2023 college baseball/softball thread

Yet.

Tennessee's top two receivers played the season finale against Vanderbilt . . . and skipped the bowl game against Clemson. Why bother with the former if you're going to skip the latter?

And the team putting up record numbers through last year's regular season which also won the SEC title didn't make it.

 

That's really all it comes down to. The mistake is in comparing this to MLB.

The mop-up pitchers that are run out there when things start getting out of hand in the Rockies-Reds game have earned their way into the majors.

In the same situation in college baseball, they're turning to raw freshmen or "mistake" recruits who haven't been eased out of the program yet.

 

DVH will be in the running for “Best college baseball coach to never win a title.”

 

Rocco’s has yet to post the final Jell-O shot tote board. They may need to send the coroner by to collect.

 

May take a while. The equivalent of late-reporting precincts and absentee ballot and mail ballot processing.

 

The returns are in.
LSU accounts for 72% of the total. They took 17 shots for every one by Florida.
The LSU total is one for every three residents of Baton Rouge.

 

Florida's starting rotation of Brandon Sproat, Hurston Waldrep and Jac Caglianone was a huge reason why the Gators made it to the CWS. Unfortunately, the trio did not have its best stuff in the best-of-three series against LSU. The threesome combined to pitch 7 2/3 innings (12 H, 11 R, 11 ER, 14 BB, 11 SO) with a 12.91 ERA in three games against the Tigers.

 

The hits can be explained by LSU being damn good. The walks are inexcusable.

 

I wonder why it is the Gators have such a puny traveling fan base in all sports. They’ve long had the largest enrollment of the OG conference schools. Their grads make good money. For the most part they’ve had good to great teams to follow. It’s easy enough to catch a flight out of Jax, Orlando or Tampa. And yet they’re box office poison.

 

Credit to the SEC schools for their investment, but I find college baseball less fun when it's so dominated by one conference and no longer has as much room for Long Beach State, Fullerton, Wichita State, Rice, Tulane, Pepperdine, etc. Even the Pac-12 schools added some variety. I know TV ratings are great, but it doesn't seem ideal to shrink the pool of possible title-winning states to six or seven.

 

ESPN execs have no idea what your complaint is about

 

The SEC didn't win its first national championship until 1990. Was it more fun before that, when USC, Arizona State and Texas dominated the sport?