Baseball in the PAC 16

[cnstoll58]

Anybody getting excited about trips to Arizona and the Left Coast?

 

[texas_ex2000]

The SEC has much better baseball.

 

[petscii]

West coast trips for the win. It was hugely disappointing there was no west coast trip this year after making the trips since 2000.

All I'd need is a Whataburger within 300 miles and I'd never set foot in the central time zone again. There are Schlotzsky's in Portland and Spokane.

 

[WestGAHorn]

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[Bevo-Stevo]

Baseball competition in the Pac 16 would be amazing.

 

[cochamps]

WestGA,

sarcasm meter check?

 

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[PabTexas]

HOLY COW...do you realize that our poor aggy friends will now be the doormat of the PAC 16????

The baseball history of the PAC 16 will now be stout and the poor little aggys can only talk about their pathetic two all time wins at Omaha.

Playing USC, Stanford, and ASU consistently would be very cool.

 

[Max Powers]

And nothing but silence from Texas Ex2000...

"You can't handle the truth!!!"

 

[mharriss]

All the posts above assume that they will not split the conference for baseball like they do for football. A fifteen team confernce (remember that CU does not play baseball) would mean 14 weekend series, i.e. 42 games out of a 56 game schedule would be conference games. If we started the season at the same time, we would have one non-conference weekend series, possibly two if we do not have to have a conference tournament.

All that aside, the competition would be incredible and the out-of-town travel (except for Lubbock) would be great.

 

[slappinleather]

There would probably be two zones in the PAC 16. South and North. I dont think CU is in, Baylor has a shot. South Division Tech,OU,OSU,ASU,Zona,UCLA,USC,UT

 

[Texanne]

I am very excited about the prospect of playing more West Coast baseball. The sport is just sick out there and I think we benefit greatly from it.

**** the SEC. I had enough of that conference after Oxford in 2005.

 

[accuratehorn]

This will be a great baseball league, looking forward to teams which will be visiting Austin.

 

[Chest Rockwell]

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[TXR]

A couple comments.

First, from all the buzz, it looks just as likely that Texas ends up in the crappy baseball Big 10+ than in the Pac-10+.

But second, in order to be a dominating power, it is best to be in a moderately good conference (plenty of RPI 25-50 teams) with a couple good rivals (RPI top 25) than to be in a great conference (lots of RPI top 30). i.e. you want to dominate your conference for the most part and then get up for a few good series/games that give you legitimacy.

While I think Texas could hold its own in the Pac+ it would potentially diminish Texas' baseball dominance.

Pac 10 teams have had to share the stage with each other and have had to fight with CSF, Cal-Irvine, Pepperdine, Long Beach State, Fresno State, etc. just to get to Omaha. Meanwhile the SEC trades blows with lesser rated teams (according to Boyd's world) and usually has relatively easy paths to the CWS where it then underperforms.

In that respect, the old SWC and current B12 have been great for Texas baseball dominance. The Pac+ would not.

 

[celis]

Wonder how long it will get heated between us and ASU again.