Florida St.- 0 Bucknell- 7 Top 6th UCLA-2 UVirginia- 1 Top 7th UCLA gets out of the 6th unscathed by using the hidden ball trick with a runner on 3rd and pick a runner off on 1st. Bama-11 E Carolina- 2 Bot 5th Nebraska-13 E Illinois -11 final UC Irvine-2 Oral Roberts-6 Bottom 2 USM-6 UNO- 6 bottom 6
You have to be kidding. The same can be said of college football but I still see that 1958 NC flag flying over Death Valley. Convenient but entirely too dismissive to set an arbitrary time frame. I suppose 5 consecutive NC's don't count for much regardless of the year? Solid? USC has 12 NC's in baseball. Don't tell me that LSU wouldn't be flying that around regardless of when they were earned. Just take a look at what happened in the draw this year. There are 25 schools in the Pac-10, Big West and West Coast Conference. Eleven made the tournament field. Nine are stuffed in three regionals, meaning only 33 percent of them could advance to a Super Regional. There are 24 schools in the Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference. Fifteen made the tournament. They are stretched across 11 different regionals, so 73 percent could advance to the next round. Arkansas (ninth in the SEC, 11-16 versus tourney teams), Alabama (RPI 44), and Oklahoma (9-17 in Big 12 conference play) received bids. Oregon State, the two-time defending national champs and 13-13 versus tourney teams; College of Charleston, with a better RPI than three at-large teams and winners of nine of 12; and UC Santa Barbara, tied for third in the Big West with No. 2 seed Irvine, did not. Nice brackets.
Now Vball, why do you think that is and dont you say there is a bias. ps. agree with the other stuff.
Florida State gets blanked by Bucknell 7-0 so its Tulane vs Bucknell in the winners game of that regional...get your tickets now!!! :hihi:
Kidding...not at all! Just because it doesn't work for you doesn't make it arbitrary. You should be proud of your 12 NCs (especially the five in a row) but there is absolutely no comaprison to football. I will agree that football has also changed but not nearly as much as baseball. Go back and research scholarship limits and emphasis placed on baseball and you'll see that a handful of quality prgrams got the majority of quality players. As scholarship limitations went into effect (currently 11.7 - effective 1991) quality players began searching for playing opportunities that came with a scholarship (or partial) offer. Title IX helped parity in college baseball as teams could no longer sign as many players as they wanted. The number of scholarship players is set to decrease later this year and again in 2010. Here's a quote from a Pac 10 coach... "Twenty-five years ago, you could say one of five teams is going to win a national championship," Stanford coach Mark Marquess said. "Now you've got to say there's 50 teams that can win it. With scholarship limitations, it brings about parity. Not being able to transfer, the minimum 33 percent scholarship, that's going to bring about parity." The later starting period also has helped expand the number of teams who can compete. Northern-school coaches like Wichita State's Gene Stephenson say the start date "is so long overdue." Too many southern schools stack the schedule in February and March with northern teams "who aren't ready to play," Stephenson said. The result, according to K-State A.D. Weiser, was "colder-weather teams starting 0-12 and trying to crawl back the rest of the year." Hot prospects weren't exactly beating down Oregon State's door a decade ago. But as college baseball has blossomed in pockets like Corvallis, parity has followed. That only helps the sport, the K-State A.D. said. "When you watch Oregon State play, when you look at their roster and the climate issues they have to overcome, and here they are with back-to-back national championships . . .," Weiser said. "It does give you reason to believe there's hope to try and go get over the hump." As more teams add or place more emphasis on baseball, the competition will be even tougher. As great of a run as LSU had from '91-'00, someone will say that it's now tougher in 2010, 2020, 2030...and they'll be right. It doesn't diminish what USC did in the '70s or what LSU did in the '90s but to say that college baseball is even slightly similar today as it was 35 years ago is absurd. I don't know how the committee determines the regional teams. It appears that they want representation from all regions regardless of rankings, etc. I think the year that four teams from the SEC West reached Omaha convinced some in the NCAA to change the way they sorted the teams. I think they also want to ensure that some "new blood" (mainly northern, non-traditional teams) occasionally reach Omaha. You know the NCAA...it's all about money. If they can smell another dollar, they'll jump at the opportunity...even at the expense of a deserving team. This year's lineup may have kept a couple of west coast teams from reaching Omaha but it also guaranteed that several would make it to the Super Regionals.
the losers bracket game, florida and florida state, is on fox sun sports now if anyone is interested.
