(03-14-2023 09:06 PM)Ricefootballnet Wrote:  Truly pathetic. Beyond hard to watch. “Fails” in every category. No apparent way out of the dilemma.

Guess the Bragga era wasn’t the bottom. Hitting, pitching, game decisions are all poor at best. So far only fielding rates a barely passing grade. None of this will help recruiting.

Holding out hope for some momentum during conference play. Telling myself that our record was 17-39 last year and 5-13 at the end of out of conference play. So we’re maybe on an upward trajectory. We even swept a weekend series this year.

(03-15-2023 06:10 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Holding out hope for some momentum during conference play. Telling myself that our record was 17-39 last year and 5-13 at the end of out of conference play. So we’re maybe on an upward trajectory. We even swept a weekend series this year.

Rice dropped 17 places overnight and 47 places in the RPI rankings in the last 7 days, now ranked 140. The weekend series the Owls swept was vs the #256 team (out of 305) and the Owls were shutout last night by the #255 team. Appreciate the optimism, but any positive momentum is hard to see.

https://d1baseball.com/nitty-gritty/

(03-15-2023 11:11 AM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(03-15-2023 06:10 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Holding out hope for some momentum during conference play. Telling myself that our record was 17-39 last year and 5-13 at the end of out of conference play. So we’re maybe on an upward trajectory. We even swept a weekend series this year.

Rice dropped 17 places overnight and 47 places in the RPI rankings in the last 7 days, now ranked 140. The weekend series the Owls swept was vs the #256 team (out of 305) and the Owls were shutout last night by the #255 team. Appreciate the optimism, but any positive momentum is hard to see.

https://d1baseball.com/nitty-gritty/

Oof - I figured the metrics weren't going to do us any favors, but didn't realize how bad they would look. Yikes.

(03-15-2023 11:11 AM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(03-15-2023 06:10 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  Holding out hope for some momentum during conference play. Telling myself that our record was 17-39 last year and 5-13 at the end of out of conference play. So we’re maybe on an upward trajectory. We even swept a weekend series this year.

Rice dropped 17 places overnight and 47 places in the RPI rankings in the last 7 days, now ranked 140. The weekend series the Owls swept was vs the #256 team (out of 305) and the Owls were shutout last night by the #255 team. Appreciate the optimism, but any positive momentum is hard to see.

https://d1baseball.com/nitty-gritty/

Top 4 teams in the RPI are BC, Columbia, Wofford, and Northeastern.

I agree with your general point but the RPI is useless until mid April at the earliest.

The good news is I don’t foresee any Edwin Diaz type injuries (team celebration related injuries) in the offing for the 2023 team.