(05-20-2014 11:57 AM)GaSoEagle Wrote:  I have no problem with the way the basketball tourney was done this year and would have no problem expanding it to the women's tourney.

In softball and baseball however I favor an 8 team DE tourney-- no byes, no single elimination. I guess if the game is televised we would have to go to the 2 pods of 4 teams each and have the championship game be a single game. Honestly I would rather see 1 8 team DE tourney with no pods however.

The Sun Belt has to be the only conference in the country to have done the softball tourney like it was done this year. I say scrap that format.

The problem with doing that in baseball is you get seasons like this one every now and then. Louisiana will play ULM for the 7th time in this season. This is in no way helping our RPI at all. Now if the #1 & 2 seeds were rewarded with a bye it could prevent possible RPI killers. Also I do not like the idea of 2 weekend series against the same opponent every year. Troy and South Al have the advantage here as bot programs are generally in the top 3 in the Sun Belt and extra games against each other help in the RPI as well as give each program the advantage of just having to knock each other off instead of relying on help from another school.