It's going to be Florida and South Carolina

Todd4State

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for the CWS final. I'm thinking UF is going to win this thing. The Big 10 is going to be pissed. Of course, I'm sure Virginia lost today because it snows in Feb. in Virginia.

Anyways, if the SEC wins, I think it's actually a good thing for MSU. It should help us to get elite players especially now that we've finally decided to compete instead of act like a bunch of pussies. It will help Ole Miss in baseball too.

Really, it's getting to the point that if you are a SEC team, if you get to Omaha, you've got a real good chance to win a NC. Virginia is the only other team that is in the CWS that has a shot, and they are no better than the third best team in this at best- I think it's Florida, Vandy, and then South Carolina in my opinion.

The PAC-10 has gone way down. Cal-Berkley is there only because they were in the Cinderella bracket. Arizona State is the best in that league, and they're about to be put on probation. USC is a train wreck right now. Oregon State is solid- but they're not much better than MSU right now. UCLA grossly underachieved this year.

The Big 12 hasn't had a good showing. Texas has a bunch of punch and judy hitters and some really good pitching.

The ACC is clearly the second best conference. Virginia is very solid, North Carolina is very good, and then they had some other pretty good teams like Florida State, Georgia Tech, Clemson, and Miami. They've also got some pretty bad teams such as Maryland, Duke and Virginia Tech that bring them down a little bit.

We're not too far from where the top SEC teams are right now. We should start to see our recruiting pick up and get even better- and we're already sort of starting to see that in the form of the interest from the "mystery blue chip recruit". Now, we have to start to land blue chip recruits and get them into school- Brandon Woodruff would be a pretty good start. But, I like where we are headed.
 

Todd4State

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I did pick the winner between Florida and South Carolina. Plus, I think it's pretty obvious even before the CWS who the best teams are. That was pretty much my point- the SEC is head and shoulders over everyone in baseball right now.

Plus look at the past three years- LSU, then South Carolina, and now probably Florida. And if not Florida, probably South Carolina. To me that's more impressive for a conference to do that because unlike the PAC-10 back in the day where it was pretty much USC or Arizona State, with the SEC, it's likely going to be three different teams as opposed to one dominant bell cow carrying the entire league.
 

RebelBruiser

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The SEC is head and shoulders above the rest of of the country in baseball, but this year, Florida, Vandy, and SC were head and shoulders above the rest of the SEC.

They went 65-18 combined against the rest of the league this year.

The SEC was 3 great teams, 2 horrible teams, and 7 teams that were a game or two either way from making/missing regionals altogether.

It reminds me a little of 2009, when Florida and Alabama both went undefeated and played in the SEC title game. They were on another plane above the rest of the league. Vanderbilt was awful. The rest of the league was a jumble of mediocre with 9 teams finishing between 3-5 and 5-3.