(02-21-2019 09:17 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(02-21-2019 08:24 PM)EagNBran Wrote:  Let’s just handle our business this weekend. At the end of the day, when it gets regional time, your weekend rotation matters much more than anything midweek. Lose too many midweek, you’ll be out of hosting range, but doesn’t mean you aren’t a good team. Have three great starters and you can go places.

But back to original point, let’s just beat State and worry about rankings later. We keep winning, we’ll move up.

if you say so...

all I know is W vs. L....

that midweek bs is nothing more than you don't have a pitching staff for shite...

How many of our midweek starters pitched during our regional? How much did their roles matter? Were our games not decided by our weekend starters either succeeding (Sandlin) or failing (everyone else)?

If you really think some random Freshman or guy who's proven to not be that great that starts on weekdays defines how good a team is in a weekend series (which is basically what postseason play is the entire way through), then I'm not sure what to tell ya.

We didn’t (and rarely do) make it deep enough to need our 4th starter last year. Undoubtedly, the better your midweek pitching, the better your staff.

(02-21-2019 11:00 PM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(02-21-2019 09:17 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(02-21-2019 08:24 PM)EagNBran Wrote:  Let’s just handle our business this weekend. At the end of the day, when it gets regional time, your weekend rotation matters much more than anything midweek. Lose too many midweek, you’ll be out of hosting range, but doesn’t mean you aren’t a good team. Have three great starters and you can go places.

But back to original point, let’s just beat State and worry about rankings later. We keep winning, we’ll move up.

if you say so...

all I know is W vs. L....

that midweek bs is nothing more than you don't have a pitching staff for shite...

How many of our midweek starters pitched during our regional? How much did their roles matter? Were our games not decided by our weekend starters either succeeding (Sandlin) or failing (everyone else)?

If you really think some random Freshman or guy who's proven to not be that great that starts on weekdays defines how good a team is in a weekend series (which is basically what postseason play is the entire way through), then I'm not sure what to tell ya.

hate to break this to you, but if you don't have 4 solid starters, mid relievers, and a closer, it doesn't matter period....

however, it does matter when you have a thoroughbred....

go back and review what we should've done last year in whatever thread that was....see what we did....see how that worked out...

you'll see where my position was then, as it remains today...

we should've saved Sandlin vs. dallas baptist knowing arky had won....

this isn't hindsight....this is how you pitch to win the dayum thing....

but wtfe....keep thinking that rotation bs matters when it comes to tourney time....

if one loses the majority of the midweek games, you're not dancing in a regional in this conference....

I couldn't give two shites about muh poles [sic] right now...

edit: we got lucky getting rained out this week going into the weekend....and one is silly if they don't understand why....

(02-21-2019 11:00 PM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(02-21-2019 09:17 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(02-21-2019 08:24 PM)EagNBran Wrote:  Let’s just handle our business this weekend. At the end of the day, when it gets regional time, your weekend rotation matters much more than anything midweek. Lose too many midweek, you’ll be out of hosting range, but doesn’t mean you aren’t a good team. Have three great starters and you can go places.

But back to original point, let’s just beat State and worry about rankings later. We keep winning, we’ll move up.

if you say so...

all I know is W vs. L....

that midweek bs is nothing more than you don't have a pitching staff for shite...

How many of our midweek starters pitched during our regional? How much did their roles matter? Were our games not decided by our weekend starters either succeeding (Sandlin) or failing (everyone else)?

If you really think some random Freshman or guy who's proven to not be that great that starts on weekdays defines how good a team is in a weekend series (which is basically what postseason play is the entire way through), then I'm not sure what to tell ya.

Two reliable weekend starters are usually necessary but not sufficient for winning a regional. If you don’t have good weekend pitching, you’re probably getting eliminated in 2 or 3 games like last year and 2016.

If you want to win a regional, you need more than just weekend starters, though. You need pitching depth (see 2017). No, a good #4 starter is not necessary but that’s a good sign of pitching depth and means that you have a guy who can throw in a long relief role when one of your weekend guys gets shelled. In 2017, we desperately needed a guy like that against UIC in the first game when McCarty got knocked out early and in both State games. Instead, we were left relying on Sandlin too much. Sadly, our weekend starters are rarely good enough to get to a point in which pitching depth becomes a huge factor.

Honestly, it doesn’t really matter. Our pitching is and has always been light years from being at a level that can win a regional without a ton of scoring (numbers don’t lie). We have always lacked the talent at the top of the rotation and the quality depth. With few exceptions, our route out of a regional for the foreseeable future is outslugging teams. And that’s not a reliable strategy.

(02-22-2019 12:17 AM)eaglenjxn Wrote:  

(02-21-2019 11:00 PM)EagNBran Wrote:  

(02-21-2019 09:17 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(02-21-2019 08:24 PM)EagNBran Wrote:  Let’s just handle our business this weekend. At the end of the day, when it gets regional time, your weekend rotation matters much more than anything midweek. Lose too many midweek, you’ll be out of hosting range, but doesn’t mean you aren’t a good team. Have three great starters and you can go places.

But back to original point, let’s just beat State and worry about rankings later. We keep winning, we’ll move up.

if you say so...

all I know is W vs. L....

that midweek bs is nothing more than you don't have a pitching staff for shite...

How many of our midweek starters pitched during our regional? How much did their roles matter? Were our games not decided by our weekend starters either succeeding (Sandlin) or failing (everyone else)?

