Catching up, as I just got to Hoover

Maybe @Chase Parham knew the move was coming a while back or was burnt out, but the coverage this week in Hoover is better than any coverage we have gotten this year by far.

I would argue our resume is better than Auburn, UGA, and LSU. We won't get a NS, but we have better numbers than any of those 3 teams.

Going to be a late night from here in the Hoover Met.

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I won't be updating during the game. I will put together some postgame coverage.

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If I had told you in August that of the three major sports, football had the worst season what would you have thought? Certainly never saw that coming.

Now baseball still has to get to a Super but they are playing great right now.

So far as pitching?

You just try to get whatever you can from:
Calhoun, Hooks, Gonzalez, Rabe, Canney, and Waters

I wouldn't throw another pitch from Morris, McCausland, or Spencer

Deserves some damn credit. One of his best coaching jobs in 25 years regardless of how the next 1-3 weeks play out. This is a top 12-13 team in country and has been for most of the season. He put together a great roster.

To have this team hosting a regional is something I gave him zero chance of doing during the offseason. He's got them playing their best baseball at the most important time of the season.

I was wrong. Give me my crow well-done.

Ole Miss got a Funiss homer in the first. I was prepared for a 1:30 start. Pleasantly surprised to see an early start.

Here are the top 20 teams per the RPI. As I understand, the committee considers the RPI rank, the conference record (especially in the baseball conferences, which are the SEC, the ACC, and the Big 12), and the Quad 1 record. Considering the teams' performances in the conference tournaments, the conference record is not shown at this point. Also, the strength of schedule is not shown below.

Baseball America and D1 Baseball are both showing Texas as the #1 overall seed because of its 17-11 Quad 1 record. Oregon's 9-1 Quad 1 record is the best in the country, but they had a bunch of bad losses. Of the teams in the top 16, the Rebels' Quad 1 record at 19-14 is #2 behind Texas. At this point, the Rebs should be a national seed IMO.

.. Team........conf.....conf rec...record...Q1 rec
1 Vanderbilt SEC....(19-11) 41-16....17-14
2 Georgia SEC.......(18-12) 42-15....11-11
3 Auburn SEC .......(17-13) 38-18....15-12
4 Texas SEC.... ......(22-8) 42-12...17-11
5 Arkansas SEC... (20-10) 43-13...14-10
6 Ore. St.Indep (0-0) 41-12-1..11-11
7 Clemson ACC (18-12) 44-15....10-9
8 N.Carolina ACC (18-11) 40-12.....8-5
9 C.Carolina S.Belt (26-4) 47-11.....4-5
10 Ole Miss SEC (16-14) 40-18...19-14
11 LSU SEC (19-11) 43-14...13-11
12 FSU ACC (17-10) 38-13...13-9
13 Tenn. SEC (16-14) 43-16...14-11
14 UCLA B1G (22-8) 41-15.....3-7
15 Bama SEC (16-14) 41-16...14-12
16 TCU Big 12 (19-11) 39-17.....8-7
17 Florida SEC (15-15) 38-20...12-17
18 Oregon B1G (22-8) 42-14....9-1
19 D Baptist CUSA (21-6) 40-15...4-4
20 USM S Belt (24-6) 44-13....7-4

Unreal.