The Aggies are 4th in April 13th's official NCAA RPI.
http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d1/rpi
Can I just take a minute to ***** and whine a bit about our non-conference scheduling?
To be more specific, our scheduling is fine, we'll have played a hard schedule, etc..., etc..
But we have at least 5 more wins and 4 fewer losses than the 3 teams above us in the RPI. Teams 5-8 in the RPI all have 8 to 12 losses.
That all comes down to strength of schedule. TCU is currently 6th, Oklahoma State is 12th, Oklahoma is 62, Texas Tech is 73, and lo-and-behold UT-Austin is 88.
We schedule exactly 1 former Big 12 opponent, Baylor, and that was scheduled for us by the folks in Houston. Meanwhile, we took it upon ourselves to schedule a double header with 238 UT-Pan American, 244 Incarnate Word, a home and home with 174 Sam Houston State, 300 Prairie View A&M...providing A&M with a unique tour of some of the worst teams our region. I hope you're all ready for 204 Abilene Christian.
I realize scheduling is a complicated process, but can we get over whatever butthurt remains with our old conference rivals and work on the non-conference schedule? Maybe it was just badluck, but having started 33-3, we've managed to schedule ourselves into risking a national seed if we lose a series or a game or two to the wrong people.
I'm sure some of its mutual butthurt...but there are so many good teams in this area and we're hardly playing them.
Sorry. Whine over.