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[DT4248]

I'll say this, and I've said it before. The data driven rankings that use scores are going to make us look good, because we have played a lot of close games with elite teams. We've proven we can be as good as those teams for the most of a game and can beat them a third of the time.

But I don't think the committee is going to give us a ton of credit for what looks to me like just too many times where we couldn't close the deal against the best teams.

No way we've earned a 9 or 10 seed. Two or three more wins and we're in the conversation for a Top 8 seed, but they just didn't do it.

Agree to disagree.

Who earned it then? You gotta compare us to other teams:

USM got run ruled by us, dog walked by OM in a neutral game. Sure they won their home games against us by 1 run. Lost 2 of 3 at louisiana, 2 of 3 at arkansas state. Built their large "Q1/Q2 win group" based on road games against non tourney teams - doesn't move me. 4 bad losses to add to that. One midweek run rule win on Alabama doing heavy lifting. 2-1 against other host sites (all midweeks) while we're punished for going 4-12 against host sites tells me to not play a tough schedule.

FSU? They went WINLESS against host sites: 0-8. 2 Q3 losses. Our sweep of OM is better than their sweep of WF. Their sweep loss to Stanford is worse than our sweep loss to Tennessee.

Oregon? 3-4 against Host sites. Getting one win against UCLA in four tries doing heavy lifting. Telling me that if that ball doesn't bounce over the wall against UCLA - we're #11 or better? I mean they had 5 TERRIBLE losses.

Aggy? I think they also got screwed. They were much better than 12.

Nebraska? 3-8 against host sites. 2 Q3 losses. a bad sweep at ohio state.


But yea - you've dissected us, now dissect the others and tell me which of those 4 you have above us.

I know I'm a bit wordy for SPS, but I think you see my point now.

 

[She Mate Me]

Who earned it then? You gotta compare us to other teams:

USM got run ruled by us, dog walked by OM in a neutral game. Sure they won their home games against us by 1 run. Lost 2 of 3 at louisiana, 2 of 3 at arkansas state. Built their large "Q1/Q2 win group" based on road games against non tourney teams - doesn't move me. 4 bad losses to add to that. One midweek run rule win on Alabama doing heavy lifting. 2-1 against other host sites (all midweeks) while we're punished for going 4-12 against host sites tells me to not play a tough schedule.

FSU? They went WINLESS against host sites: 0-8. 2 Q3 losses. Our sweep of OM is better than their sweep of WF. Their sweep loss to Stanford is worse than our sweep loss to Tennessee.

Oregon? 3-4 against Host sites. Getting one win against UCLA in four tries doing heavy lifting. Telling me that if that ball doesn't bounce over the wall against UCLA - we're #11 or better? I mean they had 5 TERRIBLE losses.

Aggy? I think they also got screwed. They were much better than 12.

Nebraska? 3-8 against host sites. 2 Q3 losses. a bad sweep at ohio state.


But yea - you've dissected us, now dissect the others and tell me which of those 4 you have above us.

I know I'm a bit wordy for SPS, but I think you see my point now.

I saw your point before. I'd have even been partial to it 4 weeks ago. But having a golden opportunity and then losing 7 of 10 games vs Top 12 seeds coming down the stretch just screams "No, were not a Top 12 seed".

I gotta be done on this subject now.

 

[DT4248]

I saw your point before. I'd have even been partial to it 4 weeks ago. But having a golden opportunity and then losing 7 of 10 games vs Top 12 seeds coming down the stretch just screams "No, were not a Top 12 seed".

I gotta be done on this subject now.

So we got 3 wins in that stretch for a total of 4.
USM got 1 win against a Top 12 seed all year
FSU got 0 wins against a Top 12 seed all year
Oregon got 1 win against a Top 12 seed all year
Aggy got 6 wins against Top 12 seeds all year.
Nebraska got 3 wins against Top 12 seeds all year.

So another stat that says "hmm... SEC teams got screwed."

I'm not trying to piss you off - I'm just asking you to critique the others as much as you critique us. Committee couldn't commit to seven top 10 SEC teams and it shows a lot of anti-SEC bias. Sorry it's the best conference in baseball by a mile.

 

[She Mate Me]

So we got 3 wins in that stretch for a total of 4.
USM got 1 win against a Top 12 seed all year
FSU got 0 wins against a Top 12 seed all year
Oregon got 1 win against a Top 12 seed all year
Aggy got 6 wins against Top 12 seeds all year.
Nebraska got 3 wins against Top 12 seeds all year.

So another stat that says "hmm... SEC teams got screwed."

I'm not trying to piss you off - I'm just asking you to critique the others as much as you critique us. Committee couldn't commit to seven top 10 SEC teams and it shows a lot of anti-SEC bias. Sorry it's the best conference in baseball by a mile.

They'll be plenty of opportunity to prove it. It's not like we ended up with an overly difficult path. Hopefully we get the opportunity to prove something against Georgia once again. I'm sure they don't love seeing us across from them.

This is one of those seasons where I think the data polls reflect our potential, but the reality has been lesser than the potential. Hopefully they find something soon to live up to the potential.

 

[GloryDawg]

USM, West Va, Kansas, or Oregon is the culprit that shouldn't be hosting.

I would not be surprised if none of them make it to the CWS.

 

[patdog]

I would not be surprised if none of them make it to the CWS.

I would be shocked if any of them do. Maybe 1 or 2 might make a super regional.