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re: SEC Baseball and Softball are insane
Posted on 4/13/21 at 11:22 am to Irons Puppet
Posted on 4/13/21 at 11:22 am to Irons Puppet
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When other leagues and area eat their own due to lack of practice, those others leagues have a chance to move up in the pecking order. We saw it in the NCAAT with all the early upsets.
The southeast and west coast will always dominate baseball because the talent migrates to schools with better weather so they can play most of the year. It has little to do with eating their own early in the season. And there really aren't a lot of upsets in college baseball either.
In the 2019 NCAAT, in the super regional round there was only 1 school (Michigan) that did not come from those areas (I'm including Oklahoma). In 2018, there as one (Minnesota). In 2017, there were zero. The polls will always be top heavy like that. The best high school baseball players from the cold-weather states typically leave to play baseball where it is warmer.
This post was edited on 4/13/21 at 11:23 am
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Posted on 4/13/21 at 11:23 am to SummerOfGeorge
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I don't think it's nearly as much that way in baseball and softball because the schedules are basically the same as they were in any regular, non-COVID year. Teams from the B12/ACC/SEC/AAC and the smaller, good leagues (Sun Belt, Atlantic Sun) have all been playing each other like they did in other years.
Football and basketball were pretty siloed off in terms of conferences and regions. Baseball and softball have been about as close to "normal" as they could be.
Don't most of the Northern Teams come south in the early spring to play games during a normal year ? I haven't seen the scores from earlier in the season, but I do not think those games happened as much this year. Now that the weather and the vaccines are available to college students, I predict those programs will do some catch up.
Posted on 4/13/21 at 11:27 am to Irons Puppet
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Don't most of the Northern Teams come south in the early spring to play games during a normal year ? I haven't seen the scores from earlier in the season, but I do not think those games happened as much this year.
The mid-majors do. A lot of them still did.
- Northeastern played at Wake Forest and Old Dominion.
- Indiana State played at Tennessee, FIU, FAU, UAB
- UConn played at UVA, Southern Miss, Myrtle Beach Tourney, Texas Tech
- Wright State played at Vanderbilt and Alabama
Really the only league that has had a "weird" baseball/softball season is the B1G. And the B1G only has 5-6 programs that truly attempt to compete at the highest level, anyway (Indiana, Ohio State, Michigan, Nebraska, Illinois).
This post was edited on 4/13/21 at 11:31 am
Posted on 4/13/21 at 11:43 am to Irons Puppet
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Don't most of the Northern Teams come south in the early spring to play games during a normal year ?
They do, but I think the point he was trying to make is the lack of practice time outside during the fall and winter leading up to the February start. Then, they have to play on the road the forst month of the season until it gets warm enough to play home games. It's definitely a major disadvantage for them, but the talent pool regardless is night and day different as well for the same reason...the best baseball players don't want to deal with that and attend schools with better baseball weather. You can look no further than the recruiting rankings. In PG's 2021 rankings, the highest ranked team that isn't on the west coast or the south + TX/Oklahoma is Notre Dame at 28, followed by Indiana at 31, Nebrska at 37, Maryland at 45, and Penn State at 50. Those big northern schools can't even recruit as well as schools like FIU, USF, and Dallas Baptist.
This post was edited on 4/13/21 at 11:47 am
Posted on 4/13/21 at 11:45 am to SummerOfGeorge
Whats insane is how we're beating up on each other....anybody in the conference can beat anybody. Every series is a possible toss up in the SEC, there isn't another conference as strong top to bottom in both bball and softball
Posted on 4/13/21 at 11:51 am to UKat
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Whats insane is how we're beating up on each other....anybody in the conference can beat anybody
That's a big reason why you'll see SEC teams hosting with 17-13 records in the conference. The committee knows how stiff the competition is in this conference. We've had conference champs win only 19 conference games. Hell, LSU was a national top 8 seed in 2014 with a 17-11-1 SEC record.
This post was edited on 4/13/21 at 11:53 am
Posted on 4/13/21 at 12:09 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Until pitching comes around, Gator baseball is ranked too high.
Posted on 4/13/21 at 1:35 pm to SummerOfGeorge
IT JUST MEANS MORE........
Posted on 4/13/21 at 1:43 pm to SummerOfGeorge
So we're a softball school now?
Posted on 4/13/21 at 1:46 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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College baseball just isn't as big a deal in those places, and amateur baseball is better and much deeper in the Sun Belt and California, as the draft shows every year.
It does feel like some areas focus on Minor League over College, while the South is the other way around.
Posted on 4/13/21 at 2:53 pm to mizslu314
A month ago we were in like 200th...this week 100th...late April 50th...mid May 25th...end of May 12th...Late June National champions!!
All going to plan.
All going to plan.
Posted on 4/13/21 at 3:29 pm to agswin
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How in the world did we get into such a mess?
Don't you think y'all should have a bit more gratitude? Isn't Childress the most accomplished aggie baseball coach in history?
Posted on 4/13/21 at 4:24 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Hogs representing well this year.
59-10 combined record
22-5 combined SEC record
59-10 combined record
22-5 combined SEC record
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