re: SEC Baseball tournament should consider moving to Pensacola

There are certainly better venues in the conference footprint than Hoover from a fan standpoint, and if we stay with the current format, I think a move would be in order. But, I wonder if we will retain the current format after expansion. With 16 teams, you are leaving four at home, rather than two. It's unlikely that any of those four would be in consideration for an NCAA bid, but it also means that you're going to have some teams eliminated from even conference tournament consideration a week or two earlier than is the case now, which could influence the title race if contenders end up playing those teams.

Frankly, I'd like to see them consider pool play, and having all 16 teams come. You'd need two venues to do this, but greater Birmingham has two. You'd have four pools of four teams -- two pools would play in Birmingham at the Barons park, and two at Hoover. The winners of the four pools would play single elimination semi-finals on Saturday at Hoover, and then a championship game on Sunday at Hoover.

Each team would be guaranteed 3 games (so it would be worth making the trip for the fans, and keeps your pitchers on something more like their regular rotation).