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1 minute ago, jdhorn92 said:

Pepperdine and CSFU were always salty from what i remember back in the day.  

Dirtbags of LBSU too! Fullerton was straight up nearing blueblood territory.

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Few notes from the D1 Chat.   Last comment,  when Kendall starts doubting you know things are serious.    I do think with their starting pitching aggy can make a comeback (hope not).

 

 

 

 

How many of Florida, Texas A&M, and Virginia make the field of 64, and could any of them get back into the hosting discussion?

This feels like the biggest question of the first six weeks of the season: are these teams all toast? I know I'm a broken record early in the season, when I try to exercise as much patience as possible -- but after six weeks, teams are starting to become who they actually are. That said, every year we see teams that look dead after six weeks go on to rise from the ashes and make it to regionals, or to Omaha, or even win it all (see: Ole Miss 2022, UVa 2015). So I am STILL not writing off any of these teams, and I think at least two of the three will still be in regionals (my level of confidence in them over the long haul is UVa, then Florida, then A&M).

 

What a weekend of baseball in Austin. What impressed you the most about Texas this weekend in that series win over LSU? Also, really felt like we were seeing a future Friday night SEC matchup with Evans and Volantis both dealing at the same time Sunday. You agree?

BT - You know, I kind of like the way you view the latter in this series. That's a fantastic point. I'm just so impressed with Volantis' poise and overall stuff and approach. He's like a 25 year old in an 18 year old's body. It's ultra impressive. I think the biggest thing that stood out to me was just the sheer # of fantastic at bats by Texas the final two days of the series. Schloss' Horns MADE LSU throw strikes, and that paid dividends. Obviously, Riojas was pretty special throughout the weekend. The Texas bullpen doesn't have a massive margin for error, but I really do love everything else about this squad.

What exactly should we make of the mid-week games, particularly the upsets?  For RPI they all count the same, but you guys don't seem to consider them as much for ranking purposes, and it sometimes feels like the coaches/teams themselves don't even take them quite as seriously as a proper weekend series..

Yeah they just aren't as important as weekend games — but that doesn't mean they are irrelevant. They are a piece of the pie, and as you point out, the RPI treats all games the same. Plenty of teams have built their postseason resumés on the strength of midweek excellence against quality competition. But ultimately our game is about winning weekend series, and that's what we will always value most.

 

Guys is Texas better then we thought or is Lsu not as Deep in Depth as we thought they were ?   Awesome job always fellas Thanks.

I think some of my colleagues are less excited about the length of the LSU lineup, and perhaps have some questions about the bullpen. Personally, I don't really share those concerns -- I like the lineup depth just fine, and there's so much talent in that bullpen, I expect it to get better and better in the second half as some of those exciting young arms really come into their own. Credit Texas -- I do think the Horns are better than I gave them credit for (speaking only for myself).

 

Of the three 0-6 SEC teams, which one stands the best chance to make it to NCAA Regional action?

 I think it's the Gators. They'll get healthier eventually, and in the meantime, at least they're not below .500 overall like A&M is, somehow. At 18-8, Florida is starting from a better position here. I still think the Gators will find a way to get to at least 13 or 14 SEC wins. Lot of work to do, and it needs to start now, but they are better than this.

What's wrong with Texas A&M and Florida?

Eric -- Both teams have some injuries, but it's abundantly clear that Florida has very limited, reliable options, at this point, outside of Peterson, King and maybe a couple of others. The talent is there for sure, but the proof is in the pudding as they say. As for A&M, 49 strikeouts in a three-game series is only acceptable if Paul Skenes is pitching all three games of the series for the other team. The starting pitching continues to get it done for A&M.

 

Rice won a game on the road to open conference play. The boys look happier, more free and Pierce is beaming and this is before the win. Do you think Pierce can really turn things around?

I don't think DP is totally flipping the script this spring, but I think he can set the foundation for a much better Rice program moving forward. It looked like the Owls (Rice) actually played much better overall against a good FAU team over the weekend.

