So was the SEC overrated?

[thekimmer]

Started out putting up a big fat goose egg in t he opening round despite 5 host sites. Now 1-7 with three teams facing elimination and only one playing for the CWS tonite. Pretty ugly.

 

[tatedog]

Hard to overlook an entire season based on the results of a few 2/3 series. If this were the NBA the Oklahoma City Thunder would be your world champions.

 

[patdog]

It was. But only because it was rated so insanely high.

 

[57stratdawg]

It was definitely top heavy. I didnt think South Car was a Omaha caliber team after about the halfway point in conference play.

 

[11thEagleFan]

The SEC as a whole, yes. The top teams, probably not. MSU just ran into a white hot Arizona team. I think the postseason so far confirms what we all knew. Good teams from the South or from the West Coast can beat anybody else in the country.

 

[thekimmer]

True, but I think the SEC was weighted too heavily this season....

Hard to overlook an entire season based on the results of a few 2/3 series. If this were the NBA the Oklahoma City Thunder would be your world champions.

Most of the SEC top tier's resume's were padded by a poorer than normal bottom tier. For example, at the bottom there were 4 teams with less than 10 SEC wins in 2016 vs 1 in both 2014 & 2015. At the top there were 7 teams with 18 or more conf wins vs just 4 in 2014 & 2015. Then you had the situation out west where nobody really separated themselves thus creating a vacuum that was filled by the SEC/ACC and the SEC wound up with an unprecedented 5 national seeds. But it turns out they were good but not championship caliber. They were good enough to hold up into the supers at which point they were exposed. Even then I think the SEC also suffered from a bit of bad luck and off-peak performance. The SEC still should have been able to put at least 2 in omaha but are now in danger of getting shut out unless UF can take game 3 today. Speaking of which I hope they do not win because I'd rather see the SEC miss the CWS than root for O'Suckavan.

 

[coach66]

I'd have to say yeah.

Nm

 

[Dawg1976]

Yes.

 

[121Josey]

Not really. Maybe the East. Vandy looked like hot garbage in the SECt, but had a death to combat. USCe was overrated going into the tourney. UF is Jekyll and Hyde.

State was in a dogfight and had some bad moves in the second game. LSU played out of their mind for a stretch but overachieved. TAMU played a rematch of the 2015 Super and I said that it would be their toughest test to date. TUNS [name your cut-down].

 

[was21]

Agree with Ben McDonald that there's a lot of parity in college baseball and getting hot at the right time can make the difference

 

[gymdawg.sixpack]

Pretty sure uf wins tonight. I also think they win cws

 

[boatsandhoes]

I don't see how you can ignore how good the sec teams were in and out of conference. That said, they didn't produce in the post season. baseball is a fickle game, more fickle than other sports where athletic ability/better players can be neutralized. I would say the sec had lots of great team that didn't produce in the post season....other teams talent was close enough to pull upsets. Many upsets.