(12-29-2016 10:59 AM)Digi368 Wrote:  

(12-28-2016 11:21 PM)BeagleUSM Wrote:  I know basketball is just starting to heat up, but some of us root for schools that only have 1 D1 win.

Only about 50 days until Opening Day. What is everyone looking like this year? Rice should be solid per usual, of course, but I think LaTech has the potential to actually win the league. They return nearly everyone, and I think Burroughs might be a better coach than Goff. I'll also go out on a limb and say FIU might surprise people, appears they return just about everybody as well. Melendez is a solid coach too.

Word on the street in Hattiesburg is that this team can really, really hit but pitching is a question. Kirk McCarty should be almost certainly our Friday night guy, with Hayden Roberts and Stevie Powers possibly rounding out the weekend rotation.

My guess at predicting the league:

1) Tech (NCAA)
2) Rice (NCAA)
3) USM (NCAA)
4) FAU (NCAA)
5) FIU
6) Charlotte
7) WKU
8) MTSU
9) UAB
10) WKU
11) Marshall
12) UTSA

I respect your opinion but I don't think UTSA will be that bad. Last year there were a lot of injuries but this is still a good team. All of the bats return including the power hitting infield and UTSA gets back one of their top pitchers who is returning from a medical redshirt season. Last year was the only year UTSA didn't finish in the middle of the pack or better.

Yeah, I hope we won't have the injuries we had last year. I was at the pre-season Baseball Banquet last year, and was taken aback by how many guys we had wearing casts and whatnot before the season even started.

Coach Marshall has been with UTSA for 13 years now, the last four as our head coach. In his first three seasons as HC, we went 35-25, 35-26, and 33-25. Last year's 17-34 record was a shocker, and the worst season we've had since the turn of the century when we went 17-37 in 2000. Hopefully we'll turn it back around again, as such futility has been common to our basketball program, but definitely not baseball.