrong in that game so I can't blame the loss entirely or even mostly on the state of the game. But it's also true that it seems LSU should have prevailed even in spite of some mistakes and an uncharacteristic string of lead-off singles from the pitcher. Because you can tell by the sound the bat makes when a ball is launched. At least I can. Twice that game, LSU batters blistered what would've been solo shots anywhere else, and everybody knew it. Except they weren't. Died in center field, like every other crushed ball. I couldn't escape the feeling that despite UCLA being genuinely good, and despite us playing an overall worse game, we still should've won that 3-2. I can coulda, woulda, shoulda, the other things as well. Fine. But you're supposed to be able to overcome some mistakes with great moments. In that park, we just couldn't, and that Bruins pitcher got away with two pansy pitches that he should've had to eat.
After that we lost to UNC, another power hitting team, who just flat outplayed us, but I couldn't help but notice they should have absolutely drilled us, but they couldn't, because the same thing happened to them. Our pitcher wasn't up to the challenge that day, they got a hold of some that should've been long gone....except they weren't.
After that I basically stopped watching the CWS until they changed the seams in the balls, which brought some offense back. Now, I'm not sure what's going on because I haven't been keeping up with it the last few years, but I'll take games like SC's in the College Station regional over the small-ball-required snooze-fest that Omaha was for several years.
I would love to hate Texas, but their uniforms are just so perfectHa!
I saw somewhere that UGA will be matched with Texas in Omaha, probably the two best teams left. I don't understand how they work seeding, or if it matters. It's double E, no? I don't know the scheme.It's two 4-team brackets playing a double-elimination tournament, same format as the regionals.
Maybe I need to watch it a few more times but that USC CF play on that last ball was ...awkward.
Did he misjudge? Not pick it up until too late? Would've been an elite catch to be sure, just didn't look right.
Statcast would help.
Bulldogs can play baseball.
LF: 350 ft (106.7 m) LC: 370 ft (112.8 m) CF: 404 ft (123.1 m) RC: 365 ft (111.3 m) RF: 314 ft (95.7 m) |
I saw somewhere that UGA will be matched with Texas in Omaha, probably the two best teams left. I don't understand how they work seeding, or if it matters. It's double E, no? I don't know the scheme.Well, they don’t reseed. So it matches the winner of the 1/16 regionals with the winner of the 8/9 regional, then 2/15 vs 7/10.
Since this weekend was the first college baseball I've watched all year, I was puzzled whether UGA is really that good or if Clanga's pitching wasn't up to it. A team that scores literally almost every inning makes me suspicious.Yeah the Horns didn't play Georgia this year so I can't provide a direct personal review.
Incidentally, people have complained about The Box being a hitter's park over the years. Sheesh.....our place ain't got nothing on UGA's field.
The dimensions of the UGA field are pretty standard, RF is closer at 314. A lot of the HRs hit out would have left anywhere. The Al bats are a factor overall.
LF: 350 ft (106.7 m)
LC: 370 ft (112.8 m)
CF: 404 ft (123.1 m)
RC: 365 ft (111.3 m)
RF: 314 ft (95.7 m)
It does seem dumb, but nobody has ever suggested doing that in basketball, because everyone filled out a bracket, but you could just as easily do it there.Outside the NFL, does anyone reseed?
When MSU won in 2000, their region was complete chalk, I think they face 16-8-4-2 to get to the Final 4. And every other region went to hell. The other 3 teams in the Final 4 were a 5 seed and 2 8 seeds. MSU's two "toughest" opponents were in the Sweet 16 and Elite 8.
In 2018 one side of the bracket in the Final 4 was #1 Villanova (who beat #3 in the Elite 8) vs. #1 Kansas (who beat #2 in the Elite 8). The other side was #3 Michigan (who beat #9 in the Elite 8) vs. #11 Loyola (who beat #9 in the Elite 8). So one side of the Elite 8 was 1-1-2-3. The other side was 3-9-9-11. It is what it is.
