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Is winning the SEC baseball championship more of an accomplishment than a Natty in Omahah?
Posted on 5/24/24 at 9:49 am
Posted on 5/24/24 at 9:49 am
I think so.
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Posted on 5/24/24 at 9:56 am to Turnblad85
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I think so.
Stop thinking.
Posted on 5/24/24 at 9:57 am to Turnblad85
quote:Could have fooled me
I think
Posted on 5/24/24 at 10:07 am to Turnblad85
I think baseball is the most difficult national championship to win.
Longer regular season than other sports.
Five weekends of postseason.
The game lends itself to craziness. A 7+ ERA pitcher can have the night of his life and shut down an elite hitting team.
Fresno State and Coastal Carolina have national championships over the past 15 years. Ole Miss was the last team in the tournament in '22 and won it. Only one No. 1 overall seed has ever won the natty and that was '99 - the first year of the format.
An argument could be made that its tougher to win 22-24 SEC games out of 30.
Longer regular season than other sports.
Five weekends of postseason.
The game lends itself to craziness. A 7+ ERA pitcher can have the night of his life and shut down an elite hitting team.
Fresno State and Coastal Carolina have national championships over the past 15 years. Ole Miss was the last team in the tournament in '22 and won it. Only one No. 1 overall seed has ever won the natty and that was '99 - the first year of the format.
An argument could be made that its tougher to win 22-24 SEC games out of 30.
Posted on 5/24/24 at 10:10 am to Turnblad85
Stahp! 
Posted on 5/24/24 at 10:13 am to anc
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An argument could be made that its tougher to win 22-24 SEC games out of 30.
This. Vanderbilt’s 2013 26-3 will be almost impossible to beat under our current SEC landscape.
Posted on 5/24/24 at 10:17 am to Vandyrone
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Vanderbilt’s 2013 26-3
Damn you. We had a team that year that would win the regular season 95% of the time 57-11 (23-7 SEC), only for y’all to go nuts.
What really sucks is we didn’t play each other.
This post was edited on 5/24/24 at 10:34 am
Posted on 5/24/24 at 10:17 am to Turnblad85
The SEC tourney doesn't matter but it's fun to win.
Posted on 5/24/24 at 10:18 am to Turnblad85
No, but it sure feels good.
Posted on 5/24/24 at 10:21 am to Tarpon08
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Stop thinking.
I agree with Tampon8.
Posted on 5/24/24 at 10:24 am to Turnblad85
Rarely, a really special team comes along and wins all 3 (regular season, tournament, CWS).
2009 LSU
2019 Vanderbilt
2009 LSU
2019 Vanderbilt
Posted on 5/24/24 at 10:26 am to jcaz
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The SEC tourney doesn't matter but it's fun to win
It matters if you didn’t take care of business in the regular season.
If you have a host site locked down, you go in and give your pitchers some work, but protect their arms. Give some lesser used bullpen arms some experience Let your position players have fun.
Posted on 5/24/24 at 10:31 am to Turnblad85
I’ve seen LSU win 12 SEC tournaments and 7 national championships. It’s not
Posted on 5/24/24 at 10:41 am to jcaz
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The SEC tourney doesn't matter but it's fun to win.
Thats sorta my point. Very little creedence is given to teams that win the SEC and all the glory goes to the natty. But winning the SEC is more harder than anything in Omaha. My question wasn't about which is given more respect.
Posted on 5/24/24 at 10:44 am to hirematthouse
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I’ve seen LSU win 12 SEC tournaments and 7 national championships. It’s not
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Posted on 5/24/24 at 10:45 am to anc
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I think baseball is the most difficult national championship to win.
Fresno State and Coastal Carolina have national championships over the past 15 years.
Wouldn't that make it easier to win if teams like Fresno & Costal can win it?
Never in a million years are G5 schools winning a football postseason.
I think the randomness is baseball causes this.
Posted on 5/24/24 at 10:48 am to Turnblad85
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But winning the SEC is more harder than anything in Omaha
no it isn't.
the teams that already have locked up National seeds to play their first games the same way they would in Omaha because winning it isn't a necessity.
so they use those games more like midweek games. get your guys some work, but also get guys some rest.
in Omaha, everybody plays every game like it might be your last.
Posted on 5/24/24 at 10:53 am to upgrade
quote:That was a scheduling travesty. Wife’s a Vandy grad and would have loved to going to that series.
What really sucks is we didn’t play each other.
Posted on 5/24/24 at 10:54 am to Farmer1906
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Wouldn't that make it easier to win if teams like Fresno & Costal can win it?
Never in a million years are G5 schools winning a football postseason.
no, that makes it harder because anyone can beat you on a given night.
baseball is ridiculously random.
you can square up every pitch, but hit them all on a line dead at an infielder and end up o-fer on the night.
or you can nub a couple dribblers off the end of the bat and got 2 for 3.
Posted on 5/24/24 at 12:40 pm to anc
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I think baseball is the most difficult national championship to win.
To give a firm answer, no. But I’ll add that it’s relative*
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Longer regular season than other sports. Five weekends of postseason. The game lends itself to craziness. A 7+ ERA pitcher can have the night of his life and shut down an elite hitting team. Fresno State and Coastal Carolina have national championships over the past 15 years. Ole Miss was the last team in the tournament in '22 and won it. Only one No. 1 overall seed has ever won the natty and that was '99 - the first year of the format. An argument could be made that its tougher to win 22-24 SEC games out of 30.
I think your argument is that far more teams have an opportunity to win the championship, therefore being a top seed isn’t as big a predictor.
On the contrary, comparing any random “good” ncaa football teams chances to a baseball teams - see Florida State this year, who had no chance despite going undefeated.
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