Here is where everyone finished in RPI (Warren Nolan). I added in Ga. Southern and App St.

5 Louisiana
66 Arkansas St.
90 Georgia Southern
93 Texas St.
94 Texas - Arlington
126 Western Kentucky
152 ULM
156 South Alabama
158 UALR
168 App. St.
169 Ga. State
192 Troy

Sun Belt finished as #11 conference.

Hope next year we get back into top 6 conferences and multiple teams in NCAAs.

Good luck to Louisiana and Ga. Southern this year in regionals.

I will say I was under the impression the SBC was one of the better baseball conferences. Was this season a case of multiple teams having a bad year, or was it that ULL was so dominate and many others were close together that it just appeared the conference was down?

(05-30-2014 07:00 AM)AppfanInCAAland Wrote:  I will say I was under the impression the SBC was one of the better baseball conferences. Was this season a case of multiple teams having a bad year, or was it that ULL was so dominate and many others were close together that it just appeared the conference was down?

I am surprised at that ranking. In the dallas morning news today there is an article about dallas baptist winning the mvc and going to the ncaa regional in ft. worth. they point out that the mvc is the #6 baseball conference..how can that be true. google up the schools in the mvc..none seem like baseball powerhouses to me.

(05-30-2014 07:00 AM)AppfanInCAAland Wrote:  I will say I was under the impression the SBC was one of the better baseball conferences. Was this season a case of multiple teams having a bad year, or was it that ULL was so dominate and many others were close together that it just appeared the conference was down?

I would say it's because most of the teams had a down season. This was a rebuilding year for Troy since we lost so many good players. I don't think many of us expected as bad of a season as it was though.

(05-30-2014 07:00 AM)AppfanInCAAland Wrote:  I will say I was under the impression the SBC was one of the better baseball conferences. Was this season a case of multiple teams having a bad year, or was it that ULL was so dominate and many others were close together that it just appeared the conference was down?

Historically it has been. 2012 ended a 15-16 year streak of multiple teams in the tournament. Now it's been two of the last three years with just one in ... so is it a downwards trend or just a blip

(05-30-2014 08:14 AM)warhawk09 Wrote:  Historically it has been. 2012 ended a 15-16 year streak of multiple teams in the tournament. Now it's been two of the last three years with just one in ... so is it a downwards trend or just a blip

where the schools that left for CUSA near the top of the conference in baseball?

I just say that because the downward trend began in 2012 around the time conference musical chairs began.

(05-30-2014 09:13 AM)southern edumacation Wrote:  

(05-30-2014 08:14 AM)warhawk09 Wrote:  Historically it has been. 2012 ended a 15-16 year streak of multiple teams in the tournament. Now it's been two of the last three years with just one in ... so is it a downwards trend or just a blip

where the schools that left for CUSA near the top of the conference in baseball?

I just say that because the downward trend began in 2012 around the time conference musical chairs began.

MTSU was average, UNT did not have baseball. The F_U's were both usually pretty good.

Losing the Florida schools hurt in baseball. The hard part about realignment is that you're replacing two up p-programs with two new programs, and one has no idea where those two new programs are going to be heading in.

Although, neither Florida school made the NCAA's this year either, so I don't think we missed much there.

USA had a very down year. USA's win percentage was only 40.0%, which marks our worst season ever (not counting our inaugural 15 game season in 1965).