13-17 SEC record bare minimum for postseason consideration?

Mustang1 said:

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13-17 SEC record bare minimum for postseason consideration?

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Yes

twk said:

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Mustang1 said:

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13-17 SEC record bare minimum for postseason consideration?

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Yes

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Yep. As long as we don't drop anymore midweeks as well and don't go 0-1 in SEC tournament

one interesting note...

Baseball America's regional projections for this week had Mississippi State in the "last four out" category

despite having a 1-8 SEC record

Other Saturday Top 25 Scores
Wake Forrest 12 - #4 Florida St. 0 (7)
#6 Clemson13 - Berkeley 3 (7)
#12 California-Irvine 2 - #11 Oregon St. 4
#13 Southern Miss 4 - Marshall 3
#13 Southern Miss 0 - Marshall 6 (DH)
San Diego 6 - #14 UCLA 7
Michigan 3 - #15 Oregon 13 (8)
Duke 7 - #19 North Carolina 8 (14)
#20 Troy 4 - Old Dominion 3
Arkansas St. 1 - #21 Coastal Carolina 4
Arizona 5 - #24 Arizona St. 3
#25 Georgia Tech 10 - Stanford 3

W said:

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one interesting note...

Baseball America's regional projections for this week had Mississippi State in the "last four out" category

despite having a 1-8 SEC record

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I'm guessing their non conference is strong

W said:

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there was discussion a couple of weeks ago...

that with the SEC up to 16 teams...and the league's schedules more unbalanced...and the league looking stronger than ever...

the old 13-17 guideline might slip down to 12-18 or even 11-19 for SEC teams that play top heavy schedules like A&M

such that the Ags' best path to the postseason is to build a quality-series-win resume. Something like:

at Tennessee
LSU
at Georgia
Cal Poly

take those 4 series wins to the committee (and take care of business vs. Carolina and Missouri)...and 12-18 might be good enough

(plus some Sorrell injury forgiveness)

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If you want to lay some hope on that theory, the number you need to watch carefully is RPI. 30 or better is what you'd be shooting for.

jkag89 said:

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Gators get swept by Vandy at home to fall to 1-11 in SEC play.

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Wow.

W said:

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there was discussion a couple of weeks ago...

that with the SEC up to 16 teams...and the league's schedules more unbalanced...and the league looking stronger than ever...

the old 13-17 guideline might slip down to 12-18 or even 11-19 for SEC teams that play top heavy schedules like A&M

such that the Ags' best path to the postseason is to build a quality-series-win resume. Something like:

at Tennessee
LSU
at Georgia
Cal Poly

take those 4 series wins to the committee (and take care of business vs. Carolina and Missouri)...and 12-18 might be good enough

(plus some Sorrell injury forgiveness)

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I think if your RPI is high enough overall that might work. 12-18 or 11-19 might start working for SEC teams more often. But I think you need an RPI in the 20s for it to work. Maybe the low 30s might slip in but I wouldn't feel comfortable at all at 12-18 with an RPI in the 30s.

It is interesting because we see SEC softball teams get in all the time with absolutely atrocious SEC conference records and very middling RPIs in the 40s. Historically, SEC baseball teams have NOT been given that luxury as it has seemed the selection committee has looked to punish SEC team with bad conference records unless they had stellar RPIs.

Gamecocks lost big today too.

dermdoc said:

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I tried to watch the sip/Georgia but seeing our former coach smirking in burnt orange made me nauseated.

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It's a tough watch for sure.

BurnetAggie99 said:

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Rob Childress almost beat Mingione ass one time. Rob hated that guy

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That's how you know he's an ass. Mini not Rob

UGa does nothing in the top 10. Middle 10 still tied at 3.

EDIT - sip walks it off with a solo HR to start their half of the 10th.

Sips just walked it off HR for the series sweep

AggieBB said:

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tjack16 said:

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dermdoc said:

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I tried to watch the sip/Georgia but seeing our former coach smirking in burnt orange made me nauseated.

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It really makes me nauseated seeing how good they are this year… i'm hoping somehow karma gets him but it's very frustrating to watch right now

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Would absolutely love to go over there and win their regional. Then give Schlossbag the finger.

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Won't happen in regional since we are in the same conference now … But if we win whatever regional we go to, it would be fun to knock them out in the supers

twk said:

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aginlakeway said:

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Texas is playing really well right now.

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I'd rather they play well now than in June. Everyone has an off week. Ask 2022 Tennessee.

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Agree.

aginlakeway said:

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twk said:

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aginlakeway said:

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Texas is playing really well right now.

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I'd rather they play well now than in June. Everyone has an off week. Ask 2022 Tennessee.

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Agree.

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Schloss is usually solid in the postseason though so I bet they are in Omaha.

tjack16 said:

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AggieBB said:

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tjack16 said:

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dermdoc said:

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I tried to watch the sip/Georgia but seeing our former coach smirking in burnt orange made me nauseated.

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It really makes me nauseated seeing how good they are this year… i'm hoping somehow karma gets him but it's very frustrating to watch right now

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Would absolutely love to go over there and win their regional. Then give Schlossbag the finger.

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Won't happen in regional since we are in the same conference now … But if we win whatever regional we go to, it would be fun to knock them out in the supers

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You say that, but it is going to be really tough to avoid putting SEC teams in the same regional. There are 16 regional sites and it would not surprise me if the league got 12 or 13 bids. Unless you over-seed some teams up to the 1 line or under-seed some teams down to the 3 line, it is going to be really difficult to avoid regional match ups. If the league stays strong over the last 6 weeks of the season, the committee will have to be really creative to keep the SEC teams from playing each other early.

Luke The Drifter said:

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tjack16 said:

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AggieBB said:

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tjack16 said:

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dermdoc said:

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I tried to watch the sip/Georgia but seeing our former coach smirking in burnt orange made me nauseated.

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It really makes me nauseated seeing how good they are this year… i'm hoping somehow karma gets him but it's very frustrating to watch right now

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Would absolutely love to go over there and win their regional. Then give Schlossbag the finger.

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Won't happen in regional since we are in the same conference now … But if we win whatever regional we go to, it would be fun to knock them out in the supers

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You say that, but it is going to be really tough to avoid putting SEC teams in the same regional. There are 16 regional sites and it would not surprise me if the league got 12 or 13 bids. Unless you over-seed some teams up to the 1 line or under-seed some teams down to the 3 line, it is going to be really difficult to avoid regional match ups. If the league stays strong over the last 6 weeks of the season, the committee will have to be really creative to keep the SEC teams from playing each other early.

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I'm pretty sure it's in the rules that no conference matchups can happen during the regional rounds.

the sips are headed to the #1 overall seed

and when t.u. is good...they get a tomato can path to the CWS