tjack16 said:
One of these days A&M will experience a big 3 national title
Wait on the announcement of my passing. It'll happen immediately after that.
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chap said:
This just really devalues the regular season for me.
It does not devalue the regular season for me because you still have to win enough regular season games to make the tournament. Once a team gets in, they can get hot and make an incredible run against several national seeds, but national seeds historically have a much better chance of winning the College World Series. Since the NCAA tournament expanded, national seeds (top 8) routinely dominate the field, making up the vast majority of Omaha attendees and frequently winning the championship. On average, roughly 4.4 out of the 8 teams that make it to Omaha are top-8 national seeds. The remaining spots are usually filled by a mix of unseeded Cinderella teams carrying hot momentum and only one or two No. 9-16 seeds. That's why the regular season still matters immensely.
OU winning a baseball NC with tons of Texas talent just like they used to do in football. 17 Texas kids on their roster.
Gig ‘Em Baby!
Who would you rather be in terms of these championships? I think LSU since football and baseball are my primary sports. Florida seems the most balanced over the big 3 though
Edit: like you get to take the championships and give them to A&M
Edit: like you get to take the championships and give them to A&M
Depends... do you actually have to be an LSU fan and cajun and coonass and everything else being an LSU fan entails?
Nothing is worth that.
Nothing is worth that.
swimmerbabe11 said:
Depends... do you actually have to be an LSU fan and cajun and coonass and everything else being an LSU fan entails?
Oh for sure not. I was saying if you could give the championships from one of these schools to your school
Florida for me bc they are the only school ever that was done it In all 3. And they have another football one in 96.
And their diploma actually means something.
I also think football and basketball championships are lot bigger than college baseball. For me, it's the big 2 and I love baseball.
And their diploma actually means something.
I also think football and basketball championships are lot bigger than college baseball. For me, it's the big 2 and I love baseball.
Gig ‘Em Baby!
we will thank you for your sacrifice!!!dixichkn said:tjack16 said:
One of these days A&M will experience a big 3 national title
Wait on the announcement of my passing. It'll happen immediately after that.
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weren't even the best team in their own conference in the last 5 years winning it all, it isn't a national championship
I was just replying to your statement...
Since Arkansas did not catch that foul ball in 2018.
Every college baseball national champion has come from a state that borders Arkansas.
2019 Vanderbilt
2021 Mississippi State
2022 Ole Miss
2023 LSU
2024 Tennessee
2025 LSU
2026 Oklahoma
I guess it's a Texas or Missouri school next year.
Every college baseball national champion has come from a state that borders Arkansas.
2019 Vanderbilt
2021 Mississippi State
2022 Ole Miss
2023 LSU
2024 Tennessee
2025 LSU
2026 Oklahoma
I guess it's a Texas or Missouri school next year.
Gig ‘Em Baby!
LB12MEEN said:
Since Arkansas did not catch that foul ball in 2018.
Every college baseball national champion has come from a state that borders Arkansas.
2019 Vanderbilt
2021 Mississippi State
2022 Ole Miss
2023 LSU
2024 Tennessee
2025 LSU
2026 Oklahoma
I guess it's a Texas or Missouri school next year.
Now this is Twilight Zone stuff.
Nevermind
I was just coming here to post this.
That may be the worst battered fan syndrome I have ever seen
That may be the worst battered fan syndrome I have ever seen
Maybe it's TCU next year. They border the hogs!
Gig ‘Em Baby!
LB12MEEN said:
Maybe it's TCU next year. They border the hogs!
from your lips to God's ears!!!!! May it be so!!! AMEN!
I would be so insufferable y'all. You would never be able to say nothin to me ever again. I'd be a whole different swimmmy. a better swimmy. a more joyous swimmy. a much much much more arrogant swimmy.
Yet, you'll still be my Dory
SteveA said:Quote:
A&M will definitely win a natty. However, with BAS apparently a legitimate thing, it will likely be in football first as basketball and baseball are more fine tuned, cerebral games where BAS could affect the players more in a late game situation. Football is more of a "knock the guy in front of you on his ass" type of sport.
Basketball is more cerebral?
Basketball and baseball take a deft touch to hit the shot or paint the corners. Football is much more primal in that smashing your opponent enough likely gets you a positive result.
After listening to the combine today, apparently part of the reason exit velo is discussed so much is that it has become a big scouting metric, even though I heard a lot of them say that they are still mostly looking at body language and mechanics at this stage.
merc said:
Kinda lame to watch the schools on all sides of us win men's major sports championships my entire life. I just need one. That's it. Just one.
Just out of curiosity, what is it going to do for you in your life that will change it so much? Will you still keep watching Aggie sports? I mean, I get it to a degree, I remember when the Astros won their World Series and I was very happy because I had followed them my whole life, but then the next just started all over again.
I don’t get enough credit for the things I manage not to say.
swimmerbabe11 said:The young kid who got Kyle Branch’s HR ball in the championship gave it back to the family and the person who got Kolby’s from the semifinals contacted Rusty Branch to give it to him. 🥹
— Ana Bellinghausen (@AnaBellMedia) June 23, 2026
So both Branch boys’ final at-bats of year were homers and the family has both baseballs. pic.twitter.com/KbTf7diC89
That's really cool.