(But it is always helpful to remind Michigan fans that the highest seed they beat on their run to the title game was a 6 seed, on a half court buzzer beater in the Round of 32) :57:
Outside the NFL, does anyone reseed?NHL used to
rooting for the B1G and against the SEC
not really that interested - probably won't be watching much
Make the Big 10 ten again.(https://www.illinoisloyalty.com/attachments/ls7a1sx-gif.36570/)
Just saw a reel with a guy waxing about 5 teams that shouldn't have moved.true but,........... the alternative would have been to be in the same conference as Texas Tech
Nebraska Kinda ditto to Mizzou
yup, had the nits turned down the invite, the Big Ten might still be at 10There was no invite. JoePa called Delany and it was done.
Per CBS Sports, this is the first time since 1976 that the MCWS will not feature a team from Florida or California.I’d be interested to see the history there. It felt like California was carried at times by small schools that might struggle to maintain. Florida maybe carried by the big few schools, but they all got cut out.
I’d be interested to see the history there. It felt like California was carried at times by small schools that might struggle to maintain. Florida maybe carried by the big few schools, but they all got cut out.Off the top of my head and without googling, at different times the state of California has had CWS winners from USC, UCLA, Cal-State Fullerton, Stanford, and Pepperdine. They likely have had other schools make it to the CWS and not win, but those are the "biggies."
The Long Beach State Dirtbags have been a tournament regular since the late 80's. Fresno State has reached the CWS only 4 times, but won a title in 2008.Oh yeah pretty sure we've been eliminated by both of those at various points in the tournament. UC Irvine as well, I think they've made it to Omaha before.
The Googlez tells me the Cal Bears have had periodic successful stints with 6 CWS appearances and 2 titles, and that the UC-Irvine Anteaters have a strong post-season resume in the modern-era, with 2 CWS appearances.Oh yeah. Berkeley has been good at times too.
Of course it's significantly easier to come through the losers' bracket in softball, when you can realistically have the same pitcher go every single outing if you like.There is Single and beautiful solution to this problem: murder baseballs.
Meanwhile in college baseball, once you get knocked into the losers' bracket, thin or mediocre pitching staffs are a killer. Texas' pitching is arguably both. We've got a couple decent starters, not much middle relief, and no true closer.
There is Single and beautiful solution to this problem: murder baseballs.
Oh yeah. Berkeley has been good at times too.I used AI (And some manual copying and pasting because Claude told me it was too big a lift) To make a list of every Florida and California school to make a year by year.
Seems a lot more widely spread in Cali than it is in Flordia, although it's possible USF or UCF have been to Omaha at one time or another.
Well now you've gone and jinxed it.Nah, much like football, theyve proven they dont belong
Hmmm, in the end, Texas‘ pitching depth didn’t cost it. Interesting.Our hitting has been similarly suspect all year. In a lot of ways this team was lucky to make it this far. But still finishing around #6 is where a lot of folks, including the selection committee, had us.
Baseball is quirky that way.
The organ player at the CWS has amused me. He has an entertaining selection of song snippets.I have also really enjoyed the organ music.
I wonder how much a gig like that pays?
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This old fart LSU guy behind home plate the whole tournament has an even older LSU fart with him today. Papa Fart, possibly?
I have also really enjoyed the organ music.
I still find it remarkable how teams can have a fantastic regular season and then flame out in any playoff.This is a great example of sample size. Mystery solved. Unremarkable.
That's all any postseason tournament is. Same as it ever was.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsSpAOD6K8&pp=0gcJCUACo7VqN5tD&ra=m
That's all any postseason tournament is. Same as it ever was.Some are more exclusive than others....but that's going the wrong way, it seems. Sub-500? Come on in! Wild-card! Expand to ___ teams? Yep!
Rooting against OU is always the correct choice.
Oklahoma was sub-.500 in SEC games....playing for a NC.The teams that finished ahead of them should’ve played baseball better.
No one should pretend this is about competition. Solely for entertainment purposes.
Defending something because it's the best way makes sense.A double elimination tournament is a better way than standings with uneven schedules, and the stuff about losing your SEC tournament game and losing some number of series in a row is feelings-y bullshit.
Defending it because that's how it's done, that's how it's been, tradition, because reasons, if it ain't fixed, don't break it......does not.
UNC is such a miserable institution. I always enjoy rooting against themOU is way, way worse. In every way.
