RPI Update!1!

[engie]

#24 now, per Warren Nolan.

I think it is incorrect in calling the Autozone Park game a road game though, so they probably have us a little overrated. Either way -- just need to keep winning. We're certainly back in position to make a regional now.

 

[8dog]

We are ahead of louisville. The metric that never ceases to amaze

 

[Mayor of Little London]

Like it. Go Dawgs

 

[57stratdawg]

Helps playing on Thursday while everyone else watches.

Damn good win though.

 

[messageboardsuperhero]

It's amazing what five games (win or lose) can do to the psyche of hormonal message board posters.

We are what we are. Not a host team, not an elite team, but a postseason team. We're swinging it well with the top of our order right now and our pitching has shown some toughness. We are still woefully depleted on the mound for a variety of reason, which is why we will likely stay out of the hosting discussion. But never fear- we will go through another dry spell this season and people will again want to jump off the ledge.

One big picture thing that I do like and should carry over in the future is the scrappy/tough nature of this team. I think that will be a Cannizzaro staple.

 

[Todd4State]

I don't understand why you think playing Memphis at Autozone Park would not be considered a road game? I certainly think it should be. It's in Memphis and their other stadium can't accommodate our fans. It's in their city. And I may be wrong but I think Memphis considers Autozone Park to be considered one of their home stadiums. They certainly treat it as such when we play there.

 

[BiscuitEater]

I think it is incorrect in calling the Autozone Park game a road game though, so they probably have us a little overrated.

If we don't alternate 'home/away' team designations .. it's usually considered a road game. Seems like we are always the 'visitor' when we play Memphis there .. thus the 'road game' designation.

 

[8dog]

Kendall rogers tweeted when asked that it would be a neutral game

 

[Bulldogg31]

nm

 

[bulldogcountry1]

#24 now, per Warren Nolan.

I think it is incorrect in calling the Autozone Park game a road game though, so they probably have us a little overrated. Either way -- just need to keep winning. We're certainly back in position to make a regional now.

It's confusing how that works sometimes. As far as I can recall, it's been a long time since we played Memphis at their home stadium, wherever that is. There may be something in writing that states that's the agreement. Anytime you go on the road to play a team in their hometown and you are the visiting team, it should be a road game. It shouldn't matter what stadium it's in. Like the Dodger Stadium classic last year. We got two away games out of UCLA and USC.

 

[ShrubDog]

One big picture thing that I do like and should carry over in the future is the scrappy/tough nature of this team. I think that will be a Cannizzaro staple.

There is one thing that this team will never do, give up. Coach used to always be one of the smaller players on our team back in the days but he never backed down and was a tremendous leader.

 

[Willow Grove Dawg]

If we win games, the RPI will take care of itself. The league RPI is incredible. Andy should be SEC Coach of the Year if we make the NCAA tourney.

 

[engie]

The spirit of the rule is to both account for home field advantage and to encourage teams to go on the road. Memphis may be close to their campus, but it isn't a home game for them against us IMO. Now, if they truly don't rotate home and away at the site, that is a problem...

 

[patdog]

Hope I don't jinx us, but I may have been wrong about this team. Great win last night. Split the next two and this is an outstanding weekend.

 

[Go Budaw]

Kendall rogers tweeted when asked that it would be a neutral game

That's ********. We should never play another game there if that is the case.

 

[Todd4State]

The spirit of the rule is to both account for home field advantage and to encourage teams to go on the road. Memphis may be close to their campus, but it isn't a home game for them against us IMO. Now, if they truly don't rotate home and away at the site, that is a problem...

They don't rotate home/home there because they play us in Starkville every other year and we don't play in Memphis every year- just the years we don't play them in Starkville. Because of that alone it should be counted as a road game because otherwise we would never get the benefit of playing them on the road and be penalized for playing at a AAA park and because we have a good fan base.

That said- I would be more than OK playing a game at Autozone every year but that isn't how the current agreement is set up.

 

[patdog]

It should count as a road game, but that's not how RPI treats it. I don't see any reason why we should play them in Memphis every year. The RPI effect is next to nothing in a 56+ game schedule (counting the SEC tournament).

 

[Go Budaw]

The spirit of the rule is to both account for home field advantage and to encourage teams to go on the road. Memphis may be close to their campus, but it isn't a home game for them against us IMO. Now, if they truly don't rotate home and away at the site, that is a problem...

They don't. They used to just consider it neutral every year, but I was hoping they had changed that classification. It was considered a neutral site game in 2013 or 2014 too because I remember complaining about it then when the host sites were being selected.

I don't give a crap who has the most fans at the game, who bats in the top/bottom of innings, what color the uniforms are, or which school's PA announcer is calling it. A game in downtown Memphis against Memphis should never be considered a neutral site game for anyone outside of a 901 area code. Point blank period.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Hope I don't jinx us, but I may have been wrong about this team. Great win last night. Split the next two and this is an outstanding weekend.

Sounded like our dugout was on fire last night. Maybe we have kicked the ******** out of the team and improved their psyche

Make the NCAA or not, it was good to see some fire last night

 

[patdog]

Maybe we have kicked the ******** out of the team and improved their psyche

Was thinking that myself too. Get rid of a couple of guys and suddenly the whole team starts playing better. May be a coincidence, maybe not.

 

[Thirty-Two Dive]

We are ahead of louisville. The metric that never ceases to amaze

Does this mean we'd have to trade Defensive Coordinators again, as a result?***

 

[Hoover Dawg]

Ya'll are crazy if you really consider playing at Autozone to be a home game for Memphis. Probably many more MSU fans there than them. If it's not at FedEx Park or whatever their home stadium is (where they can restrict visitor access due to having the home team owning season tickets) then it's not a home game.

Plus, we get recruiting value from playing in that stadium in that metro area, same as we in Jackson or on the Coast.

 

[Ishmael]

Of course the game at Autozone Park should be considered a road game for State and a home game for Memphis. We play in Starkville every other year and in Memphis every other year, it just happens to be at Autozone Park. Memphis is always the home team when the game is at Autozone Park, Memphis students get in free with a student ID, the public purchases tickets through the Memphis Athletic Department (who I assume gets the gate from the game), the Memphis announcer is the PA announcer, and the Memphis batters have their walk-up music played. It may not matter much for the RPI, I'm not sure, but everyone else treats it like a home game for Memphis and a road game for State.

 

[Hoover Dawg]

I can semi-go with that, if that is all truly the case. Essentially moving it ONLY for extra seating. So maybe calling folks crazy was strong, but I am still firmly in the neutral site camp for now (while we're going on assumptions).

 

[Ishmael]

The only assumption we're going on is how they do the revenue from the gate. I've been to the last 4 or 5 State games at Autozone Park, and everything else I mentioned has been the case at every one of them.