This is going to be considered a soft take, but Earley. Yes coaches get paid a lot, yes coaching is brutal, etc. etc. But he is such a nice guy it seems with a lovely family and young children...just hate what is happening in College Station. Could this rough start end a head coaching career that just started? In real numbers (terms of wins and losses) what will it take for him to keep his job?

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I have a great relationship with Mike, but it's also our job to be honest. I do think if A&M fails to make the NCAA tournament and stinks down the stretch, they will cut bait after a season. That's my educated take at this point. With that said, there is a VERY long way to go to get to that point. I'm not throwing the towel in on those guys just yet. That's just foolish at this stage
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As an honest observer, they really need to give Earley two seasons to get his program going. Even though they are having a pretty terrible season, you have to give the guy some time to succeed. You had to know that hiring a first time coach was going to be a risk and a bit of a project. I think it will set their program back further to cut bait after one season and it would be an incredibly scummy move. 

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15 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

As an honest observer, they really need to give Earley two seasons to get his program going. Even though they are having a pretty terrible season, you have to give the guy some time to succeed. You had to know that hiring a first time coach was going to be a risk and a bit of a project. I think it will set their program back further to cut bait after one season and it would be an incredibly scummy move. 

More scummy than paying Jimbo’s fully guaranteed contract of 75+ million?

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1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

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As shown here, Texas leap frogs UTRGV for the first time this season, with Texas moving up to 14 and Los Vaqueros down to 15. Tennessee remains a #1. Xavier is a wild outlier at #5 despite double digit losses (that early season #1 SOS and #2 nonconference SOS is likely doing the work for them there). SEC has 9 of the top 15. My wife's alma mater, Troy, moves into the top 10. And just for shits and giggles, you have to scroll down quite a bit to find the Texas A&M fighting Aggies down at #113. Only our next opponent, Missouri, at #206 keeps them from being the bottom dweller of the SEC.

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Updated Rankings through 3/24

 

Baseball America 

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/college-baseball-top-25-rankings/

D1 Baseball

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d1/d1baseballcom-top-25

NCBWA

https://www.sportswriters.net/ncbwa/news/2025/03/17/tennessee-20-0-tops-ncbwa-division-i-poll

USA Today Coaches Poll 

https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/baseball/cbb/coaches-poll

Tennessee is #1 in 3/4 polls. Arkansas jumps to #1 in the NCBWA poll 

 

Texas in the order listed above is

3 (up from 5)

7 (up from 8 )

7 (up from 9)

7 (no change. High/low rankings 7/14)

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I forgot about these.  The Athletic weekly write-up:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6225601/2025/03/24/college-baseball-texas-am-florida-virginia/

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College baseball week in review: Time to panic at Texas A&M, Florida and Virginia?

By Mitch Light

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March 24, 2025 7:45 am CDT

Texas A&M and Florida were ranked No. 1 and No. 6, respectively, in The Athletic’s preseason top 25. After two weeks of league play, the two teams are a combined 1-11* in the SEC.

Florida no doubt has some issues, but its slow start can be attributed, in part, to pitching injuries and a brutal schedule that included series against Tennessee (road) and Georgia (home).

Lefty Pierce Coppola was terrific in his first three starts but has missed the last three weekends due to an injury. And Liam Peterson, the Gators’ Friday night starter, did not pitch against Georgia due to “general soreness,” according to Jacob Rudner of Baseball America.

In their absence, the Gators struggled to get quality starts against the Bulldogs’ potent offense. The three starters — Aidan King, Billy Barlow and Jake Clemente — combined to give up 18 hits and 15 earned runs in only nine innings.

Florida, which is 18-8 overall, hosts Florida State on Tuesday and then heads to Oxford to take on Ole Miss.

Texas A&M’s situation appears to be far more dire. The Aggies, under first-year coach Michael Earley, are 11-12 overall and 0-6 in the league after getting swept by Alabama (home) and Vanderbilt (road). The starting pitching has been very good, but the offense — which is dealing with a few key injuries — has been anemic. A&M ranks last in the SEC in batting (.257), on-base percentage (.368) and runs scored (146) and 15th in slugging (.431). In three games against Vanderbilt, Texas A&M batters struck out 49 times.

