re: Fact of the day: SEC BASEBALL WAY OVERRATED!

Using 2 wks to judge a league is ridiculous, especially these past 2 wks. You are playing in the NCAA tournament, facing quality pitching & hitting in 4-5-6 intense games, underdog teams fired up way beyond their day to day abilities. Shite happens. Wanna say that Louisville was over rated? Got beat by a grand slam in the bottom of the 9th by a walk on catcher who was 3rd string.A&M over rated? They had a stud team all season long. Moo St, the same. The SEC had 3-4-5-6 teams in the Top 10 all season long.

More so than the other Big 3 sports, baseball has parity. It is a sport that is almost entirely dependent on pitching and pitching can be developed post high school due to better coaching. Meaning lessor programs can find diamonds on the rough and that is further helped by the partial qualifier rules in some conferences and ease of admission.

It could be said the ACC was more overrated with more teams in the field and only 1 in the CWS if Florida beats FSU tonight.

Yep, stupid us- we did not have UCSB #1 all year long. What were we thinking?

I thought the NCAA baseball commitee was set on creating a more georgraphic balance...at least in the regionals. At least one of the 16 should have been played up north (or midwest) and west of the Rockies.

Baseball rankings and RPI's are so random...and northern/midwest teams play their 1st 10-15 games on the road. NCAA could have easily made BC or Ohio State a #1 seed and host of a northern regional..sprinkled in with AQ's from northern colleges. Kent State, Stoneybrook, etc. have proven that these elite teams can play with SEC/ACC.

If 4 or 5 sec teams made it to CWS would all the SEC fans be saying "it was just a bad weekend(s) for the Pac 12/wac/big 12 schools"??? NOOOOPE. All we would hear about is how "dominant" the conference is compared to the rest of the inferior conferences... Well I hate to be the hater, but the SEC hosted a boat load of super regionals and regionals (huge advantage to sec teams btw). They had at least 3 or 4 CWS births teed up for them. But only mustered up 1 with Florida saving the face of the conference.
Don't make excuses when only one team makes it to cws out of all of them. I don't want to hear anymore about the number of sec teams that made it to regionals and/or hosted super regionals. The committee CHOOSES THOSE. If you threw in the same number of pac12/big12 hosting regionals like the SEC I guarantee they would be in the same boat when superregionals came around.
Facts are simple. Best 8 teams are left. You can't make the argument that those sec teams "belong" in Omaha. If they did they would be there. I respect the SEC fans because they are hands down amazing. They pack the games and they are rowdy. They always show up. That's a tough environment for any team to come into, especially in playoffs. To have all that advantage and all those teams fall short... teams just weren't as good as everyone thought

Well, I respect your opinion.

But being that you used the word 'overrated" ad nauseum, the fact remains that the teams I mentioned met their PRESEASON expectations. And the only one that was universally expected to make it to Omaha was????

Florida.

And then stuff happens, like what Lewis and Herschel mentioned.