The cream rises to the top.....

[thekimmer]

SEC represented in five of eight supers. Hosting four. ACC close behind in 4 hosting 3.

Couple of awards. The winners of the 'Sometimes life throws you a bone' award is UPig who gets to host a super despite being unseeded and facing the #8 national seed Mo State because of a scheduling conflict with the minor league team with whom they share a stadium. For what its worth, I would have found a stadium I could host from rather than subjecting my team to the loud and incessant hog calling. Winners of the 'Sometimes life kicks you in the nuts' award is NC state for reasons previously discussed.

 

[57stratdawg]

Yeah I would be throwing a fit if I'm Mo State. I guess there isn't much they can do about it, but that sucks.

 

[engie]

Their own fault for not bidding to host a Super. There are countless possible stadiums around there they could have used for the weekend with any level of foresight whatsoever and the NCAA would have granted that to them. It's been known for awhile that they didn't bid for one. Neither did UCSantaBarbara, although it turns out theirs wasn't needed.

 

[1msudawg]

There are not "countless possible stadiums" around Springfield, Mo. The closest would be Joplin, and I don't think that field opens till next year. The next closest field big enough to host is most likely Baum Stadium. Ark and MoSU are maybe 2 hours a part.

 

[mstateglfr]

Their own fault for not bidding to host a Super. There are countless possible stadiums around there they could have used for the weekend with any level of foresight whatsoever and the NCAA would have granted that to them. It's been known for awhile that they didn't bid for one. Neither did UCSantaBarbara, although it turns out theirs wasn't needed.

Name em- go!

 

[engie]

There are not "countless possible stadiums" around Springfield, Mo. The closest would be Joplin, and I don't think that field opens till next year. The next closest field big enough to host is most likely Baum Stadium. Ark and MoSU are maybe 2 hours a part.

Regionals/super regionals do not have to be played in semi-pro or equivalent stadiums. Had they bothered planning this in advance they could be playing it in Busch Stadium. Or at Mizzou. Or at SeMoSt, who has been formidable several times in the past decade. I don't care if it's "further from campus" than Fayetteville. More of the alumni base is in StL than in Springfield anyway, I would imagine. Did they force Louisiana Lafayette to play their game at the semi-pro park down there?

Assuming that we were a national seed while our new stadium is being rebuilt -- would you rather play a Super Regional vs Ole Miss in Pearl or Oxford? Same deal. We would fire someone if it came to that.

 

[moturfdog]

Not quite the same, and no MoState doesn't have more alumni in St. Louis than in the Springfield area. Even though it is approx. 22,000 students MoState is basically a commuter school, think UCF or Memphis. Sports isn't that big of a deal for them. Football might avg 3000/game and that is during a good year which they haven't had in the past decade.
Went to the two games there Sunday (1) Iowa vs Oregon probably 500 in attendance on a nice afternoon and then for the home standing (2)Bears vs Iowa championship game it wasn't even a sell out, large crowd maybe 8000 but still seats to be had. Yea the locaion sucks for the team but, the NCAA did it to them; the Springfield Cardinals offered to move their game times to accommodate the Super Regional but the NCAA said they had to have the whole weekend available.
and really SeMO is a good five hours away with no good way to get there

 

[thekimmer]

8000? Sounded a bit high....

Not quite the same, and no MoState doesn't have more alumni in St. Louis than in the Springfield area. Even though it is approx. 22,000 students MoState is basically a commuter school, think UCF or Memphis. Sports isn't that big of a deal for them. Football might avg 3000/game and that is during a good year which they haven't had in the past decade.
Went to the two games there Sunday (1) Iowa vs Oregon probably 500 in attendance on a nice afternoon and then for the home standing (2)Bears vs Iowa championship game it wasn't even a sell out, large crowd maybe 8000 but still seats to be had. Yea the locaion sucks for the team but, the NCAA did it to them; the Springfield Cardinals offered to move their game times to accommodate the Super Regional but the NCAA said they had to have the whole weekend available.
and really SeMO is a good five hours away with no good way to get there

So I looked it up. They recorded 5k for game 2 and 5.6K for game 3. Still a pretty decent crowd for anybody really. The NCAA didn't do anything to them. The rules are that way on purpose. They must be able to play through weather delays etc so I can understand the NCAA's position. If it was my team I wouldn't care how far away it was or how hard to get there as long as I didn't have to play it on my opponents home field.

 

[engie]

If it was my team I wouldn't care how far away it was or how hard to get there as long as I didn't have to play it on my opponents home field.

That's what I'm trying to say. Not many places in baseball harder to play in than Baum given the circumstances either, granted they couldn't have known in advance that's where they would be...

 

[1msudawg]

Do you really expect another college to open up their stadium? Using your example would you expect oxford to open up swazie for us to host if they didnt make it? Or us to open dudy noble to help them out. Not gonna happen.

And, since there is no Pearl type stadium available to them. They are SOL. At least fayetteville is close enough for fans to get to.

Also, in this particular case, it does not matter where they play, springfield or fayetteville.. the bear fans would be greatly outnumbered in either park.