I don't know, but if Akron re-adds baseball next year then I assume the tourney goes back to an 8 team tourney and follows more traditional seeding and double-elimination rules.

This year was an aberration.

This article suggests what is wrong with college baseball:

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/story...tournament

SEC has 10 teams in the tourney. Ten is an awful lot to come from one conference...

(05-28-2018 01:42 PM)emu steve Wrote:  This article suggests what is wrong with college baseball:

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/story...tournament

SEC has 10 teams in the tourney. Ten is an awful lot to come from one conference...

Not much worse than NCAA MBB where the ACC got 9.
NCAA D1 is a racket.

(05-28-2018 02:18 PM)masttg Wrote:  

(05-28-2018 01:42 PM)emu steve Wrote:  This article suggests what is wrong with college baseball:

http://www.espn.com/college-sports/story...tournament

SEC has 10 teams in the tourney. Ten is an awful lot to come from one conference...

Not much worse than NCAA MBB where the ACC got 9.
NCAA D1 is a racket.

I should have posted this, instead. Approximately 20 of the top 25 teams are from south of the Mason-Dixon line.

But I guess we can talk about NCAA hockey as the antidote.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/rankings...ll-top-25/

The last team from a snowplow state to win the college world series was Ohio State in 1966. The preponderance of southern teams in the tournament is no conspiracy. If you are going to end the season before June and rightfully expect athletes to attend classes in spring rather than train in better weather, this is bound to happen. Unless of course some northern University was silly enough to build a domed stadium for a non-revenue sport like baseball.

It truly only shows how remarkable Oak's 1976 team accomplishments were.

Eric Roof promoted to permanent head coach. He was the interim for this pervious season.

(06-04-2018 03:11 PM)FrankAnderson Wrote:  Eric Roof promoted to permanent head coach. He was the interim for this pervious season.

Good I think he earned another year

(06-04-2018 07:08 PM)emu79 Wrote:  

(06-04-2018 03:11 PM)FrankAnderson Wrote:  Eric Roof promoted to permanent head coach. He was the interim for this pervious season.

Good I think he earned another year

Thanks
Jon Roof coming on board I believe this is a huge positive
The Roof/Acter/Roof staff are all MSU pedigree and have a history of success in college and professional baseball
Great hire Eric

(07-04-2018 05:42 AM)1014emu Wrote:  

(06-04-2018 07:08 PM)emu79 Wrote:  

(06-04-2018 03:11 PM)FrankAnderson Wrote:  Eric Roof promoted to permanent head coach. He was the interim for this pervious season.

Good I think he earned another year

Thanks
Jon Roof coming on board I believe this is a huge positive
The Roof/Acter/Roof staff are all MSU pedigree and have a history of success in college and professional baseball
Great hire Eric

I was thinking the same. I assume professional baseball is a great training ground for college coaches.

Dear Friends,
This hiring of Jon may work out, but I'm not in favor of hiring family. I know it has been done at other schools with different teams, but like I said, not in favor.

Hi Ken-
Its good to be skeptical of nepotism. But it can work. Look at Sue Parks.

Dear masttg,
Yes, that's a good example of it working well. I just hope it does this time.

(07-05-2018 11:45 AM)Ken Barna Wrote:  Dear masttg,
Yes, that's a good example of it working well. I just hope it does this time.

Sue Parks was a MAC champion head coach at Ball State before she came to EMU.

Let's be clear. The guys resume alone would stack up against any other candidate. Regardless. Let's be happy this family wants to work for EMU.