UL @ UTA - G3

[cajundiehard]

---Well I guess we are going someplace and I just don't want LSU or Baton Rouge---I just know that the committees want Baton Rouge for the number of seats!!! Can we still host an initial series???

Maybe we could host a regional and get paired with Rice for a Super???

[Cajunologist]

We just need to get to 48-50 wins and we will be national seed, doesn't matter who beats us.

[GoneGolfin]

---Well I guess we are going someplace and I just don't want LSU or Baton Rouge---I just know that the committees want Baton Rouge for the number of seats!!! Can we still host an initial series???

Certainly. If the season ended today, the Cajuns would be hosting as a #1 seed (non national seed). But they need to play well down the stretch to keep it. As I said, the schedule is not in their favor.

Brian

[CajunDreDog]

No. FIU is having a decent season, but is not an at-large team at this time. FAU is having a poor season and is 10th in the also not strong CUSA (actually weaker than the Sun Belt). Middle Tennessee is also having a poor season. So even if FAU, FIU, and Middle are in the Sun Belt this year ... it is the same weak story.

Southern Miss is 2nd in CUSA (13-5), trailing Rice (16-5) whom is setting themselves up for a possible national seed.

Brian

I was hoping it was the loss of the Florida teams and not that the SBC just sucks yet again.

So I guess this shows that beating bad teams is worse than losing to good teams in the RPI formula.

[Dad04]

I was hoping it was the loss of the Florida teams and not that the SBC just sucks yet again.

So I guess this shows that beating bad teams is worse than losing to good teams in the RPI formula.

UTA moved up 8 spots after losing to us yesterday.

[DieHard1280]

No. FIU is having a decent season, but is not an at-large team at this time. FAU is having a poor season and is 10th in the also not strong CUSA (actually weaker than the Sun Belt). Middle Tennessee is also having a poor season. So even if FAU, FIU, and Middle are in the Sun Belt this year ... it is the same weak story.

Southern Miss is 2nd in CUSA (13-5), trailing Rice (16-5) whom is setting themselves up for a possible national seed.

Brian

With Rice's record in a weaker CUSA, how are they set up for a national seed? Harder non-conference schedule I assume?

[Dad04]

I guess I probably should not say that a win over UNO and UTA would have resulted in a current RPI ranking of #4 (instead of #14) in the country (.6036). Right on the heels of a #3 Houston team that would not be a national seed if the season ended today. Whoops, did I just say that?

Brian

[GoneGolfin]

With Rice's record in a weaker CUSA, how are they set up for a national seed? Harder non-conference schedule I assume?

Yes. I have watched Rice schedule in recent years and Wayne Graham does a good job. I heard an interview with him a couple of years ago (re: the RPI) and I came away thinking that he probably knows how to attack the RPI system (scheduling).

This season, Rice has the #10 SOS (RPI), despite playing in CUSA. This allows them to have 13 losses, yet still have a #8 RPI ranking. Next weekend, Rice travels to Southern Mississippi with 1st place in CUSA on the line.

That said, I think Rice probably falls a bit short of a national seed ... mostly due to their record against the RPI Top 25.

Brian

[CajunRed]

Scoring only 4 runs against Sunday pitching is not normally going to be enough.

[raginsaints]

Yes. I have watched Rice schedule in recent years and Wayne Graham does a good job. I heard an interview with him a couple of years ago (re: the RPI) and I came away thinking that he probably knows how to attack the RPI system (scheduling).

This season, Rice has the #10 SOS (RPI), despite playing in CUSA. This allows them to have 13 losses, yet still have a #8 RPI ranking. Next weekend, Rice travels to Southern Mississippi with 1st place in CUSA on the line.

That said, I think Rice probably falls a bit short of a national seed ... mostly due to their record against the RPI Top 25.

Brian

How much would a potential Southern Miss series victory over Rice help us?

[DieHard1280]

Scoring only 4 runs against Sunday pitching is not normally going to be enough.

No doubt. I got the impression (rightly or wrongly) that the Cajuns thought they could coast through this weekend at the plate and did just enough to win the first two games late. I never felt comfortable at any point this weekend. I didn't expect a 9th inning collapse in the bullpen but I thought they should have scored 10+ runs today.

[Bandwagon King]

So Milhorn gave up the four in the ninth? Sounds like he had a rough outing. Did he look tired? Is he the guy is the question I think Robe would be asking himself if he were thinking out loud.