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  1. Too simplistic. I’m talking in general terms and not specific to Daly/Flores. With NIL, that should give pause to the younger guy because there is no guarantee that they’ll stay 3-4 years. The truth of the matter is equally productive will very rarely be the case because it is not only about the numbers. The veteran will more often do the little things that won’t show up on any stat sheet but that are important in the bigger picture. Not always but that’s a benefit of maturity that comes with experience.
  2. the feelings of the SEC overhype machine go back beyond 10 years. And the overhyped of the prior 10 years absolutely elevated the teams in the conference the most recent 10 years. I gave credit for improvement in the last decade. Just this season, Auburn, Arkansas and Vandy, if you go by post season results, were considerably overseeded. That’s 30%. You will not find a shittier effort from any conference at that high a clip this year. It’s not that Arkansas lost. It was the manner in which they lost. Auburn was handled in their two games. Vandy battled, but they didn’t hang a loss on their #2. A 6th place Pac12 team. All indications of not playing to your seed. Or stated otherwise, overseeded. A&M was absolutely over seeded. Congrats on them beating CSF, a team that was 3-7 in their last 10 against no tourney teams. CSF didn’t even win their conference but got in I assume because the actual winner was not eligible. Bama and UK were likely overseeded based on their post season efforts. They did win their regionals but barely put up a fight beyond that and didn’t beat anyone of note in their regional. That’s 60%. Lsu is clearly a top 5 team. UF is likely as well. Tenn played above their seeding but has significant talent. Kentucky swept Indiana State in 3 games by a total of 4 runs. Beat Indiana and Xavier in non-con. They also lost to Elon, Wright State and Louisville. That ISU team was rolling too seeing as how Northeastern swept them at home the week prior by 10 runs. Bama lost 2 of 3 to Columbia. Gave up 10+ runs twice. Lost by 12 once. Their big non-con wins were Troy x 2 and Southern Miss. Also lost to UAB. They played about 3 non-con road games. All midweekers. There’s no doubt both are good teams, but there’s not a damn thing that says they’re absolutely top 16 and deserving of hosting. And that matchup versus the 4 and playing at home are major advantages. The SEC can be the best conference and receive preferential treatment. Same as in football. And a continuation of that over time creates a greater divide. Again, that’s not the only reason, but it is one reason.
  3. It’ll be interesting. I don’t particularly like the sound of that. Also curious if say Ohio State wakes up and thinks, we can throw money to bring in talent we never have or if they just say screw it, more money for football.
  4. Is the divide between the haves and have nots going to be greater in baseball than other sport?
  5. Tis long post. Sorry. Don’t blame everyone for skipping to the end. I did just get a refresher on results. I had my years all jacked up. In the early 2000s, the SEC and ACC generally had good representation at the Cws, but they got drilled quite a bit. And the ACC didn’t win one for a long time. It is the last 10 years or so that has changed. ACC finally won shit. SEC has kinda overrun teams. They absolutely get the benefit of the doubt, but their top end results are much better now. This year. A&M with a 3 seed that was flailing at the end of the season. Actually A&M played to seed. Arkansas, Vandy did not play to their seed beaten by T-4th Big 12 and 6th PAC-12, respectively. LSU, UF, USC, Kentucky, Bama played to their seed. UTenn above seed. Auburn. Worst performance of the tourney. Kentucky, RPI kings, lost as many games to WVU and Indiana as we did but fewer wins. Ball State as a 4. Pretty easy draw. Lost 1. Got rocked by LSU next round. Likely overseeded as top 16. Bama. Beat Nicholls State in a nail biter. Troy as the 3. Then BC. 6th best record in the ACC. Tough draw? Hung with Wake for one game. Then didn’t. Likely overseeded as top 16. USC got Campbell and essentially 9th place ACC. Hung in pretty well with Florida. They were faltering late but probably top 16 and seeded well. Tenn outplayed their seed. Who did they beat though? ACC. Then Sun Belt. They did earn it. Big 12. Texas played above seed. Only team traveling coast to coast. TCU played above seed and lost to your Florida Gators because you got an out on a fly ball that was a homer 97% of the time in major league parks this year. Tech played above seed. OSU and WVU played below seed. OU to seed. Not even sure why OU got the nod over KSU. Those 3 teams playing over seed went 6-3 versus ACC/SEC. with all 3 losses to UF. OSU. Well they did lose to a team that was one of the final 6 so is that bad? ACC. Wake, UNC, NCSU, BC and Virginia played to seed. Duke played above seed but Rider did some of their work for them. Miami below seed. Texas and OU were the only teams left of center in any of these regions. PAC 12. Stanford, Washington, Oregon State to seed. Oregon above seed. Arizona below seed. Oregon was the only team to play in a regional with teams east of Ark/La. They won. Arizona only lost to teams west of Ark/La. As best I can tell of the P5 conferences, the Big 12/PAC 12 are the only two conferences that had teams finish lower in the conference standings get selected over teams higher in the conference standings. It’s gotten to the point that the western half of the US has little representation. The representation they do have is not underachieving either. It’ll probably get worse. I don’t find that good for the sport. The selections are reflected in RPI, but that’s a big circle jerk. 11 of the top 12 in RPI are ACC/SEC. The other is Indiana State. This absolutely affects hosting and seeding. We’re trending to less diversification across the country. The circle jerk is because east coast teams play east coast teams so they prop each other up. When you drill down into their non-con schedules, it’s a ton of meh. There’s no doubt some SEC teams deserve to achieve, but there’s a lot of favorable matchups and opportunities that quite simply others are not afforded. And a bit of that is this attachment at the hip with the ACC.
