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SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
Cajuns (21-14) blow it in the 8th to a good Southeastern Louisiana (27-11) team, 5-3, at home.
The Cajuns outhit the Lions, 11-7
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GeauxUL
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RE: SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
What has happened to SBC baseball? On warren nolans site, we only have 1 team with an rpi under 100!
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Re: RE: SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
(04-15-2015 11:59 AM)GeauxUL Wrote: What has happened to SBC baseball? On warren nolans site, we only have 1 team with an rpi under 100!
Under or over 100?
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USAJag2011
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RE: SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
(04-15-2015 11:59 AM)GeauxUL Wrote: What has happened to SBC baseball? On warren nolans site, we only have 1 team with an rpi under 100!
We dropped a game to App and ours crashed around 20 spots. The Cajuns have some low RPI games coming up as well, I hope you guys don't slip up in one of them. You are our best hope at getting 2 teams in a regional right now.
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RE: SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
Not a good season for the league so far. No one can win out of conference. Seems everyone's rotation is too thin to have a reliable mid-week guy.
I'm really disappointed/embarrassed by TXST's season so far.
We built a new stadium in 2009, were very successful from 2009-2011, and announced a move to a better conference in the Sun Belt shortly after. We took all that momentum and have gone completely backwards over the past couple seasons. We have struck out on multiple recruiting classes and struggle to keep guys for more than a year, mostly because they aren't good enough to keep a spot on the roster. We are forced to routinely play 4 freshman in the lineup who are very slowly getting used to college ball and have such a thin staff that if our starters can't make it at least 6 innings we likely can't win.
With 20 games left there is no point in tracking RPI for us anymore. We will have to win the tourney to get a regional bid. I can't remember the last time we've been in such poor shape that RPI didn't matter. Probably close to a decade.
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GeauxUL
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RE: SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
(04-15-2015 12:05 PM)trojanbrutha Wrote: (04-15-2015 11:59 AM)GeauxUL Wrote: What has happened to SBC baseball? On warren nolans site, we only have 1 team with an rpi under 100!
Under or over 100?
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Under 100...
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RE: SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
(04-15-2015 12:14 PM)_x_ Wrote: Not a good season for the league so far. No one can win out of conference. Seems everyone's rotation is too thin to have a reliable mid-week guy.
I'm really disappointed/embarrassed by TXST's season so far.
We built a new stadium in 2009, were very successful from 2009-2011, and announced a move to a better conference in the Sun Belt shortly after. We took all that momentum and have gone completely backwards over the past couple seasons.
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With 20 games left there is no point in tracking RPI for us anymore. We will have to win the tourney to get a regional bid. I can't remember the last time we've been in such poor shape that RPI didn't matter. Probably close to a decade.
Almost exactly the same here, with the difference that we have renovated with big player amenities this year. Still. highly disappointed. About to have our first losing season at home in a decade.
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RE: SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
Here at GS this too has been a frustrating year. At 11-7 in conference now I am ok with that but our midweek record of 2-9 is bad. Our pitching depth or lack of it has hurt us in midweek. Our offense this year is below par for an average Georgia southern team also. We have some good hitters but there are spots in our lineup that have not produced much. Errors especially in the infield have probably cost us between 4-5 games also. Just a 5!game swing and we would be 26-11 now instead of 21-16.
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RE: SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
When you get a good team like the Cajuns had last year by finishing the season as the unanimous No.1 team in the Nation . So all the Juniors we had that were awesome, which were alot, the whole weekend pitching rotation along with almost every position player all left early for the Major leagues. Other college sports don't have that problem because there is no Minor league system in the NFL or NBA.
If we had the Juniors that left for the Majors playing this year, we would be a top team in the Nation again this year. Blake Trahan who was a Sophomore last year and All American this year. He is practically the only starter left from last years team.
Major league baseball has the luxury of dafting alot of College players unlike the NBA and NFL because of their A, AA, and AAA Minor league teams which you don't have in the other sports. A Very small percentage of those drafted ever realize there dream of playing in the Big Leagues.
So it makes it hard for a College Baseball team to sustain a top team. Alot of teams that go to the CWS are usually not ranked high the next year.
That's why its amazing the amount of National Championships LSU won in the 90s because it usually takes time to reload unless you had the reputation and coach (Skip Bertman) that LSU had,. The bad thing for the Cajuns is that we were always sent to the LSU Regional. These years, they have trouble just like every one else.
It's especially hard on Mid-Majors except maybe some California schools to be really good year after year like in other sports.
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RE: SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
(04-15-2015 11:59 AM)GeauxUL Wrote: What has happened to SBC baseball? On warren nolans site, we only have 1 team with an rpi under 100!
