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26 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

That UGA sweep isn't looking so good at this point.

At this point, it's looking like something we should have done, and we did.

It is not our fault when the SEC cannibalizes itself after we win a series against a team.  Just like in football. 

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Also Georgia rode high early because their first 3 series were Kentucky, Auburn and Florida, before getting swept by Texas (no shame in that, we are leading the league), winning 2/3 versus Arky (nice bounceback) and getting swept at Vandy (5th in the league).

OU is 6th in the league, they ain't no slouch. 

Teams will just feed on the Kentucky, aggy, Mizzou, Auburn, Florida, South Carolina, MSST portions of their schedule.  

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Santa Clara ended up sucking. The pitcher who more or less shut us down in the Sunday game pitched well against the Beavers and shut out USF (not So. Florida), but hasn't been too great otherwise.

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52 minutes ago, Js1 said:

It is not our fault when the SEC cannibalizes itself after we win a series against a team.  Just like in football. 

Much like SEC football, I am of the opinion that SEC baseball's reputation is a bit overinflated, and the conference benefits from those lingering high rankings as the season goes along.

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

Much like SEC football, I am of the opinion that SEC baseball's reputation is a bit overinflated, and the conference benefits from those lingering high rankings as the season goes along.

Not near as many mid to upper 90s fastball guys as were anticipated.  And I think LSUs guys like that were transfers.  Ruger/Sanders - transfers.  Not near as much power either.

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I haven't seen some giant gulf of an increase in talent and quality teams from the Big 12 to the SEC.  It's there, but much like JJ said, the magnitude is bigly inflated by the propaganda machine built to constantly inflate it.

Now, having said that, with us and OU out of that conference I do believe that gulf has widened significantly.

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2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Much like SEC football, I am of the opinion that SEC baseball's reputation is a bit overinflated, and the conference benefits from those lingering high rankings as the season goes along.

5 different SEC schools have won the last 5 national titles. The gap between the ACC is definitely exaggerated as it is comparable, but the gap between the ACC/SEC and the rest is noticeable. 

I might be a little off because I did this awhile ago out of curiosity but since 1990 the SEC has had a member play for the national title in something like 23 of the last 34 years

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In the big 12 you can easily lose a series to an unranked team because even the decent teams are unranked or lowly ranked. Or win that series and get a lot of so what. 
that same caliber of team in the sec may be rated 8 like Auburn when we played them so winning that series looks better and losing it wouldn’t look as bad.  So many ranked sec teams that it had the inertia of nobody drops out unless they can aggy it up, and look what it took for them to make their way from 1 to UR- losing to non-con and get swept at home plus lose a series to an unranked Kentucky.  

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