Meanwhile, former Aggies coach Jim Schlossnagle is 19-3 overall and 5-1 in the SEC in his first season at rival Texas.

Over in the ACC, there is another national power off to a surprisingly slow start. Virginia, ranked No. 3 in the preseason, is 12-10 overall and 3-6 in the ACC. And unlike Florida and Texas A&M, the Cavaliers can’t blame the schedule. They have played home series against Boston College and Duke and a road series at Cal — three solid but unranked teams.

“I am obviously not succeeding about getting our players ready to play every day and play tough, competitive baseball up to the Virginia baseball standards, so that is on me,” coach Brian O’Connor said after a 6-2 loss to Richmond on Wednesday.

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Georgia scored 40 runs in its weekend sweep over Florida and ranks first nationally with 269 runs in 26 games — one year after losing Charlie Condon, the 2024 winner of the Golden Spikes Award.

Wes Johnson and his staff reloaded through the transfer portal and found a gem in Ryland Zaborowski, a senior DH who is on his third team in five seasons. The Arizona native hit .305 with 10 home runs and 45 RBIs last year at Miami (Ohio), solid numbers but hardly anything to suggest he would star in the SEC. Well, in 23 games at Georgia, Zaborowski is hitting .467 with 14 home runs and 48 RBIs and leads the nation with a 1.708 OPS.

We had quite an eventful set of midweek games, with seven top 25 teams — including three of the top six — dropping a nonconference game. The headliner was ETSU handing top-ranked Tennessee its first loss of the season, 7-6 in extra innings on Tuesday. Yes, it was a huge upset, but this was no major fluke. The Buccaneers are 18-5 after taking two of three from Samford over the weekend. Elsewhere:

No. 4 Florida State lost to Mercer

No. 6 Texas lost to UTSA

No. 14 Wake Forest lost at Liberty

No. 17 Dallas Baptist lost to TCU

No. 20 Virginia lost to Richmond

No. 21 Ole Miss lost to No. 23 Southern Miss

In their first matchup as SEC rivals, Texas took two of three from LSU in Austin.

All-America outfielder Max Belyeu was the star for the Longhorns on Sunday, going 2-for-4 with a home run and a triple. He is hitting .348 with five home runs and 18 RBIs. Dylan Volantis was brilliant out of the pen, throwing 3.1 innings of no-hit ball to pick up his fifth save.

LSU saw its 17-game winning streak snapped on Saturday night. The Tigers host Mississippi State next weekend, while Texas visits Missouri.

Georgia Tech improved to 20-4 overall and 7-2 in the ACC with a weekend sweep at Notre Dame by a combined score of 37-14. Shortstop Kyle Lodise went 4-for-5 with three home runs in Friday’s 18-7 win and 3-for-5 with a home run in Saturday’s 9-5 win.

Lodise, a first-year transfer from Division II Augusta (Ga.) University, is hitting .371 with a team-high nine home runs. Center fielder Drew Burress, the 2024 national freshman of the year, is hitting .340 with eight home runs.

The Yellow Jackets’ schedule is about to toughen up considerably, starting with a home series against Clemson followed by a trip to ACC newcomer Stanford.

UCLA and Oregon are both 7-2 after their first three series in the Big Ten. UCLA has played at Maryland and hosted Nebraska and Indiana. Oregon, meanwhile, has yet to leave the West Coast; the Ducks swept USC on the road and then won two of three against both Minnesota and Rutgers in Eugene.

Iowa, too, is 7-2 in league play after sweeping Ohio State in Iowa City. The Hawkeyes will make one trip to the West Coast, an early May series at Washington.

Nebraska, one of the league favorites in the preseason, is 2-7 in the Big Ten after going a combined 1-5 in consecutive weekends at UCLA (0-3) and USC (1-2). The Cornhuskers stayed on the West Coast between the two series and swept Pepperdine in a two-game midweek set.