I don’t get enough credit for the things I manage not to say.
QRI-Ag said:
Still trying to figure out how TF OU pulled that off. They were decent in the SEC, but hardly elite.
It's really not hard. They just started playing really good ball and beat everyone they needed to. That's it. That's all it is. That's the way sports is.
I don’t get enough credit for the things I manage not to say.
I'm sorry, but it doesn't devalue the season.
Sad that you look at it like that, but it's your choice.
It's really that simple.
Let's look forward to next year.
Sad that you look at it like that, but it's your choice.
It's really that simple.
Let's look forward to next year.
I don’t get enough credit for the things I manage not to say.
annie88 said:merc said:
Kinda lame to watch the schools on all sides of us win men's major sports championships my entire life. I just need one. That's it. Just one.
Just out of curiosity, what is it going to do for you in your life that will change it so much? Will you still keep watching Aggie sports? I mean, I get it to a degree, I remember when the Astros won their World Series and I was very happy because I had followed them my whole life, but then the next just started all over again.
So fans shouldn't root for their favorite team to win a championship because it won't have a tangible impact on their lives?
I'm not sure I understand your point here.
HoustonAg2106 said:annie88 said:merc said:
Kinda lame to watch the schools on all sides of us win men's major sports championships my entire life. I just need one. That's it. Just one.
Just out of curiosity, what is it going to do for you in your life that will change it so much? Will you still keep watching Aggie sports? I mean, I get it to a degree, I remember when the Astros won their World Series and I was very happy because I had followed them my whole life, but then the next just started all over again.
So fans shouldn't root for their favorite team to win a championship because it won't have a tangible impact on their lives?
I'm not sure I understand your point here.
That's not what I said at all. Of course you root for your team regardless but people just act like their life and happiness depends on winning a national championship, seemingly acting or saying that Otherwise they can't enjoy it. We have people down here saying the whole season was devalued because of OU's win. That's just ****ing weird. I just don't understand being that cynical.
But if people want to be miserable and whine about it go ahead. I'm going to enjoy Aggie baseball and I'm going to enjoy college baseball. Sports is an amazing thing. It's so unpredictable and that's what makes it so amazing. I've had season tickets for 14 years believe me I was disappointed That we lost the regional too. But I didn't whine about it, and I moved on and watched the rest of the playoffs. You can't change the past. You just have to look forward if you fall short. We learn a lot more from our failures than our successes.
We can agree to disagree, but it really wasn't hard at all what I was saying.
I don’t get enough credit for the things I manage not to say.
Read what she wrote. Her point of view is so crystal clear you can see the trout…HoustonAg2106 said:annie88 said:merc said:
Kinda lame to watch the schools on all sides of us win men's major sports championships my entire life. I just need one. That's it. Just one.
Just out of curiosity, what is it going to do for you in your life that will change it so much? Will you still keep watching Aggie sports? I mean, I get it to a degree, I remember when the Astros won their World Series and I was very happy because I had followed them my whole life, but then the next just started all over again.
So fans shouldn't root for their favorite team to win a championship because it won't have a tangible impact on their lives?
I'm not sure I understand your point here.
greg.w.h said:Read what she wrote. Her point of view is so crystal clear you can see the trout…HoustonAg2106 said:annie88 said:merc said:
Kinda lame to watch the schools on all sides of us win men's major sports championships my entire life. I just need one. That's it. Just one.
Just out of curiosity, what is it going to do for you in your life that will change it so much? Will you still keep watching Aggie sports? I mean, I get it to a degree, I remember when the Astros won their World Series and I was very happy because I had followed them my whole life, but then the next just started all over again.
So fans shouldn't root for their favorite team to win a championship because it won't have a tangible impact on their lives?
I'm not sure I understand your point here.
When you ask someone "what is it going to do for you in your life that will change it so much?" there is an implication that what you are really saying is why do you care so much if it doesn't actually impact your life even though that's the whole point of being a fan.
The rest of what she said was just about how she felt when the Astros finally won
My guess is for many of them, they still have not learned the following.
"What someone else thinks of you is none of your business"
Thus, winning one would help them with concerns of other fan bases.
The funny thing about that. It's not going to change anything in that regard.
Now if they need it to help their troll game of other fan bases. It might help a little but if you have game, you can mess with your rivals anytime easily. Especially the ones that have not learned the quote above.
Speaking of the Astros, they have spoiled me this past decade!
"What someone else thinks of you is none of your business"
Thus, winning one would help them with concerns of other fan bases.
The funny thing about that. It's not going to change anything in that regard.
Now if they need it to help their troll game of other fan bases. It might help a little but if you have game, you can mess with your rivals anytime easily. Especially the ones that have not learned the quote above.
Speaking of the Astros, they have spoiled me this past decade!
Gig ‘Em Baby!
annie88 said:
I'm sorry, but it doesn't devalue the season.
Sad that you look at it like that, but it's your choice.
It's really that simple.
Let's look forward to next year.
Actually, it does.
