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Posted on 5/30/18 at 8:37 pm to lsu711
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West Coast schools can’t travel to southern states not named Louisiana, so LSU has to travel to Oregon? That makes no sense.
LSU is going out there because ESPN wants eyes on the TVs for those 9pm start times. A 1-0 game between Oregon State and UC Irvine doesn’t get it done.
Sorry to burst your bubble. If you will look at the bracket, you'll see that they arranged things such that the brackets hosted by Stanford and Oregon State, and the regions they are paired with, don't involve the states on the banned list. They sent LSU to Corvallis because if the Tigers win, and if UCLA wins, they could send UCLA to Baton Rouge without any problem (but not to Texas, North Carolina, or Mississippi). Baylor got sent to Stanford because, while Washington (at the paired Coastal Carolina regional) can't travel to North Carolina or Mississippi, they can travel to Texas.
The preoccupation with placating the leftist state schools probably accounts for the committee forgetting that both Vandy and St. Johns appeared in the Clemson regional last year--they were too busy with this other crap to notice something which, in previous years, would have been noticed and easily remedied (but not so much with all these limitations).
Posted on 5/31/18 at 12:21 am to twk
Coastal is in South Carolina.
Posted on 5/31/18 at 12:23 am to dcbl
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should Ole Miss be concerned that Cal will welsh on the return trip in 2019?
to my understanding, contracts for games and previously scheduled events already in place prior to the travel ban will still be honored.
Posted on 5/31/18 at 7:53 am to LCLa
quote:Yes, which is why it was OK to pair that regional with Stanford. It's also not Stanford that is the problem in the Stanford regional, it's Cal State-Fullerton. The committee planned for a contingency where CSF would win that regional, and Conway was an acceptable destination for the Titans in a super regional since South Carolina (unlike North Carolina) is not on the list for either California or Washington.
Coastal is in South Carolina.
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