Maybe it's just me....
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nobody is really playing for anything, so I would agree. I mean I guess Vandy and LSU are trying to host
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We beat Vandy and Carolina 2-1 each in those series, we lost to vandy to even up the season and if we lose today to carolina we even there. Does that invalidate the fact that we beat them in the regular season when it really mattered?
quote:This is exactly my point. If you haven't "proven" what you are in 56 games, should another 3 or 4 games in a goofy format change the national perception of you? You win or lose and take your fate in 56 games. Period. For what it's worth I feel the same for basketball, football, etc.
The only "value" (make it interesting) in the tournament is if you have the potential to improve your seeding (or host potential) in the NCAA tournament. Teams like Vandy and LSU can maybe get a NS if they win the thing. Teams like Bama can potentially improve their seeding.
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You play to win. If trophies aren't important to you then quit playing. Winners win and losers make excuses. There is no switch on the backs of players that can be turned on and off. Let's BTHOCocks
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We are built to win a 3-game series, not some convoluted single elimination, then double elimination, then back to single elimination nonsense.
quote:quote:This is exactly my point. If you haven't "proven" what you are in 56 games, should another 3 or 4 games in a goofy format change the national perception of you? You win or lose and take your fate in 56 games. Period. For what it's worth I feel the same for basketball, football, etc.
The only "value" (make it interesting) in the tournament is if you have the potential to improve your seeding (or host potential) in the NCAA tournament. Teams like Vandy and LSU can maybe get a NS if they win the thing. Teams like Bama can potentially improve their seeding.
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Unfortunately I also agree with this. If you play, you play to win. Which is why I have always advocated for the completely irrational, impractical, tactic of forfeiting and not even showing up. I know no team would ever do it, you'd likely get fined or booted out of the conference, etc. if you did. But this is just how much I detest post-season conference tournaments. They do nothing to reward the teams that have earned their fate and everything to reward the teams that don't deserve a reward. And I think that particularly for the smaller conferences where they truly don't have deep pitching staffs. You can have a runaway conference winner, and then a scrub team gets hot for 3 days and *voila* the runaway winner is left at home during the playoffs.
quote:The tourny games should help almost everyone's RPI win or lose because they are Neutral site games and the quality of opponents in the SEC, correct?
Why does everything have to be of the utmost importance? Why can't something exist because the competition between league rivals is simply fun to watch?
As I stated in another thread, as long as the NCAA sanctions these tournaments, multibid conferences like the SEC should play them if simply for the additional quality competition above the 56 regular season games allowed. If the NCAA allowed an additional four games over the 56 to conferences that forgo the tournaments then maybe the SEC should drop the tournament, otherwise play the games.
quote:Yep, certainly happy it can't be the Aggies.
If Vandy and LSU aren't national seeds R.I.P. the seed that gets matched up with their regional.