When you can go sub-.500 in conference play but still call yourself the national champion, your conference season is meaningless.
It's a flaw in the format of the baseball postseason.
Here is a fun question for the older fans on here: Back before the '99 season when they started the super regional format and expanded to 64 teams, were there any teams making it to Omaha who had a losing record in conference play? Anyone remember one?
I always thought the eight regional format with 48 teams was better than the expanded format, but '22 Ole Miss and '26 Oklahoma really underline that point.
You have to separate the two.
Yes a team could go undefeated in the marathon of a regular season and not win the tournament.
There are seasons and there are tournaments. Chess & go fish. Sometimes you win both.
Yes a team could go undefeated in the marathon of a regular season and not win the tournament.
There are seasons and there are tournaments. Chess & go fish. Sometimes you win both.
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It's a flaw in the format of the baseball postseason.
Here is a fun question for the older fans on here: Back before the '99 season when they started the super regional format and expanded to 64 teams, were there any teams making it to Omaha who had a losing record in conference play? Anyone remember one?
You didn't have super conferences stacked with a bunch of teams capable of winning the title back then. The SEC won its first national title in 1990.
Also, if you go back a little bit further in time, regionals were literally regional, and before the mid 70s, only conference champs went. The Maine Black Bears weren't super strong, but they went to Omaha regularly because they were the strongest in their region, while the number 2 and 3 SWC teams stayed home. USC always won the Pac, Arizona and Arizona State traded off in the WAC, Texas usually won the SWC, OSU won the Big 8 auto bid 17 years in a row.
The six team regionals were fun, but they were a test of pitching depth that wouldn't fit with modern coaching ethics (now that Augie is no longer with us, no one is running a guy out for 200 pitches in a weekend tournament unless he's a knuckleballer or something like that). The last time we hosted one of these in 1998, Mississippi State, who was a 3 seed that went 14-15 in the SEC (good for 6th) won and went to Omaha. That's at a time when the SEC was just becoming the monster conference it is today.
We can argue about whatever the regular season is meaningless but you know what this REALLY highlights?? The post season conference tourney is REALLY REALLY meaningless.
Or in small conferences, because of a stupid administrative decision is actually the ONLY thing that matters. Go 5-25 in the Horizon, get hot for 5 days and go to the tourney, leaving a 22-8 regular season champ at home. Now THAT is brutal.
I wish we could find a way to go back to true round robin conferences (Max 10 teams). No conference tourneys, no arguing about unbalanced schedules.
Or, and I'd love to watch the mega conference teeth gnashing... If you're going to have post season conference tourneys, the regular season AND tourney champ get in. That'd cut a ton of p4 schools out of the tournament. It'll never happen, and frankly it's a terrible idea. But given I want to see the end of mega conferences and useless post season conference tourneys, I'm all in on this bad idea.
Or in small conferences, because of a stupid administrative decision is actually the ONLY thing that matters. Go 5-25 in the Horizon, get hot for 5 days and go to the tourney, leaving a 22-8 regular season champ at home. Now THAT is brutal.
I wish we could find a way to go back to true round robin conferences (Max 10 teams). No conference tourneys, no arguing about unbalanced schedules.
Or, and I'd love to watch the mega conference teeth gnashing... If you're going to have post season conference tourneys, the regular season AND tourney champ get in. That'd cut a ton of p4 schools out of the tournament. It'll never happen, and frankly it's a terrible idea. But given I want to see the end of mega conferences and useless post season conference tourneys, I'm all in on this bad idea.
You know the one thing I like about the SEC tournament? It's the perfect time for me to take a vacation and not feel like I'm missing anything.
Sean98 said:
We can argue about whatever the regular season is meaningless but you know what this REALLY highlights?? The post season conference tourney is REALLY REALLY meaningless.
Or in small conferences, because of a stupid administrative decision is actually the ONLY thing that matters. Go 5-25 in the Horizon, get hot for 5 days and go to the tourney, leaving a 22-8 regular season champ at home. Now THAT is brutal.
I wish we could find a way to go back to true round robin conferences (Max 10 teams). No conference tourneys, no arguing about unbalanced schedules.
Or, and I'd love to watch the mega conference teeth gnashing... If you're going to have post season conference tourneys, the regular season AND tourney champ get in. That'd cut a ton of p4 schools out of the tournament. It'll never happen, and frankly it's a terrible idea. But given I want to see the end of mega conferences and useless post season conference tourneys, I'm all in on this bad idea.
Also will never happen but cut the post season tournament to 32 teams. Two weekends of best of 3 series. 8 advance to Omaha.
Rewards regular season success and a 5 win conference champ who got hot late could still be left out by a selection committee unless their conference rules dictate that only the conference tourney winner is eligible for post season selection.
This incentivizes the regular season Sun Belt leader to not lose their tourney to the last place team.
You didn't enjoy Holy Cross and South Dakota State making it?
I was at that '98 Regional and remember State winning, I had completely forgotten that they had a losing record in conference play.
Gustafson also liked to abuse his pitchers.
With full rosters and the NIL, I don't think you have the same concerns about pitching depth.
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