To think, we were below 100 RPI until Tuesday Night. Goes to show you how strong we were OOC, and how TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, AWFUL, PATHETIC, EMBARRASSING we've been in league play.
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USAJag2011
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RE: SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
(04-15-2015 06:04 PM)IdahoCajun Wrote: When you get a good team like the Cajuns had last year by finishing the season as the unanimous No.1 team in every poll. So all the Juniors we had that were awesome, which were alot, practically the whole weekend pitching rotation along with position players all leave early for the Major league.
If we had the Juniors that left for the Majors playing this year, we would be a top team in the Nation again this year. Thank goodness we still have Blake Trahan who was a Sophomore last year and All American this year. He is practically the only starter from last year left from last years team.
Major league baseball has the luxury of dafting alot of College players unlike the NBA and NFL because of their A, AA, and AAA teams which you don't have in the other sports. A Very small percentage of those drafted ever realize there dream of playing in the Big Leagues.
So it makes it hard for a College Baseball team to sustain a top team. Alot of teams that go to the CWS are usually not ranked high the next year.
That's why its amazing the amount of National Championships LSU won in the 90s because it usually takes time to reload unless you had the reputation and coach (Skip Bertman) that LSU had,. The bad thing for the Cajuns is that we were always sent to the LSU Regional. These years they have trouble just like every one else.
It's especially hard on Mid-Majors except maybe some California schools to be really good year after year like in other sports.
I agree. Its difficult to keep the really good recruits, much less the really good current athletes. USA has been down the past few years, but we typically managed to have really good teams. We have been to the NCAA tournament 25 times out of our 50 year history. Our win percentage ranks 16 in the NCAA (D1), higher than any SEC team. Our SOS is not what we expected it to be this year, with Maryland, UCF, Arkansas, Alabama, MS State, ULL, all ranked last year and ranked in the preseason Top 25, along with Auburn who was just on the outside. These teams have had surprisingly average seasons this year.
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RE: SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
ULM leads Northwestern State 5-1 in the ninth.
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CajunFan3406
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SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
(04-15-2015 12:14 PM)_x_ Wrote: Not a good season for the league so far. No one can win out of conference. Seems everyone's rotation is too thin to have a reliable mid-week guy.
I disagree a bit with the comment about a midweek starter. I think the Cajun's midweek starters have been pretty good in most of their recent starts. We lost to SELA because one of our top relievers blew a save opportunity in the 8th when we were up 3-2. Threw a wild pitch and then a ball into centerfield.
I think the bigger issue for the Cajuns in the midweek has been errors, base running mistakes, and inability to get a timely hit. We strand a lot of guys out there. But this is also an issue all of the time, not just on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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RE: SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
(04-16-2015 06:41 AM)CajunFan3406 Wrote: (04-15-2015 12:14 PM)_x_ Wrote: Not a good season for the league so far. No one can win out of conference. Seems everyone's rotation is too thin to have a reliable mid-week guy.
I disagree a bit with the comment about a midweek starter. I think the Cajun's midweek starters have been pretty good in most of their recent starts. We lost to SELA because one of our top relievers blew a save opportunity in the 8th when we were up 3-2. Threw a wild pitch and then a ball into centerfield.
I think the bigger issue for the Cajuns in the midweek has been errors, base running mistakes, and inability to get a timely hit. We strand a lot of guys out there. But this is also an issue all of the time, not just on Tuesday and Wednesday.
I certainly thought uta would fare a little better than they have. they can beat a top team one day and then look bad the next..offense has been streaky and pitching often ineffective .
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RE: SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
Our game with Mercer was cancelled last night, btw. Probably for the best.
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RE: SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
(04-16-2015 06:41 AM)CajunFan3406 Wrote: (04-15-2015 12:14 PM)_x_ Wrote: Not a good season for the league so far. No one can win out of conference. Seems everyone's rotation is too thin to have a reliable mid-week guy.
I disagree a bit with the comment about a midweek starter. I think the Cajun's midweek starters have been pretty good in most of their recent starts. We lost to SELA because one of our top relievers blew a save opportunity in the 8th when we were up 3-2. Threw a wild pitch and then a ball into centerfield.
I think the bigger issue for the Cajuns in the midweek has been errors, base running mistakes, and inability to get a timely hit. We strand a lot of guys out there. But this is also an issue all of the time, not just on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Yeah I don't think you can apply that to literally all of us. But a lot of us have that issue from what I've seen/heard.
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RE: SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
We haven't lost this week so far.
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RE: SBC teams Mid-week Baseball 4/14 to 4/16
Sad state of affairs when a game with Mercer is cancelled "for the best". Potential win off the table. But, Rodney always loses to subpar programs.
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