Heels in the Polls - April 27 Week
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My guess is we will also remain at 2 in the coaches and NCBWA polls released later today, Bottom line is we have a top 10 matchup in Boshamer tomorrow night, Hopefully the season ticket holders will show up or get their tickets to UNC fans who will.
There are still some general admission tickets for sale in sec 116 and 117.
There are still some general admission tickets for sale in sec 116 and 117.
Coastals ability to consistently field a nationally competitive baseball program is remarkable. Should be a great matchup.
I mean this isn’t entirely true, if you’re alluding to NIL. SEC programs have been committed to baseball for years upon years, but if you’re talking about the athletic budget going into the programs before NIL I agree. A lot of it is luck as well, not a chance on this earth this Mississippi teams had the best rosters money could buy those 2 years they won it. Recently though, I’d agree somewhat to the NIL figure.
"Recently" is the period that I am describing. There are outliers, however. Bianco's Ole Miss teams and Gary Gilmore's Coastal Carolina squad are among them.
Before "recently," at least back to 2003, when I started again to pay serious attention to college baseball, the preliminary match-ups determined the eventual CWS participants, and those match-ups were made--almost entirely in private--by "a Committee," which consisted of a number of athletic directors, whose method of selection was also not disclosed.
A number of those athletic directors hailed from places like Fullerton. That did not become clear to me until I attended the CWS in 2006. What is still not clear is whether a college's success in Omaha led to selection of its athletic director to that Committee, or just the opposite.
It probably was initially the first, and then it became too irresistible not to be the second. The Omaha regulars all knew to expect Fullerton annually.
The 2006 CWS was a defining moment in many ways. Four ACC teams (Carolina, GA Tech, Clemson and Miami) made the field, which was the first time that had occurred. And the SEC was shocked. Not just the then baseball powers, like LSU and Miss. State, but everyone.
And, since then, the SEC, with a big "blind assist" from ESPN, has simply grabbed college baseball by the ears and, by hook or by crook, made itself the feature of college baseball.
There are, of course, exceptions. And Carolina is one of those. That fortunate circumstance also originated in 2006--at the Tuscaloosa Super Regional--an event that the Heels were supposed to lose.
But they won handily instead. And the ensuing run in Omaha, through 2013, made Carolina an undeniable fixture in the college baseball landscape.
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The warmer weather has also been a big benefit - just like the southwest
Those D1 guys just can't get over GT. Even though UNC took them in the series and looked like the better team doing it, D1 can't get away from those sexy offensive numbers. Not saying GT isn't a great team. They are. But I'd rather have better pitching and defense, paired with a good offense and UNC does.
GT seem vulnerable the same way they’ve been in the past—if another team comes into the regional with hot hitting they also going to be able to hit HRs in their ballpark. We saw them not be able to leave the yard in chapel hill, especially in that first game there were a few fly outs they seemed to think we HRs off the bat. Their starting pitching seems to be trending down, which is not good.
And I want to be seeded commensurate with our ranking and not be jobbed down 2-4 spots in favor of SEC teams as seems to happen every season.
remember watching that 2006 game with the UNC win. What a moment...