(05-30-2017 12:01 PM)CardinalBlackTrojan Wrote:  

(05-30-2017 11:39 AM)CajunAmos Wrote:  Would have been very interesting if the Cajuns hadn't played one very poor OOC series if they would have been at at larger. I tend to think they would have but maybe that's wishful thinking.

That St. Peter's series did you guys in.

When Troy swept ULM this season, who has a 256 RPI, Troy's RPI still fell from 98 to 111.

If you take out that St. Peter's series, ULL's RPI is probably in the mid-40's.

Our RPI tracker had us before the tournament at #33 and the OOC RPI at #3.

(05-29-2017 06:57 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(05-29-2017 05:11 PM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  Speaking of the tournament:

Next year we'll welcome you to M. L. "Tigue" Moore Field at Russo Park. With construction completed and the tailgate areas back in force, it should be one helluva good time for everyone who attends.

If you haven't been to Lafayette for baseball, it's a whole new experience.

Oh, and we have turf. No worries if it rains. We'll get the games in.

8 or 10 teams after this years mess?

That's an excellent question. I think the thing to do is take a deep breath. In this particular year, had we had only eight, the double elimination format still is in effect.

But this is the first time since I've been covering the league (1992) the tournament has been shortened.

Ironic that the reason behind adding the two teams was to give the top two seeds an advantage. They both lost anyway.

Personally I'm not a fan of ten. But I don't see the coaches changing just because of what happened this year. I think it will stay at ten.

(05-30-2017 01:17 PM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  

(05-29-2017 06:57 PM)chiefsfan Wrote:  

(05-29-2017 05:11 PM)BirdofParadise Wrote:  Speaking of the tournament:

Next year we'll welcome you to M. L. "Tigue" Moore Field at Russo Park. With construction completed and the tailgate areas back in force, it should be one helluva good time for everyone who attends.

If you haven't been to Lafayette for baseball, it's a whole new experience.

Oh, and we have turf. No worries if it rains. We'll get the games in.

8 or 10 teams after this years mess?

That's an excellent question. I think the thing to do is take a deep breath. In this particular year, had we had only eight, the double elimination format still is in effect.

But this is the first time since I've been covering the league (1992) the tournament has been shortened.

Ironic that the reason behind adding the two teams was to give the top two seeds an advantage. They both lost anyway.

Personally I'm not a fan of ten. But I don't see the coaches changing just because of what happened this year. I think it will stay at ten.

Yeah most years 10 would have been fine but none of us can control the weather so the likelihood of something like what happened this year does increase with more games.

I know no one will agree with me but I liked the single elimination. Plus the team that won it was a team that could have won a regular tourney. It wound up with on the better baseball games I have ever watched. Coach gets thrown out,fans gets asked to leave. Two rallies in the ninth, extra innings. Close plays at home with the game on the line. Players stepping up, players falling flat on their face. The GS fans stepping up and filling the stands.Heck of a tourney.

(05-30-2017 02:05 PM)OsageJ Wrote:  I know no one will agree with me but I liked the single elimination. Plus the team that won it was a team that could have won a regular tourney. It wound up with on the better baseball games I have ever watched. Coach gets thrown out,fans gets asked to leave. Two rallies in the ninth, extra innings. Close plays at home with the game on the line. Players stepping up, players falling flat on their face. The GS fans stepping up and filling the stands.Heck of a tourney.

I like the competitiveness of the event, but it does minimize the regular season to some degree. You can have a team get hot in the last two weeks of the season and leave your larger sample size teams out of the tournament all together. The Cajuns were the beneficiary of this a couple of years ago and wound up winning a regional but the question would be what's best from the conference perspective to get as many participants in the NCAA tournament. Just typing thoughts.

(05-30-2017 02:56 PM)CajunAmos Wrote:  

(05-30-2017 02:05 PM)OsageJ Wrote:  I know no one will agree with me but I liked the single elimination. Plus the team that won it was a team that could have won a regular tourney. It wound up with on the better baseball games I have ever watched. Coach gets thrown out,fans gets asked to leave. Two rallies in the ninth, extra innings. Close plays at home with the game on the line. Players stepping up, players falling flat on their face. The GS fans stepping up and filling the stands.Heck of a tourney.

I like the competitiveness of the event, but it does minimize the regular season to some degree. You can have a team get hot in the last two weeks of the season and leave your larger sample size teams out of the tournament all together. The Cajuns were the beneficiary of this a couple of years ago and wound up winning a regional but the question would be what's best from the conference perspective to get as many participants in the NCAA tournament. Just typing thoughts.

That can happen in any tournament format.

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(05-30-2017 03:01 PM)SBEagle Wrote:  

(05-30-2017 02:56 PM)CajunAmos Wrote:  

(05-30-2017 02:05 PM)OsageJ Wrote:  I know no one will agree with me but I liked the single elimination. Plus the team that won it was a team that could have won a regular tourney. It wound up with on the better baseball games I have ever watched. Coach gets thrown out,fans gets asked to leave. Two rallies in the ninth, extra innings. Close plays at home with the game on the line. Players stepping up, players falling flat on their face. The GS fans stepping up and filling the stands.Heck of a tourney.

