(04-05-2018 08:51 AM)Owl1998 Wrote:  

(04-05-2018 07:06 AM)Bulldinkydurham Wrote:  

(04-05-2018 04:14 AM)flash3200 Wrote:  

(04-04-2018 11:51 PM)Bulldinkydurham Wrote:  

(04-04-2018 10:07 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  Fact Check: Conference USA has been ranked (RPI) among the top five baseball conferences in eight of the last 11 seasons.
C-USA has placed at least four teams in the NCAA Championship 10 times in the past 15 years, producing five teams on two occasions.
Source: CUSA Media Guide

Don't believe everything you read. Look at the teams in the conference. Perhaps number 5 ranked conference by default but distant from the top 4.

Agree that someone should be accountable for allowing the baseball team to, at least at times and increasing in frequency, appear to be a conference doormat like some of our other programs.

Disagree that CUSA is an also ran in baseball. CUSA is terrible for football and MBB, but several years of decent baseball teams. FAU and SoMiss are legit top 25 teams this year and LaTech is not far behind. Depending on who wins the conference tourney, we could be a 3 team league this year which isn't too shabby. Even when Rice baseball was "good", we still would have had issues competing in a P5 conference like the Big 12 and SEC. A lot of years we looked better on paper since we could annihilate WAC teams who barely fielded a full roster and we saved aces for mid-week RPI boosters. Not a huge surprise that we under-performed in Omaha for several years.

Kind of like the teams in the NCAA March Madness with great records from weaker conferences. Teams like Gonzaga will have inflated records.

Gonzaga may have inflated records but they also go to Final Fours.

Gonzaga's Final Four appearance in 2017 was the first one in the program's history.