  6. 20 years this shit has been happening. When Texas beat Floridas ass in the final. Who was the shittiest team we played in the CWS? That’s right the Gators. While Rice, Texas and Baylor loaded up the other side. Maybe Stanford too. Gators finished ranked 2nd I believe. During the Augie era, we annihilated quite a number of SEC/ACC teams. That tide has shifted but often those SEC wins are by narrow margins now. Over representation and over seeded during this time period absolutely increased interest and ultimately now the willingness and ability to pay today. The ACCs representation on the tourney and respective titles is not good. Absolutely the SEC is better. The SEC is not overrated. Their tops of all conferences. But that’s happened in part due to the seedings/matchups over the years. When you match a #1 seeded Sec team versus a #1 seeded ACC team in the supers, there’s a significant chance one makes the CWS. The western half of the country is often less respected and has for 20 years. The tourney is good entertainment. I’m done watching. Go Gators.
  7. Like it or not the ACC and SEC have been getting preferential selections, seedings and matchups for years. That is certainly not the only reason these programs have achieved, but it is one. And it’s one that allows them to separate themselves from other conferences. Both conferences load up on wins against shitty and/or overrated smaller schools. You play in your shitty, little ball parks to load up on stats. All this has a cumulative effect. Fair is an overused term in my house. There’s a lot of greatness in the NCAA tournament, but it’s not always fair. I’m not sure it’s fair that Texas had to go about as far east one week then almost as far west the following week. Anybody else do that? Ever? Whatever year we lost to Irvine or whomever it was when game 3 ended at 1 am our time was bs. This year you, as every year, have a number of examples in which the fairness didn’t play out so well. Auburn backed up their hosting selection. Is it fair that OSU got a team that knows them as a 4 seed that actually had the ability to run it all the way to the CWS? That’s got to be one of the biggest failures in seeding history. That is impactful for the #1 seed. Most 1s get a gimme game. But you are right. They are the last two standing and earned their way to this point. I don’t like the fact that one team bought their way in. I’ll make use of my freedom and not watch the finals. That said there is only one team to hope wins.
  8. What was the rationale? Obviously offense related.
  9. That wouldn’t be surprising at that time. Probably had some major league instruction and didn’t take off in football until the Chiefs.
  10. Just checking in punks. I’m a bandwagoner sort of. Don’t post during the games or really ever here. I need to cut back on my internets rather than increase them. 162 games is a lot. But this Ranger team. They are pleasant to watch.
  11. At least that go ahead single to short was more legit than the shit Vandy pulled on us in 2014 or whenever that was.
  12. I did not. I know many will have a dollar figure that causes them to leave, but it’s hard to know what the dollar difference is. I’m not sure whether I’d jump for a $5,000 pay raise but that depends on many factors. Now $50k is a whole different story. Just reading here, I know LSU has been quite generous in their giving.
  13. Why would someone leave a place like NCState or even Bama after having a great year? Wsu and Baylor you can understand. The teams had positive seasons. The two most high profile conferences. Schedules and stadiums generally conducive to productive seasons. What else besides an NIL deal?
  14. Daly obviously reads here and knew he needed to move on. Pierce obviously doesn’t read here because he didn’t know he had to move on.
  15. He’s got kids performing in 17 different sports so forgive him for missing the past two trips.
  16. There’s nothing you can do about it. 10-12 conferences are done. 10 is ideal for my preferences but that doesn’t matter. Otherwise you have unbalanced schedules. Unbalanced schedules render conference championships flawed. These are less important as times passes. Play for the national title not the conference one. In all sports I like the non conference aspect of it. You can’t give all that up for 45 baseball games. It is what it is.
  17. You’re right about this, but any conference that doesn’t play everybody is a shitty conference. Just get on with 4 of 16 teams. Then let’s see how baseball falls out. Since peoples objectives is more eyeballs, might as well totally mimic the NFL. The current format for baseball is quite good. The selection committee not always.
  18. Yes but did see all those sub-200 hitters that we had that almost never played? There was Hoffart and his two ABs. OHara with 7. Ha, I didn’t realize Ace batted .111 but 7 RBIs in 18 ABs. Don’t include Cam though because he finished 3-6. And he was at the Mendoza line.
  19. There you go making my day. Graduates that can half ass their academics make for good players.
  20. Good to see some of you punks are SEC ready. Already on the Gator, Vol and Tiger wagon. Screw them all.
  21. Or maybe they’re facing a guy that’s been massively extended his last two weekends and their modestly hit balls are finding the holes.
  22. Maybe we should tell him he can play SS. Then done deal.
  23. Money whip him HenryJames.
  24. Borderline first round pick out of high school. Congrats to the Waco area Horn fan that was at the series this year and is friends with the family. Now your interests are fully aligned.
  25. I did get twisted up. An elite speed “player” is different than having elite speed. And maybe EK is a plus defender, but he’s not elite. His arm is not that of a plus defender. Does range make up for it? Maybe. I did not claim that Daly was forced out. More so that if that were the case, that I don’t care for that action/trend. That goes for any player growing up in any program. So I’d hope it was a mutual parting of the ways. People make decisions in their best interests. I don’t know or claim to know what those are. Some of those decisions are how important baseball is relative to education.
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