Question for college baseball fans...

[dawgstudent]

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[Hump4Hoops]

Parity, and for different reasons in different regions.

In the SEC and the ACC, there's several really good teams having to play one another (UF, VU, USC, aTm, MSU, om are all up there, with LSU, Georgia, Alabama, and UK capable of pulling upsets)

Out west, nobody's that good. Lots of mediocre teams pulling each other down like a bucket of crabs.

In the Big 12, Texas is down and TCU is average. Tech is good but not great.

 

[57stratdawg]

There isn't one GREAT team in the SEC, but 4 very good, although UF should have a better SEC record. LSU is 50/50 on hosting a regional and Vandy isn't really in the National Seed picture.

I think the ACC is pretty similar. FSU, Miami, and Lousiville are all kind of bunch together.

Out west is total ****. I think UCSB lost another series this weekend. They're starting to flirt with having to travel for a regional. Pac12 is a mess.

 

[engie]

It's a normal season. There is a little more parity inside the sec and acc this year than the last few seasons, but is pretty normal overall

 

[WayboDawg]

It is weird that this season doesn't have at least one super team from a mid-major conference with less than 5 losses at this point. ULL, Wichita State, Cal State Fullerton, and Missouri State normally have a season like that once every 4 or 5 years.

 

[Gus Fring.sixpack]

Na....even the really good mid-majors are around 10 losses now

It is weird that this season doesn't have at least one super team from a mid-major conference with less than 5 losses at this point. ULL, Wichita State, Cal State Fullerton, and Missouri State normally have a season like that once every 4 or 5 years.

DBU and Missouri State were really good last year and they had 9 and 10, respectively, at this point.

ULL two years ago had seven...and they ended up the overall #1 seed, so that's rare.

No matter how good you are and how weak your schedule is, you're going to lose several games by May. That's just baseball.

I think you'd have to go back to one of those FSU teams with Buster Posey or maybe even that Vandy team with Price, Minor, and Alvarez to find a team with only five losses at this point.

 

[bulldogcountry1]

I think part of it is the pressure for teams to play tougher schedules. This means a few more losses for everyone at the top.

 

[JacksonTiger.sixpack]

Everyone seems to lack pitching depth to some degree, which I blame on parity. No one in the 2015 CWS had single digit losses. LSU had the fewest at 10. LSU had 9 losses before SEC tourney last year and we were essentially #1 from mid-April through our flame out in the CWS against TCU. TCU may have been single digit losses for most of last year too. Can't imagine too many teams below us in the polls had fewer losses. Vandy and Florida were double digit.

 

[wtw2400]

Theres usually not many but there usually are a few more I would say.

The thing that is so different from this season from any other season is that the West Coast doesnt have a dominat team. Everyone expects UC Santa Barbra to host becuase of their RPI and because the NCAA has to award a host to the west coast but there really is no great team. There was an article earlier this year that had the Oregon State coach wanting to schedule Mississippi State because of how low their RPI is this year in a future season. Oregon and UCLA are having down years this year and USC has done nothing since they won 12 National Titles back in the 70s.

Looking at college baseball as a whole, the national seeds are coming from the SEC and the ACC and a lot of hosts are coming from CUSA, Sun Belt, and the American teams that are from the South East. And when you look at the teams in the tournament, the majority are going to be ACC and SEC teams. Its a really weird year but weird enough that MSU can get to Omaha and win it. MSU has defeated the scariest team in baseball already.

 

[Gus Fring.sixpack]

This is year is really an anomaly for West Coast baseball

I can't remember the Pac 12 and Big West being so down, let alone in the same year.

It certainly wasn't a good year last year either but not like this.

Maybe it was a weak couple of years for California talent.