RE: CUSA offseason baseball thread
If I got to draw USM's schedule up:
- top 25 program in a guarantee road series (or H/H if we can get it like MSU series)
- H/H series with a top flight non power school (ULL, DBU, UNCW, MoState, Houston, etc)
- guarantee home series vs top 100 southern mid-major (Winthrop, Oral Roberts, Tennessee Tech, etc)
- guarantee home series vs mid 100s snowbird (Northeastern, St. Bonaventure's, Central Connecticut)
Midweek rotation is fine with ULL, UNO, USA, State, OM, Alabama, Tulane, etc. I'd also look at possibly starting up a tourney in Biloxi, because you can draw a better field there than you would in Hattiesburg. We had the old Hattiesburg Coca-Cola Classic tourney but it never drew a great field. Easier for teams to get to Biloxi + more corporations down there that can throw $$$ at teams to get them to play.
2005 - USM, Missouri State, McNeese, Mercer
2007 - USM, Louisville (before their program took off, this was the year they went to Omaha which jumpstarted their program into the powerhouse it is today), NW State, Southern Illinois
2008 - USM, Liberty, CS Northridge .... just 3 teams this year
2013 - USM, Missouri State, Eastern Illinois, Alcorn
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