On Tuesday, Nebraska caught Pepperdine with the hidden ball trick in the third inning of a 9-6 win.

Arizona took two of three at West Virginia in a key early-season Big 12 series. The Wildcats won the opener 6-4 in 16 innings, dropped the second game 11-3 and won the finale 11-4.

Arizona has won 18 of its last 20 games and is tied with Kansas State atop the league standings at 5-1.

Kansas State swept Utah in Manhattan to open league play and then won two of three at Baylor over the weekend. The Cats are 14-4 since starting the season with one win in their first five games.

Cincinnati, which won a series at Duke on the opening weekend of the season, is 12-11 overall and 1-5 in the Big 12.

Cal made some history this weekend, and it had nothing to do with its first season playing in the ACC. The Bears swept Stanford at Sunken Diamond for the first time in school history. Cal had dropped its first two ACC series — at Virginia and vs. Duke — but is now 5-4 in the league after the weekend sweep.

The Cardinal had been rolling, with series wins over North Carolina and Duke to open their league slate. Freshman slugger Rintaro Sasaki, who hit three home runs last weekend against Duke, went 4-for-12 with one home run in the three games against Cal. He is hitting .337 with four home runs and 24 RBIs.

And finally

• UC Irvine swept UCSB on the road in a crucial early-season Big West showdown. On Friday night, the Anteaters scored three earned runs in six innings off All-America pitcher Tyler Bremner. On Saturday, they touched up Jackson Flora for five earned runs in 3.1 innings. UC Irvine is 17-5 overall and 8-1 in league play. UCSB, which lost two of three at Hawaii two weeks ago, dropped to 4-5 in the Big West.

• Virginia Tech picked up a nice series win over Louisville, winning the rubber match 11-4 on Sunday afternoon in Blacksburg. It was career win No. 600 for Hokies coach John Szefc. Tech is 16-8 overall and 4-5 in the ACC.

• North Carolina’s Aidan Haugh came one out shy of a seven-inning no-hitter in the Tar Heels’ 10-0 win at Boston College on Sunday. His final line: one hit, no runs, one walk and 11 strikeouts in seven innings.

• UTRGV was the first team to 10 conference wins. The Vaqueros are 17-5 overall and 10-2 in the Southland Conference.

• Two weeks into league play, Auburn is halfway to its SEC win total from last season. The Tigers improved to 19-5 overall and 4-2 in the league by taking two of three at Kentucky. A year ago, Auburn went 8-22 in the SEC and was one of two teams that didn’t qualify for the league tournament.

• Clemson rallied from a 6-0 deficit to walk off Wake Forest 7-6 on Sunday, scoring the winning run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth. It was a painful loss for the Demon Deacons, who missed an opportunity to record a road series win against a top-10 team.

• Yale freshman Jack Ohman has yet to allow an earned run in 25.1 innings of work. He has allowed 16 hits and has 30 strikeouts and seven walks.

*0-12, dumbass

Pretty wild that was Cal's first sweep ever at Sunken Diamond

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6 minutes ago, zlavydra said:

Mizzou State up 14-13 against yellow cap wearing Arkie, bottom 10.

Down goes Pig! 14-13.

Kentucky losses to RPI powerhouse Xavier.

Florida loses to FSU.

South Carolina lost to North Carolina.

Pretty decent night in the SEC.

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2 hours ago, chase25 said:

Going to have to watch that Arky game. Missouri State scored 5 in the top of the 9th to tie it at 13

 
Final/10
 
 
R H E
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Missouri State
(11-12, 3-0 Missouri Valley)
14 14 0
 
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2 Arkansas
(23-3, 5-1 SEC)
13 16 2
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
MOST 0 1 2 1 2 1 1 0 5 1 14 14 0
ARK 0 0 0 5 3 4 0 1 0 0 13 16 2
Baum Stadium (Fayetteville, AR)
 
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13 hours ago, NBHorn7 said:
 
Final/10
 
 
R H E
 
  •  
Missouri State
(11-12, 3-0 Missouri Valley)
14 14 0
 
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2 Arkansas
(23-3, 5-1 SEC)
13 16 2
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
MOST 0 1 2 1 2 1 1 0 5 1 14 14 0
ARK 0 0 0 5 3 4 0 1 0 0 13 16 2
Baum Stadium (Fayetteville, AR)
 

Arkansas really enjoys dropping fly balls that lose them games, I guess.

