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re: Ray Tanner was accused
Posted on 6/14/22 at 10:24 am to jumpstart
Posted on 6/14/22 at 10:24 am to jumpstart
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...of bowing out of the SEC tournament early so he could rest his players for the regionals during his successful run. I am not sure it's true but it seems like a logical thing to do if you have already locked up home regional. I wonder why someone hasn't figured that out lately. Smart or do you play for the tournament title ?
I did the math once, I can't remember what the total was, but we won like twice as many CWS games as we did SEC-T games under his tenure.
I don't know if there's any actual data to back up the strategy though.
Some our non SEC-T winning teams bowed out early in the NCAA-T, some won the whole damn thing.
The one year we did win the SEC-T, 2004, we made it to the CWS and went 3-2 overall - both our losses to eventual champ Cal State Fullerton. Plenty of SEC-T winning teams have also made deep runs.
This post was edited on 6/14/22 at 10:25 am
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Posted on 6/14/22 at 11:33 am to theGarnetWay
Paul Mainieri used to love proving the converse: blow all of LSU's pitching winning the SEC-T, get a national seed, then lose at home before getting to Omaha.
Posted on 6/14/22 at 12:46 pm to theGarnetWay
I watched the no question absolute best team last year win every series and the sec tournament. Lost in the supers while the eventual national championship got run ruled in the sec tournament. Watched the best team do the same thing this year. Hoping for the same results as last year. (A team(hogs) go 0-2 in conference tourny just to win the whole thing!)
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