If you really think some random Freshman or guy who's proven to not be that great that starts on weekdays defines how good a team is in a weekend series (which is basically what postseason play is the entire way through), then I'm not sure what to tell ya.

Two reliable weekend starters are usually necessary but not sufficient for winning a regional. If you don’t have good weekend pitching, you’re probably getting eliminated in 2 or 3 games like last year and 2016.

If you want to win a regional, you need more than just weekend starters, though. You need pitching depth (see 2017). No, a good #4 starter is not necessary but that’s a good sign of pitching depth and means that you have a guy who can throw in a long relief role when one of your weekend guys gets shelled. In 2017, we desperately needed a guy like that against UIC in the first game when McCarty got knocked out early and in both State games. Instead, we were left relying on Sandlin too much. Sadly, our weekend starters are rarely good enough to get to a point in which pitching depth becomes a huge factor.

Honestly, it doesn’t really matter. Our pitching is and has always been light years from being at a level that can win a regional without a ton of scoring (numbers don’t lie). We have always lacked the talent at the top of the rotation and the quality depth. With few exceptions, our route out of a regional for the foreseeable future is outslugging teams. And that’s not a reliable strategy.

XACLY!

My only point is that the reason midweek games are viewed as less important than weekend series is because the weekend is what will really judge how you can do in postseason. I’m not saying they don’t matter at all or that they don’t show your depth. I was just saying why they aren’t as big a deal as the weekend in pollsters eyes.

Purdont continuing their losing ways. Down 7-1 at Texas in the 7th. Hopefully they can win at least 1 in their 4 game series there

Rice gets shut out by UC Irvine 7-0 and is down 2-0 in the series.
LaTech lost to Troy.
FIU lost to South Dakota State.
FAU fixing to lose to Illinois to go down 2-0 in the series.

C-USA is baaaaddddddd.

Purdue split with #14 Texas yesterday, losing 13-6 and winning 4-0...

(02-23-2019 06:53 PM)BeagleUSM Wrote:  Rice gets shut out by UC Irvine 7-0 and is down 2-0 in the series.
LaTech lost to Troy.
FIU lost to South Dakota State.
FAU fixing to lose to Illinois to go down 2-0 in the series.

C-USA is baaaaddddddd.

and mighty #10 OP lost to Tulane.....UCF blasted #20 Auburn...#12 Arkansas lost to USC....Kentucky lost to Texas Tech and apparently, Alabama lost to Ball State 7-4..

Cherry picking scores in any conference is easy..

- UNO comes in Tuesday and they've won 5 straight after a season opening loss at home to Michigan State (L,W,W) and then swept a tournament this past weekend in New Orleans vs Chicago St (record of 0-5), Rutgers (record of 2-4) and Butler (record of 2-3)
- Gonzaga who we play this upcoming weekend went 1-3 this past weekend at Cal Northridge...won Friday 10-8 in 13 innings then lost 3-0, 7-4, and 15-12
- UAB swept our last OOC weekend opponent Holy Cross this past weekend.

Pretty much all of the pundits had Gonzaga as a regional team. They look to be underachieving as Northridge is a Big West cellar dweller.

Holy Cross could very well start 0-15.

(02-25-2019 11:23 AM)usm99 Wrote:  - Gonzaga who we play this upcoming weekend went 1-3 this past weekend at Cal Northridge...won Friday 10-8 in 13 innings then lost 3-0, 7-4, and 15-12

Whatcha think them boys from Spokane will think about Hattiesville, MS? Bet they eat some BBQ, Fried Chicken, collards, Catfish, sweet tea and cornbread...so they won't be able to run the bases, just grunt the bases.

(02-25-2019 12:35 PM)BeagleUSM Wrote:  Holy Cross could very well start 0-15.

Holy Sh!t!

Alabama is at South Alabama this weekend. Maybe not the best series this weekend, but definitely one of the most fun.

Yale defeats UNO on Friday night 4-1. UNO gets only one hit...

(03-01-2019 01:01 AM)BeagleUSM Wrote:  Alabama is at South Alabama this weekend. Maybe not the best series this weekend, but definitely one of the most fun.

Clemson and South Carolina are playing a 3 game series this weekend.
Game 1 is at Clemson
Game 2 is in Greenville, SC
Game 3 is at USC

Pretty cool idea.

Good to see Rice beat Baylor and TCU at Shriners.

State goes to Gainesville and takes 2/3 from Florida. Their two wins weren’t particularly competitive games, as Florida basically did nothing until they were down several runs. State is 18-2 and looks every bit the part of a national title contender.

Purdue and Holy Crosd still suck.

Gonzaga won 2/3 at BYU, who looks like they are decent.

Next week’s opponent, ODU, lost 2/3 to Charlotte at home. I’m not even going to pretend that I care what else happened in the conference. I guess any promise Rice started to show was snuffed out in Boca.


Our midweek opponent, ULM, got outscored 42-13 by a good Coastal squad this weekend. It looks like Federico’s program is still struggling. Nevertheless, midweek Sun Belt pitching represents a significant upgrade from weekend C-USA arms, so the lineup should get a good test. (I’m kidding...kind of).

Now that we have won 11/12, perhaps we will get some votes again in the top 25 -so here's some games of interest.

Tuesday - #13, 15, and 19 lost
Wednesday - #9 lost
Thursday - #14 and 24 lost
Friday - #2, 4, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20 and 24 lost
Saturday - #7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 19, 22, and 24 lost
Sunday - #7, 11, 15, 16, 17, 20, 23