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25 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

Very confused by Manhattan's jerseys which say The Bronx on them

The location of the campus is in the Bronx. Moved there in 1922.

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2 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

Are they nicknamed the Queens?

 
Final
 
 
R H E
 
  •  
Queens
(4-19, 2-4 ASUN)
3 5 0
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Tennessee
(23-2, 5-1 SEC)
14 12 2
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
QUC 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 0
TN 1 1 0 0 6 4 0 2 X 14 12 2

No, Tennessee beat Queens last night.

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Seeing bases of color has triggered Helo.

So the orange base only counts for going to first? After that it is the white base? I don't know, that seems confusing especially as you are feeling the base with your foot.

But whatever, we will all be used to it eventually I guess.

Course I might be singing a different tune if this ever screws us. HOW THE FUCK DO YOU GET PICKED OFF (the wrong) FIRST BASE?

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22 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Seeing bases of color has triggered Helo.

So the orange base only counts for going to first? After that it is the white base? I don't know, that seems confusing especially as you are feeling the base with your foot.

But whatever, we will all be used to it eventually I guess.

Course I might be singing a different tune if this ever screws us. HOW THE FUCK DO YOU GET PICKED OFF (the wrong) FIRST BASE?

The only good point jomboy brought up is that both bases should be the same color, and be extensions of each other. There’s zero reason for different rules for each base.

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3 hours ago, Helobious said:

The only good point jomboy brought up is that both bases should be the same color, and be extensions of each other. There’s zero reason for different rules for each base.

There are some pretty good reasons for treating them differently unless you think a ground ball passing over the outside one should be a fair ball. 

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3 hours ago, Helobious said:

The only good point jomboy brought up is that both bases should be the same color, and be extensions of each other. There’s zero reason for different rules for each base.

First base has literally been treated different for an eternity, it's the only base you can run through and still be safe. The outside bag serves a single purpose, to run through, it's then not a base anymore, just like you can't run past it anymore, it's just a regular base. It actually makes sense that it's a different color so that it's clear which base is the base and which is no longer a base.

Really not that hard, like at all, to coach and understand. How dare they try and protect ankles, so fucking woke. Fucking idiot.

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On 3/25/2025 at 11:09 PM, TheBryMan81 said:

UTRGV scores 2 in the top 9th to make it close, but ultimately falls to TCU 4-3

My son was the last out. Love the game, but man that sorta thing is just brutal sometimes. Baseball players and field goal kickers... gotta leave that last one in the rear view mirror and not look back.

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4 hours ago, 'stache said:

First base has literally been treated different for an eternity, it's the only base you can run through and still be safe. The outside bag serves a single purpose, to run through, it's then not a base anymore, just like you can't run past it anymore, it's just a regular base. It actually makes sense that it's a different color so that it's clear which base is the base and which is no longer a base.

Really not that hard, like at all, to coach and understand. How dare they try and protect ankles, so fucking woke. Fucking idiot.

What about for defense. I thought I saw a first baseman take a throw on a dropped third strike on the red, green, orange, whatever hue it was for a putout.

I had never thought about that before, is that legal?

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20 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

What about for defense. I thought I saw a first baseman take a throw on a dropped third strike on the red, green, orange, whatever hue it was for a putout.

I had never thought about that before, is that legal?

Good question, I looked it up. Out.

 

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24 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

What about for defense. I thought I saw a first baseman take a throw on a dropped third strike on the red, green, orange, whatever hue it was for a putout.

I had never thought about that before, is that legal?

Yes and then the runner goes to the white bag

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