re: Tide Baseball 31-27 (12-17)

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I don't understand booking this kind of out-of-conference schedule for baseball. Doing okay in the SEC is good enough to make the post-season without needing a stout OOC schedule.

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Because whipping up on cupcakes pre-conference does absolutely nothing to prepare you for conference play or improve your chances of making a regional.

We went something like 17-1 before conference play in 2019, entered conference play unranked, and went 8-22ish in conference.

Beating up on teams with pitchers throwing 85 MPH down the middle and then facing SEC pitchers averaging 95 MPH is just not a good situation anymore.

2 years ago I would have disagreed with everything I just said.