2018 College Baseball Thread

[Coach Rab]

7 hours ago, HearEmaGrowlin said:

No one is saying it’s not good for a conference to do well and it doesn’t benefit each team. 

What I and I believe many others are saying is the A&M’s, Ole Miss’s, Missouri’s and Vanderbilt’s of the world are doing is trying to ride the coattails of the Alabama’s and UGA’s and are so proud of the SEC that it just gets really old and kind of embarrassing for the schools who don’t really contribute much to the overall success of the conference, but sure are proud of the successes of rival schools within the conference like y’all have done it yourselves.

Of course, all you SEC fans know it and understand where non-SEC fans are coming from and simply want to deflect and pretend you’re not doing exactly what’s been described.

The SEC chest bumping and media love is super frustrating to say the least.

There is a sense of conference pride in the SEC.  

However, you have seen a concerted effort from every school in the SEC over the past 10 years to improve the 3 major men's sports at their universities.  Vanderbilt actually had solid really good football teams under James Franklin, and they didn't make a slouch hire to replace him.  They have been top 10 in baseball, and at one point a few years back they were an NCAA tournament team in basketball.  

The cellar-dweller in the West in football is typically Mississippi St or Ole Miss.  Both of those schools have made runs at the SEC West title to come up short vs you know who.  The worst basketball school in the SEC, LSU, has made efforts to improve facilities and bring in top recruits.  Winning though... well, everyone in the SEC has improved more than them...  Then if you look at the beginning of this thread and the baseball thread last year, almost 75% of the top 25 are southern schools in College Baseball... mainly SEC schools.  

I think what this comes down to is how bad the B12's perception has become to the public.  We watch it, and we can see that its good football... its just different football.  The leadership at the top in the B12 has been weak and unstable at best.  Without its 2 flagship programs, the conference would die a horrible death.  Then you look at its next door neighbor, the SEC, it is a conference that thrives on perception and marketing.  Then the turncoat of the B12, Texas A&M, comes to the SEC and immediately has success in football, and people start talking about how they made the super conference even more super...  This essentially pisses of B12 people and starts the anti-SEC rhetoric.

Reality is that Bama is SEC football king.  Kentucky is SEC basketball king.  Everyone in the SEC has a shot in baseball.  Get used to it.  We have high standards, we have to just to keep up with the ones on top.

[Sportsfanatic1]

1 hour ago, MavGrad99 said:

There is a sense of conference pride in the SEC.  

However, you have seen a concerted effort from every school in the SEC over the past 10 years to improve the 3 major men's sports at their universities.  Vanderbilt actually had solid really good football teams under James Franklin, and they didn't make a slouch hire to replace him.  They have been top 10 in baseball, and at one point a few years back they were an NCAA tournament team in basketball.  

The cellar-dweller in the West in football is typically Mississippi St or Ole Miss.  Both of those schools have made runs at the SEC West title to come up short vs you know who.  The worst basketball school in the SEC, LSU, has made efforts to improve facilities and bring in top recruits.  Winning though... well, everyone in the SEC has improved more than them...  Then if you look at the beginning of this thread and the baseball thread last year, almost 75% of the top 25 are southern schools in College Baseball... mainly SEC schools.  

I think what this comes down to is how bad the B12's perception has become to the public.  We watch it, and we can see that its good football... its just different football.  The leadership at the top in the B12 has been weak and unstable at best.  Without its 2 flagship programs, the conference would die a horrible death.  Then you look at its next door neighbor, the SEC, it is a conference that thrives on perception and marketing.  Then the turncoat of the B12, Texas A&M, comes to the SEC and immediately has success in football, and people start talking about how they made the super conference even more super...  This essentially #### of B12 people and starts the anti-SEC rhetoric.

Reality is that Bama is SEC football king.  Kentucky is SEC basketball king.  Everyone in the SEC has a shot in baseball.  Get used to it.  We have high standards, we have to just to keep up with the ones on top.

SEC is bad to the bone in baseball it's a fact! It don't hurt none that the South East plays year around and, they also have the best athletes per capita in the country!

I also think they have the top 3 of 5 coaches in the country and A&M isn't one of them. JMO