The carnage of the NCAA regionals

[giveemhell]

An interesting take on the increased parity in college baseball: the Link

 

[Endust]

It's always been this way. In 2000 Texas beat ASU and got a Penn State team that had upset a home seed. We've beat Ole Miss and FSU on the road in supers to advance to Omaha.

….and the biggest upset of all, defending CWS champs Rice lost their home regional in 2004 with THREE pitchers (Niemann, Townsend and Humber) that were taken in the first round that same June.

After the two year absence of Texas in which I ignored the post-season, I had forgotten how much fun the Road to Omaha is...

 

[giveemhell]

This year really is unusual:

- For only the second time, the overall No. 1 seed (Oregon State) did not advance from the regional round
- Only three out of eight national seeds advanced
- A total of 10 conferences are represented in the Supers (it’s usually 7)
- The Sweet 16 round includes only 2 teams each from the SEC and ACC, and only 1 representative from the Pac-12

It's anarchy, I tell ya...

 

[SabreHorn]

Parity becomes much easier when the NCAA starts letting ******** schools with no academic requirements other than breathing into the tournament.

If a school doesn't play D-1 football, then they don't make the basketball or baseball tournament.

 

[lnghorn96]

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[HausFrau]

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[notanative]

What lnghorn96 asked +1.

And I didn't realize we were talking parity at the academic level, but only the talent level. Good players who don't get scholarships to Stanford gotta play somewhere.

 

[Brad Austin]

I think he's saying if you don't compete on that level in all 3 major sports, you shouldn't be able to weasel in with the only one you are good enough to compete with. Cherry picking for sure. I agree with that standard. Exceptions made of course for teams that don't field a team in that sport like Colorado in baseball. In that case they are simply not choosing to compete, thus doesn't effect any opponents on any level.

 

[Texanne]

My only problem with the selections this year is that eATMe U got in.

Other than that, I'm good.