Released today by D1Baseball.com. Nebraska a 3 seed in the Greenville, SC regional. Honestly not a bad spot. UNC would be tough but its not Corvallis. Creighton a 3 seed in the Corvallis regional, and UNO a 4 seed in the Fayetteville regional
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So much baseball left to play, those projections are useless. Important series against Io-a this weekend.
My impressions of the baseball team this year are that they are NCAA Tournament bound and a #3 seed feels about right I guess, but man I sure miss the days when we were talking about whether or not we'd get to host a regional. I don't know if we'll ever have another run like that, which is a shame given the amount of fan support for the team.
Oh, that talk happens and people who do it catch crap every season now.
BIG recruiting and scholarship rules leaves BIG baseball teams at a huge disadvantage
The Big Ten doesn't allow oversigning like other conferences (not just the Big 12). This means when a kid decides to go pro out of high school but signed with a Big Ten team, he counts against the limit that season.
At least that's how I understand it.
There has been some talk this week by a couple of national college baseball websites about us having the possibility of hosting this year. A long ways to go before we get to that point, but if we do well the rest of the season, and win the conference regular season and/or tournament titles, we could possibly play ourselves into hosting.
3-2 Iowa wins-a result that shouldn't be a surprise if you've followed Nebraska baseball vs Iowa in recent years.
Hosting will never happen as long as Erstad is in the dugout.
The guy can’t build up enough quality depth and struggles to develop a consistent offense.
Poor coaching. We have 1 player who has more than 1 hit in the game. So what do you do as a coach? You take that player out. I mean it makes perfect sense. Then you put Robbie (I give away games alot) Palkert in to pitch to put his record at 1-3 now. If all we have for middle relief pitching is Robbie Palkert then we won't win a game in the B1G tourney. Its sad that Waldron has to pitch a complete game or have the lead in the 9th so Gomes can get a save. So frustrating.
Havent won a series against Iowa since before Heller took over the Iowa program.
Havent won a series against Iowa since before Heller took over the Iowa program.
The weather leaves BIG schools disadvantaged. Few if any recruits are going to opt to play in a climate that severally limits their development over a place that allows them to be outside working on their game year round. Likewise the best high school talent is coming from these baseball friendly climates.
The big ten is not a major division 1 baseball conference and therefore isn’t going to attract major division 1 baseball talent.
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I’ve always said one of the down sides on joining the B1G is that the baseball program won’t be as competitive as it once was in the Big12 conference..
Agree on Palkert. It's turned from tough luck to a trend with him over the years.
This season, we have three conference losses so far. Two of them are walkoff losses with Palkert on the mound. (The third was also a tough-luck walkoff loss for Schanaman, who had two uncaught third strikes in the 9th in game 3 at Minnesota, including what turned out to be the game winner for the Gophers.)
Throw in Luensmann, what the heck has happened to that guy?
Injury, then his mechanics went to hell. That guy has always been an adventure even when he's good. He has a ton of talent, but hasn't ever really put it all together.
Regardless if you believe this or not, Erstad has won just one League title and zero tournament titles in the Big Ten.
Maybe he will actually win the tournament for once this year or win the league again....but the bats have gone silent which is par for the course with Erstad at the helm.
There was an article somewhere where a coach said weather doesn't hurt the Big 10 nearly as much as the inability to oversign. I believe that to be true. But even so, that just makes coaching/development all the more important, and I don't see Erstad doing much of that, even though he's actually had at least 2 recruiting classes that were highly regarded. 1 conference trophy out of a possible 14, 1 win in a regional. Iowa took half the time to accomplish both of those things under Heller. Huh.
No. There has always been at least one at-large bid from the B1G every year since we've been in the conference and at least 2 in each of the last 4 years. There was one in 2012, 2013, and 2014, 4 in 2015, 2 in 2016, 4 in 2017, and 3 in 2018.
Strang was the travel logistics to Corvallis for that 2017 regional: sharing a plane with Yale and Holy Cross.
Being down 2 with a Erstad offense feels like being down 6-7 runs at this point.