A double elimination tournament is a better way than standings with uneven schedules, and the stuff about losing your SEC tournament game and losing some number of series in a row is feelings-y bullshit.The feelings-y bullshit was to negate the potential 'yeah, but' argument of maybe they sucked early on and got hot late (which they didn't). OU did nothing to play their way IN to a national championship tournament. It has nothing to do with the SEC and honestly nothing to do with OU itself.
The Nos. 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 15 teams in the field had a chance to stop Oklahoma from winning a title. If they don’t, tough shit.
(if you’d like, maybe they can cap the number of SEC teams who get to go. But I have a strange feeling that it’s gonna cause its own separate piss fit)
OU has afforded me some more UNC/ACC lolz, and for that, I'm grateful.(https://24.media.tumblr.com/486e18ae6eecfff97fdc19dbc33ab4ca/tumblr_mhqc9iSDIg1qed7g8o2_400.gif)
OU is way, way worse. In every way.Man, I don't know about that.
UNC is such a miserable institution. I always enjoy rooting against themI fully agree.
Man, I don't know about that.
I fully agree.UNC and UM are two absolutely phenomenal schools. and there are no two schools who have leaned on that more heavily to sneak in kids that most other public schools would not admit, and then also keep them eligible
I'm glad they are not in the conference. We have enough cancer without that shithole of a school.
UNC and UM are two absolutely phenomenal schools. and there are no two schools who have leaned on that more heavily to sneak in kids that most other public schools would not admit, and then also keep them eligibleThere are plenty of shithole schools that have never needed to "sneak" in anyone, because their standards were so laughably low that they were well below all of their peers anyway.
There are plenty of shithole schools that have never needed to "sneak" in anyone, because their standards were so laughably low that they were well below all of their peers anyway.Michigan gets kids in that other top schools like Wisconsin, Washington, UCLA, Illinois and Penn State have no chance at admitting.
Michigan gets kids in that other top schools like Wisconsin, Washington, UCLA, Illinois and Penn State have no chance at admitting.And yet I still find the schools that just allow anyone in, all the time, to be worse.
Are these elite schools you're talking about?They're schools that compete in the same sports at the same level as all the rest. One of them just won the College World Series.
Are they academic snobs?No, they're shitstain cheater schools that have always lowered the bar for their admissions and paid their players for decades in order to beat superior academic schools in sports.
And yet I still find the schools that just allow anyone in, all the time, to be worse.Michigan and UNC do. They have whole departments dedicated to it, and then hide behind their US News ratings
But have they pretended to be otherwise?Eh. I don't really care about that. I care a lot more about the 100 years plus of rampant unchecked cheating.
UNC and UM are such pretentious douchebags
Michigan and UNC do. They have whole departments dedicated to it, and then hide behind their US News ratingsThey're small time compared to the real cheater schools. It's just not even close.
Michigans General Studies department has put more kids through school than the GI BillSure but how many of them were firing off Uzis in the dorm halls?
Sure but how many of them were firing off Uzis in the dorm halls?I mean Mazi Smith is one who comes to mind of recent vintage
And still completed all 4 years of eligibility???
I mean Mazi Smith is one who comes to mind of recent vintagePossessing a gun in his pickup truck?
Nobody is saying Oklahoma is the piller of morality. But UM and UNC hold themselves up as such, while being two of the easiest schools for athletes to gain admission toAnd I don't care about that at all.
I would never do that but,..... I thought the uzi was fired off the roof of the dorm not down the hallwayOh well that would make it entirely okay.
This feels like entirely too much effort to convince a Texas fan to tone down an insult of Oklahoma.Yeah. The Michigan State grad hating on Michigan was something entirely different of course... :57:
The feelings-y bullshit was to negate the potential 'yeah, but' argument of maybe they sucked early on and got hot late (which they didn't). OU did nothing to play their way IN to a national championship tournament. It has nothing to do with the SEC and honestly nothing to do with OU itself.Your solution is the major league approach that was invented before the disposable camera? Cool? And we’re not even suggesting a number. Hmmm.
A bad system is a bad system. It doesn't do a good job of being exclusive, it doesn't do a good job of drawing interest (as the argument for basketball relies on).
A good system would be having the top __ number of teams playing 5-7 game series. But that would omit the sub-.500 SEC team or the Missouri Valley champ. For shame!
Your post reeks of a disposable camera. You're not seriously addressing a modern-day person, just a lazy caricature of who you think I might be.