re: The NCAA Baseball regional hosts will be... (UPDATED 5/23)

I think part of it is the fact that the west coast teams have much weaker SOS. Most teams try to play a big series every year. UCLA got lucky with Georgia Tech and East Carolina being good, but Stanford got Texas, who sucked, and Oregon State traveled to Arizona for their first 8 games. Playing 4 against Nebraska ended up being out.

But look at mid week games. No good teams are traveling and its all local, and the west coast sucks right now. Fullerton, Long Beach, Pepperdine...all historically good teams....they suck right now. While Georgia can play Georgia Tech three times and Clemson twice. Even playing teams like Texas State, Louisiana Tech, Georgia Southern are better midweek games than what is in the west.

It also doesnt help that the Pac is always 3-4 teams and no one else.

Basically, the west coast, midwest, and east coast get graded on a curve unlike the SEC, ACC, and Big 12.


Edit:Illinois had double digit Q1 wins and was around 20-22 in RPI before the Big 10 Tournament. If they would have won it, or have at least gotten far, they would have hosted, but they went 0-2 and are now 28th in RPI.

Its all about growing the game everywhere thats not the south.