Has a preseason #1 ever missed the post season or did we just set ANOTHER aggie record.

92Ag95 said:

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Has a preseason #1 ever missed the post season or did we just set ANOTHER aggie record.

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I believe we were the first

And we were the ones to break the "curse of the #1 seed" last year and fall to #1 Tennessee. Another failure

Artorias said:

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92Ag95 said:

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Has a preseason #1 ever missed the post season or did we just set ANOTHER aggie record.

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I believe we were the first

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Damn...

So baseball first ever preseason #1 to watch regionals from home
and softball first ever #1 seed to get bounced from regionals

I really hate to imagine how we will top this.......but somehow I know we will.

Heads need to roll. We have been setting to many "first (good thing) to (bad thing)" records over the past few years. Football recruiting class, preseason baseball, softball national seed, etc. Its unacceptable.

The full list of hosts: No. 1 Vanderbilt, No. 2 Texas, No. 3 Arkansas, No. 4 Auburn, No. 6 LSU, No. 7 Georgia, No. 10 Mississippi and No. 14 Tennessee. Joining this group are Alabama, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, Florida and Kentucky. As you can tell, there is simply no conference that's close to the SEC.

The SEC's 13 teams in the tournament are two more than its then-record 11 that made it in 2024.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/45332141/no-1-vanderbilt-leads-13-sec-teams-ncaa-baseball-tournament

Sadly, we joined Missouri and South Carolina as the only 3 SEC teams that failed to make the tournament because we got swept by Missouri at home and lost all 3 games by 3+ runs each. It's even more perplexing how Missouri outscored us by a combined 23-8, including 22-2 in the last 23 innings (8-0 in the last 5 innings of Game 1, 4-1 in Game 2, and 10-1 in Game 3). Then, Missouri gets swept by Mississippi State at home and lost all 3 games by 10+ runs each. Mississippi State outscored Missouri by a combined 50-11. Consequently, Missouri finished with the historically worst SEC record of 3-27 in the 30-game era that began in 1996. The previous worst seasons belonged to Vanderbilt (5-24, 2000), Georgia (5-23, 2010), and Alabama (5-24-1, 2017).

https://sports.yahoo.com/article/missouri-baseballs-regular-season-ends-220328568.html

HJack20 said:

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Heads need to roll. We have been setting to many "first (good thing) to (bad thing)" records over the past few years. Football recruiting class, preseason baseball, softball national seed, etc. Its unacceptable.

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What are you going to do about it ?

Nothing

If he is retained what are you going to do about it ?

Nothing

These threads keep coming

People are pissed he is still the coach as of 11:20am today

If we are retaining him then no annoucement is made

If we have someone lined up you dont say a word if he still has his team in postseason (hell even Texas waited 24 hours after correct?)

so these threads are meaningless

Counterpoints - tournament winners are hot at the right time, not beneficiaries of a soft schedule and healthy team in March. Also, you have to win a tournament to advance to a Super, or advance in Omaha.

Dirt 05 said:

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Counterpoints - tournament winners are hot at the right time, not beneficiaries of a soft schedule and healthy team in March. Also, you have to win a tournament to advance to a Super, or advance in Omaha.

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And those are all metrics that the committee uses to select at-large teams so that's already in play. Strength of schedule, injuries, how teams are finishing, etc. The committee can already use those variables. I suppose it would impact the smallest schools as they're unlikely to ever get an at-large. But it certainly seems no less fair.

If you have a post season conference tourney then I like the way the Ivy does it where only the top 4 get invited. At last that way you're rewarding one of the better teams.

The tournament format the SEC uses clearly rewards teams that did well in the regular season. And I'm fine with that one.

It is far better this year, yes.

And honestly the ACC/SEC isn't the place you're likely to see a stolen bid anyway. I do hate it for the small conferences where you can have the season of your life, win your conference, then get left out because of a single bad day.

Yeah

I guess they do that one thinking the could get two teams in the field or reward the team that's playing well at the end of the year.

92Ag95 said:

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Has a preseason #1 ever missed the post season or did we just set ANOTHER aggie record.

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The winner of the previous year's national championship has not made the playoffs the next year many times.

Oooohhhh... Dory is gonna be me at D1 Joe!!

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Softest Regional for 1 seed: Generally speaking I think the committee did an excellent job of balancing the regionals, but Oregon State has a chance to march through its regional. TCU is a high-end two seed that had an argument to host, but crossing two time zones to get up to Oregon makes it tougher for the Horned Frogs, and assuming they use Tommy LaPour in the opening game against USC, I like Oregon State's ability to score runs against the rest of the TCU pitching staff. The Beavers will also have a high level of comfort with USC, given that it was a conference mate until this season, and the Trojans were a bubble team that snuck in as one of the last four teams in the field.

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I definitely don't agree that it's the softest at all.
I'd also save TLP because I know that we can score a lot of runs on USC.

2 of the other previews had it as the hardest regional but that didn't fit my narrative, so I didn't share those.

HJack20 said:

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And we were the ones to break the "curse of the #1 seed" last year and fall to #1 Tennessee. Another failure

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What an inane and pathetic comment. I have never seen a fan base that will regularly put negative spin on something like making it to the Championship Final. I will never understand why so many Aggies dwell in their pity parties even with good to excellent seasons.

Any of number of teams could have knocked out the #1 Vols either in the Regionals, Supers or CWS before the Aggies faced them in the Championship Series. In the 25 full seasons since the Super Regional Format was established two #1 seeds won the Natty (1999, 2024). Three failed to win their Regional. Six lost in the Supers. Twelve in the elimination part of the CWS (3 went 0-2, 3 went 1-2, and 6 went 2-2). This means only four #1 seeds even made to the Championship portion of the of the CWS yet somehow the Vols winning last season is the Aggies failure.

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AggieBB said:

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UTSA will win that regional

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That would be a no.

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A what? LOL

AggieBB said:

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Agsttt said:

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AggieBB said:

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UTSA will win that regional

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That would be a no.

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A what? LOL

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I wanted it but wasn't sure it could happen. Nice call!