I like the competitiveness of the event, but it does minimize the regular season to some degree. You can have a team get hot in the last two weeks of the season and leave your larger sample size teams out of the tournament all together. The Cajuns were the beneficiary of this a couple of years ago and wound up winning a regional but the question would be what's best from the conference perspective to get as many participants in the NCAA tournament. Just typing thoughts.

That can happen in any tournament format.

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I agree, but if you finished in the top of the conference you usually you get a chance to play another game where you can overcome one bad game. The Cajuns also did that in the last few years. With a one & done, you're just that.

The bigger question for next season is whether the coaches get together and drop the number of conference games to allow us to go play more non-conference games

(05-30-2017 04:01 PM)Tealblood Wrote:  The bigger question for next season is whether the coaches get together and drop the number of conference games to allow us to go play more non-conference games

No, it's not. The conference schedule number will stay the same.

The Hattiesburg regional is completely sold out. Eagle club members without season tickets could by at 1pm today. When they went on sale all that remained were SRO.

(05-30-2017 04:54 PM)Thegoldstandard Wrote:  The Hattiesburg regional is completely sold out. Eagle club members without season tickets could by at 1pm today. When they went on sale all that remained were SRO.

That's awesome.

I've been cracking up at all the MSU fans complaining about not being able to get tickets, as if they are entitled to them. They act like they are the host.

(05-30-2017 04:54 PM)Thegoldstandard Wrote:  The Hattiesburg regional is completely sold out. Eagle club members without season tickets could by at 1pm today. When they went on sale all that remained were SRO.

I'm still waiting on my email to see if I have enough priority points to get my tickets. Haha.

I went to Tally last year and there were lots of GA tickets available for walk-ups. Hats off to Hattiesburg and the teams for selling their allotments.

When we hosted Mississippi State in 2014 it was the same thing. And, Ole Miss fans in the supers were even worse.

(05-30-2017 04:44 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  

(05-30-2017 04:01 PM)Tealblood Wrote:  The bigger question for next season is whether the coaches get together and drop the number of conference games to allow us to go play more non-conference games

No, it's not. The conference schedule number will stay the same.

It may but don't get to twisted if they drop 3 games next season

(05-30-2017 09:54 PM)Tealblood Wrote:  

(05-30-2017 04:44 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  

(05-30-2017 04:01 PM)Tealblood Wrote:  The bigger question for next season is whether the coaches get together and drop the number of conference games to allow us to go play more non-conference games

No, it's not. The conference schedule number will stay the same.

It may but don't get to twisted if they drop 3 games next season

They already dropped 3, we didn't play GS. Even then teams are filling in with a series versus an OOC opponent. In the SLC, we had 12 teams and played 11 series.
30 conference games still gives you room for +/- 25 OOC games. TXST averages about 56 games a season. How may games do you want them to play OOC?

(05-30-2017 09:54 PM)Tealblood Wrote:  

(05-30-2017 04:44 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  

(05-30-2017 04:01 PM)Tealblood Wrote:  The bigger question for next season is whether the coaches get together and drop the number of conference games to allow us to go play more non-conference games

No, it's not. The conference schedule number will stay the same.

It may but don't get to twisted if they drop 3 games next season

I don't see it happening. We already miss one opponent and missing two opponents (six games) makes it too unbalanced (one team could play the top 2 teams and go 1-5 against them while another team missed both of those teams creating an unfair advantage). It also creates unbalanced home/away schedule (9 series means some teams have 5 home series and 4 away series while others have 4 home series and 5 away series). You don't actually think this will happen do you? Scheduling isn't an issue. Our league just didn't win enough OOC games this year.

(05-30-2017 06:34 PM)USAJag2011 Wrote:  

(05-30-2017 04:54 PM)Thegoldstandard Wrote:  The Hattiesburg regional is completely sold out. Eagle club members without season tickets could by at 1pm today. When they went on sale all that remained were SRO.

That's awesome.

I've been cracking up at all the MSU fans complaining about not being able to get tickets, as if they are entitled to them. They act like they are the host.

(05-30-2017 09:54 PM)Tealblood Wrote:  

(05-30-2017 04:44 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  

(05-30-2017 04:01 PM)Tealblood Wrote:  The bigger question for next season is whether the coaches get together and drop the number of conference games to allow us to go play more non-conference games

No, it's not. The conference schedule number will stay the same.

It may but don't get to twisted if they drop 3 games next season

It won't happen. The conference schedule regarding who plays who has been set. 30 games again. Nothing to get twisted about, one way or another.

(05-30-2017 04:01 PM)Tealblood Wrote:  The bigger question for next season is whether the coaches get together and drop the number of conference games to allow us to go play more non-conference games

You'd never get that passed. Most leagues in America start Conference Play week 5. Pushing league play back a couple more weeks would severely limit teams available for games. When the conference played a few years with an odd number of teams and everyone had a conference bye week, there were teams who really struggled to find competitive games. That issue only gets magnified when you've got 12 teams looking for games.