2012 College Baseball- Road to Omaha

It's gotta be damn near impossible to be in an 8-team tournament 21 times and not fuck up and win it once.

 

That's why the overall ACC drought astonishes me. As good a baseball conference as that is, as deep as it is, as many times as they've sent teams to Omaha in the last 57 years and come close to winning it, how can they not have lucked into at least a few titles?

 

Maybe they aren't that good.

 

Even if you aren't that good, it's baseball. The 61 Yankees lost a third of their games. In an 8-team tournament it just blows my mind that one team could manage 21 shots and not win it once. Or that a conference could have that many kicks at the can and not pull one out.

 

In the years before scholarship limits, Northern Colorado was one of the places on the short list for top players who wanted to play college ball. There's another one on that list that would probably surprise you, although it has half the appearances and came later in the time line.

 

Exactly. Hell, Arkansas finished sixth in the SEC this year and is one win away from the championship series. Baseball is a goofy game. Putting roughly 50 teams into the College World Series in a 57-year span and not winning even one championship is on par with DiMaggio's hitting streak.

 

Maine? Seemed like they were there all the time in late 70s-early 80s.

 

Southern Illinois.

 

Plus when Miami joined wouldn't you think they would've ended it.

 

Just now getting to watch Florida State-Arizona. God, FSU looks awful.

 

I will be in Omaha at the CWS for the first game of the championship series... Any other SJers there?

 

CWS berths used to be determined strictly on a regional basis. Northern Colorado had the best team in the Rocky Mountain Region, just like Maine had the best team in the Northeast. Not exactly sure when it changed, probably just after the Billy Swift/Mike Bordick era at Maine.