Etheridge has us as the second-best 3 seed in his projections..
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I cannot understand where all the love for them is coming from? The perfect game clowns love them. They love the CUSA, too. I don't get it. You would think they're on the verge of being a top 3 team, listening to Kendall Rogers. Conversely, he hates us.
so I have watched them play a few times this year. They are not spectacular, just a good baseball team. They have 3 good starters and a really good closer. They also have arguably the best pro prospect in the state in Vollmuth. He may be the worst fielder I have seen, however. Usually every year at least 1 C-USA team gets to host. That team is usually Rice. The next two weeks will see whether or not USM gets to host or not, as the play Houston and the current #2 Rice. Right now they are 10 in RPI and 1st in CUSA. So, if the season ended today, then I think they have earned the right to host. Sidenote: They are 3-3 against the SEC.
you have to look at it a little further than that.None of those 6 games was against a teamwith a winning record in the SEC (combined 42-56 record). If you put them in the SEC, they'd be fighting to make it to Hoover just like we are.Requiem For A Bulldog said:
Having seen both teams play, I don't think they're any better than us. They maybe have a little bit deeper starting rotation but that's about it. Vollmuth and one of their starters are the only guys that I would trade for over someone on our team.
This is one time where not playing in the SEC is an advantage for them. I think that C-USA is a good baseball conference and deserves maybe a regional host, but not a bid. This is clearly, at least to me, part of the politics of college baseball which feels the need to help out teams from the north and smaller conferences.
This is one time where not playing in the SEC is an advantage for them. I think that C-USA is a good baseball conference and deserves maybe a regional host, but not a bid. This is clearly, at least to me, part of the politics of college baseball which feels the need to help out teams from the north and smaller conferences.