D1 Baseball Pre-Season Top 25

Walkthedawg

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Oct 3, 2022
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7 SEC teams in the top 10. And two years away from a natty… MSU can’t crack the top 25.

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Uncle Ruckus

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Maroon Eagle

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May 24, 2006
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Wake Forest? WTF?
They’re seen as a sleeper CWS pick this season according to a D1Baseball poll that was posted on Facebook behind East Carolina & Campbell (what is it about the North Carolina schools...)
 
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dorndawg

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Sep 10, 2012
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I don't follow college baseball closely but how in the actual 17 has LSU never been a preseason #1?
 
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8dog

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Feb 23, 2008
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I don't follow college baseball closely but how in the actual 17 has LSU never been a preseason #1?

Because D1 has only been around 9 years.

The beauty of college baseball is that these things don’t matter at all. They do in FB. Big year for Fox. Enough arm talent to mold into a staff.

Also I told some of y’all OM would host this year. D1 thinks so too.
 
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Per usual they got Florida high. I never understood the love affair they have with them. Can’t believe bama made the rankings either.
 

Baddog11

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Aug 28, 2013
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Is leaving the team with the most fans, largest attendance, and best atmosphere out of the rankings really good for d-1 baseball though?

seems like the same thing happened in football. Unranked all year behind tsun and then lo and behold at the end of the year they were in the top 5 out of 14 sec teams. And in the top 20 overall.
 

dickiedawg

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Feb 22, 2008
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Just announced pre-season rankings. After last year, it's not shocking...and it's really not important I guess.... but we should expect to always be on this list.

I’m a little surprised not to be ranked after we were top 5 in transfer class and freshman class rankings.
But we were the worst team in the conference last year so it’s not surprising. If we deserve it, we’ll be there soon enough.
 

Uncle Ruckus

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Apr 1, 2011
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They’re seen as a sleeper CWS pick this season according to a D1Baseball poll that was posted on Facebook behind East Carolina & Campbell (what is it about the North Carolina schools...)
Did they dominate the portal? They finished unranked last season, so I'm guessing it's not based of returning talent alone.
 

dorndawg

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Sep 10, 2012
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Because D1 has only been around 9 years.

The beauty of college baseball is that these things don’t matter at all. They do in FB. Big year for Fox. Enough arm talent to mold into a staff.

Also I told some of y’all OM would host this year. D1 thinks so too.
Thanks for the clarification
 

onewoof

Heisman
Mar 4, 2008
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We didn't win the pre-season poll. Darn. Might as well hang up the cleats this season.
 

GloryDawg

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Mar 3, 2005
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If State doesn't make post season a coaching search should began the day after.
 

AstroDog

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Oct 5, 2022
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Just announced pre-season rankings. After last year, it's not shocking...and it's really not important I guess.... but we should expect to always be on this list.

Looks about right. OM is a little high to me, even though they return their entire starting CWS pitching rotation. If they find a replacement for Elko and a few others, then yeah, it's probably ok to rank them high. I would have had them at about #10. OM will only have to sweat Tommy John from visiting them like it happened to us. LSU, indeed should sweep through the conference like UGA did in football. Not much drama there. They struck gold when they got Jay Johnson from Arizona.
 

BulldogBlitz

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Dec 11, 2008
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Is leaving the team with the most fans, largest attendance, and best atmosphere out of the rankings really good for d-1 baseball though?

seems like the same thing happened in football. Unranked all year behind tsun and then lo and behold at the end of the year they were in the top 5 out of 14 sec teams. And in the top 20 overall.


It's gotten them quite a few clicks from that fambase.
 

Podgy

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Oct 1, 2022
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Glad we won that Natty when we did. There are a lot of good SEC programs, including Ole Miss, that attract top talent and programs with more NIL money than we have. We used to be able to count on good to really good baseball seasons. Lemonis will have to recruit better and coach better. Ole Miss and Arky got the good freshman pitchers last year out of Mississippi. We didn't. We can't pitch the Ole Miss never won a Natty line to recruits. LSU now has the cash to get who they want. Freshman can get enough NIL money, and college hotties, to put off the minor leagues for a few years. The SEC is just brutal. We'll see if reputation, a nice stadium and fan support are enough to sway young talent to choose State over some other SEC school.
 

Maroon Eagle

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May 24, 2006
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Glad we won that Natty when we did. There are a lot of good SEC programs, including Ole Miss, that attract top talent and programs with more NIL money than we have. We used to be able to count on good to really good baseball seasons. Lemonis will have to recruit better and coach better. Ole Miss and Arky got the good freshman pitchers last year out of Mississippi. We didn't. We can't pitch the Ole Miss never won a Natty line to recruits. LSU now has the cash to get who they want. Freshman can get enough NIL money, and college hotties, to put off the minor leagues for a few years. The SEC is just brutal. We'll see if reputation, a nice stadium and fan support are enough to sway young talent to choose State over some other SEC school.

Apropos of that...

 

TaleofTwoDogs

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Jun 1, 2004
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Scratch Football school, Basketball school, Baseball school

What does that leave, women's golf??