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Posted on 2/19/25 at 2:49 pm to AwgustaDawg
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Those new spring training stadiums that have been built all over Florida are incredibly nice and they are only used for baseball about 8 times a season. They are all over the state....and there is a lot to do in Florida for everyone.
Agreed..
If it was completely up to me, I would explore this idea with the tournament lasting 2 weeks..
Week 1
Top 4 Seeds = Host played just like a Regional
#1 hosts #8 #9 and #16
#2 hosts #7 #10 and #15
#3 hosts #6 #11 and #14
#4 hosts #5 #12 and #13
Double elimination of each 4 team group.
Week 2
Location TBD
Bracket A - Champions Bracket - 4 Week 1 winners - Tournament Champ
Bracket B - Runner-Ups - Good practice for likely tournament team
Bracket C - 3rd Place Teams - Good practice for teams likely on top of the bubble.
Bracket D - 4th Place Teams - Good practice for teams likely below the bubble.
Double elimination of each 4 team group.
How do you accomplish a 2 week tournament?
9 SEC Weekend Series
The rest of the schedule is unchanged
or
10 SEC Weekend Series
League play just starts 1 week earlier, thus eliminating 1 weekend against cream puffs..
Posted on 2/19/25 at 3:09 pm to BigBro
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How about the baseball tourney in Florida? Somewhere with 2-3 spring training fields close to each other?
Vero Beach and the old Dodgertown complex would be perfect. Only drawback is how far south it is. Would probably fly into/ out of Miami and drive up.
Posted on 2/19/25 at 3:26 pm to AwgustaDawg
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Those new spring training stadiums that have been built all over Florida are incredibly nice and they are only used for baseball about 8 times a season. They are all over the state....and there is a lot to do in Florida for everyone.
and that Hoover stadium really sucks compared to what the ACC is playing in in Durham. Besides the nice spring training parks in FL, there are some really nice minor league parks around the south and Hoover ain't one of them
Posted on 2/19/25 at 3:42 pm to VFL67
Nashville game outdoors in December? No thanks
Posted on 2/19/25 at 4:21 pm to BigBro
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At least we aren't Missouri or Kentucky..
That's a B1G vs SEC map too..
In reality Texas was an afterthought in the War Between the States.
The Civil War began on the MO/KS border in the mid 1850's and continued for a few years after the CSA surrendered to the Unionists. Most of you uneducated Texans don't know much of Missouri was settled by folks from the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, etc. The stretch of Missouri from KC to St Louis along the Missouri River where hemp was grown was known as Little Dixie. The CSA screwed up in the early 1860's when they failed to send troops into Missouri and Arkansas to protect their western flank.....instead the Unionists poured thousands of newly arrived Germans into Missouri.
Posted on 2/19/25 at 7:27 pm to TexasTiger08
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"The baseball tournament should always be in Birmingham."
No, and any of the people with an RV are welcome to meet me at Sonic over this. You have great baseball venues throughout the SEC footprint:
I like the idea of established sites for the conference championship game as well as the conference basketball and baseball tournaments. It's been established that the SEC football championship is decided in Atlanta each year and the SEC baseball tournament is settled in Birmingham (Hoover) each year. The SEC basketball tournament is more or less established in Nashville
All 3 of the current locations with New Orleans hosting the best non-SEC champion and/or an additional playoff game makes sense
As for the SEC baseball tournament, they tried rotating it many many years ago and it wasn't as successfully attended when they did. I'm not totally against the SEC baseball tournament moving from Hoover BUT if you're going to move it from Hoover it needs to be moved to it's new permanent home...rotating sounds nice but there is something satisfying about having an established championship or tournament venue that is permanent.
IF you move the SEC baseball tournament it should be in a setting that is unique among all conferences. Somewhere like Orange Beach, Pensacola, or even Destin. That would require brand new AA or AAA level ballparks being built by OB and Destin so Pensacola would be the most logical locations among those three.
The Pensacola Wahoos have a really nice albeit small minor league ballpark in a really cool setting. I'd love to see the owners of the stadium and the city do a major expansion of the stadium to get it in the 12k to 13k capacity and move the SEC baseball tournament there.
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