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The most difficult title defenses in college sports?
Posted on 5/23/15 at 7:53 pm
Posted on 5/23/15 at 7:53 pm
While thinking about Vandy's chances of defending its national title in baseball, I realized that I didn't feel overly optimistic, not because I don't have faith in our team, but because it feels to me like the road to defending a baseball title seems longer and harder and filled with more landmines than other sports.
So I was wondering which national titles people here think are the toughest to defend, and why?
So I was wondering which national titles people here think are the toughest to defend, and why?
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Posted on 5/23/15 at 7:56 pm to randomways
Baseball for sure.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 7:56 pm to randomways
Women's Bowling
Vandy should know how hard that is.
Vandy should know how hard that is.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 7:59 pm to randomways
Football. Motivation is more difficult once you win a title. In basketball and baseball you can have some letdowns the next year and still make it to the title game. Just one letdown in football, and you're not likely to make it.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:00 pm to randomways
trolling title.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:07 pm to randomways
With how large the basketball and baseball bracket are it sure makes both of them much harder
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:09 pm to BowlJackson
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Women's Bowling
Vandy should know how hard that is.
We'd defend that just fine if that Sobchak bitch would quit whining about the whole shomer shabbos thing.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:09 pm to BowlJackson
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Women's Bowling
Vandy should know how hard that is.
Indeed, that one is quite difficult for anyone but Nebraska or UMES.
This post was edited on 5/23/15 at 8:13 pm
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:10 pm to randomways
Baseball - if they so much as throw a biscuit at you as a Junior, you have to go. It's your only leverage (as in going back to school or not).
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:10 pm to randomways
Basketball. You have to win 6 in a row in a single elimination tournament. And you'll likely be gutted by the draft after you win it as all players are eligible.
Baseball is difficult due to the parity of college baseball but the entire tournament is double elimination.
Baseball is difficult due to the parity of college baseball but the entire tournament is double elimination.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:11 pm to randomways
I gotta go men's basketball here. I mean Kentucky just went undefeated then didn't
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:11 pm to randomways
In the last 25 years, baseball has had 3 sets of repeat champions (USC, Oregon State, and LSU).
Football has had 2 sets in the same time frame (Nebraska and Bama).
Basketball also had 2 sets (Florida and Duke)
Football has had 2 sets in the same time frame (Nebraska and Bama).
Basketball also had 2 sets (Florida and Duke)
This post was edited on 5/23/15 at 8:17 pm
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:15 pm to randomways
Didn't LSU win like five titles in a row during the '90s? I also remember Oregon State and South Carolina repeating in recent years. It's not baseball. It has to be basketball. The '91 and '92 Duke Blue Devils and '06, '07 Gators are the only teams to repeat as national champions since Wooden's UCLA teams. It's extremely to repeat as champions in basketball due to all the turnover after a successful run. Championship caliber teams rarely stay together for two or three years like they do in other sports.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:22 pm to randomways
Fulmer Cup
This post was edited on 5/23/15 at 8:23 pm
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:23 pm to Bench McElroy
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Didn't LSU win like five titles in a row
No, 5 in 10 years.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:24 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
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Basketball. You have to win 6 in a row in a single elimination tournament. And you'll likely be gutted by the draft after you win it as all players are eligible.
Baseball is difficult due to the parity of college baseball but the entire tournament is double elimination.
This. You can lose up to 4 games in the college baseball postseason and still win the title. College is one and done from the beginning.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:27 pm to randomways
Football. Check the records, it is a one and done sport. Try that for pressure.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 8:55 pm to nc14
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Football. Check the records, it is a one and done sport. Try that for pressure.
Lsu can win a NC by losing two games
Posted on 5/23/15 at 9:04 pm to randomways
Hoops, no doubt.
Posted on 5/23/15 at 9:06 pm to Farmer1906
There's what, 350 D1 basketball teams?
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