The field is set...

[RonnyAtmosphere]

..we'll play the pigs around noon Tues...


http://www.secdigitalnetw...ECSPORTS/BPLiveShow.aspx

 

[hotdigitydog]

match up with the hogs at all if Stratton is not pitching......Hell, we sweep UK and get a worse draw.......</p>

 

[mstatedawgs]

So for us to skip wed game we have to win and have ole miss win too

 

[lawdawg02]

Skipping LSU Wed would be huge.

 

[Eureka Dog]

Stick to the eight team tourney.

SEC moved the last series of the season to rest pitchers' arms, nowthey add games to the tourney.

 

[vhdawg]

But if you lose anywhere prior to that, you have to lose twice to be out.

 

[lawdawg02]

For tv. It's dumb. I likes what the CWS did by going to best of threes. Obviously we can't do that for the SECT.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Just do a 14-team single-elimination tournament. At least it would be consistently fair and not a contrived bracket.

 

[patdog]

LSU, USC get bye's on Tuesday, then the top 2 seed winners onTuesday get a bye Wednesday. Then the bracket finals are 1 game only instead of the team coming from the loser's bracket having to win 2. Add all those together and it took 4-6 games to win old 8-team tournament and it takes 4-6 games to win the new 10-team tournament. I don't really like this format for a 12-team league (why not just go ahead and take everybody and play a round-robin or single elimination tournament if you're only going to leave 2 out), but I do like it for the new 14-team league coming next year.

 

[patdog]

Even if one team came in at 3-0 and the other at 4-1, it's still been just a 1-game final.

 

[vhdawg]

There used to be "if necessary" games in the semis in case the winners bracket team lost. That's not there anymore.

 

[patdog]

you're out without a rematch. It's not a true double elimination tournament and it hasn't been for a long time.

 

[vhdawg]

It gives a distinct advantage to teams in the loser's bracket.

 

[patdog]

to one that changes to single elimination is bigger than when the change to single elimination occurs. The advantage to staying in the winner's bracket is that's where the byes are. I suspect that every coach in the conference is glad to know they won't have to play 2 games on Saturday then 1 on Sunday with a depleted pitching staff right before a regional starts anyway.

 

[MedDawg]

I don't like the 3-game CWS finish or the 3-game supers. I always liked it when the whole thing was a 6- or 8-team regional, the winner went on to the CWS, and the 8-team CWS didn't have brackets. They went deeper into a pitching staff. <div>
</div><div>I don't remember if the SEC tourney was the same way, but I'm guessing it was.</div><div></div><div>Of course, the 'new' format may favor our staff this year, so if we can get to a Super, then we may benefit from it.</div>