....in years. Next year most likely we pick back up those teams we didn't play this year. Arkansas, Vandy, and UT will likely pop back up on our screen, and we'll probably keep the tough teams we did play this year. I think Mizzou will be dropped and probably KY too. Too bad we didn't get BOC a year or two earlier than now.
This was one of our most favorable SEC baseball schedules.....
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That is true, but you don't need to get a scheduling break in baseball like you do in football. You can play the most brutal SEC baseball schedule, and, if you're good, your RPI will reflect it.
Football is where the schedule matters because you are trying to get to 10-2, no matter who you play. That is why2024 and 2025 are golden opportunities for Ole Miss football. If they don't make the CFP this year, Kiffin will likely leave before they do, especially if the SEC adds a 9th conference game.
I have a bad feeling they will make the CFP in 2025 despite not being as good as they were in 2024. With that schedule, they don't have to be great to win 10 games.
Football is where the schedule matters because you are trying to get to 10-2, no matter who you play. That is why
I have a bad feeling they will make the CFP in 2025 despite not being as good as they were in 2024. With that schedule, they don't have to be great to win 10 games.
I'm wondering who they got to replace the QB? They're bound to have taken a step back in that dept.
Who knows what the 2026 schedule will look like? I’ve given up on making sense of SEC schedules after what they did to us in football for 2024 & 2025. They freaking owe us another easy schedule for baseball 2026 & football 2026. But I think with the team O’Connor is putting together it won’t matter. But yeah, we really wasted a huge opportunity with the 2025 baseball schedule. We won’t see a schedule that favorable maybe ever again.
One way would be to have 2 2-game series in 1 weekend with travel partners. For example, State & UMiss could host LSU & Texas A&M one weekend and travel to Georgia & Florida another. And/or you could add an 11th weekend. Both wiuld get you to playing 13 of the other 15 teams. But wiuld be a 35-game SEC schedule so thst idea is probsbly DOA.
After seeing how wildly unbalanced the football & baseball schedules are, I really think the SEC needs to go to a pod system. 4 pods of 4 teams each. For football you play the 3 teams in your pod. Your pod play another pod, and you have a permanent opponent in the other 3 pods. That’s 9 games. In baseball you’d have to pick up another series bs one of the other 2 pods, maybe based on conference standing the year before
Were you born a little ***** or did you have to work at it?
My proposal would be: instead of 4 non-conference and 10 SEC weekends, play 2 non-conference and 12 SEC weekends. Every team plays some real duds in the non-conference anyway.
That gives you 12/15. Then play the other three teams once in single midweek games for a 39-game conference slate. (Or maybe play them all twice for 42 total games).
I would also support abolishing the conference tournaments and replacing it with another regular weekend (doubt that ever happens), or moving the CWS to August and just adding more weeks to the season (the Big 10 might like that).
I like all of those. But I think they’re all DOA. SEC doesn’t want that many conference games. And that would pretty much eliminate what few good non-conference games that are played now. Including the tournaments in Texas.
Need I remind you that the baseball fans on this board were in favor of exorcising The Bucket starting in '22, especially after '23 and even after last season? But, "it was too soon after The Natty" and Selmon was too new?
Not sure. Ask your Mom. You do live in the same house as her don't ya'?
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I was getting restless in 2024, but he seemed to be making a little progress so 2025 was the year. I was just speculating what it might have been like had we gotten BOC a year or 2 earlier. I think we'd probably be in Omaha right now. Water under the bridge though. Can only look forward.
We likely would not have hired BOC if we made the move earlier than we did. It all worked out.
Nick Saban was b!tching about Auburn Tennessee & LSU as permanent opponents if the SEC went with a 3-6 schedule rotation.
I don't mind the idea of playing more SEC games in baseball, expanding to 36 or 39 or even 42 instead of just 30. But it's going to make RPI even more powerful if that happens. Instead of having half the league within 3-4 games of each other like it is now, you'll have 12 teams within a couple games of each other with a 39 game schedule. The tiebreakers will matter more (and be more complex) to sort the standings, and the committee will lean on RPI more to separate the pack as the eye test will be more difficult to use.
Why not just play every team in the conference. Have first 2 weekends of non-con, then start conference play. Fifteen SEC weekend$$$$ for TV sounds better than 10.
We need to play more games period. MLB plays 162....why is college playing 55? Travel ballers play that many.
At minimum, every week of the season needs to have 5 games. 13 weeks x 5 = 65 + the opening weekend 3 so you're at 68. Expand another week, or make tournaments be more of a round robin so everybody gets at least 3 games, and you're at 71. You'll get a lot better idea of who the best teams are and you'll make teams develop pitching. And if they don't, well we have a run rule now so games don't drag on forever.
And while we're at it, move the season back a week or two. I've yet to hear a good reason why we can't do this. It would still end the season right before the 4th, and heck, what better way to celebrate that holiday than watching the CWS. Make it synonymous with freedom and all that, plus an MLB game and then lead into the All-Star game and MLB draft. Hell this sounds like a damn good idea to me.
And while we're still on it.....college basketball needs to add more games too. These guys are all getting paid now. 30 college games vs. 82 NBA games, explain that logic. Of course I also think NBA (and MLB) are too long themselves.
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