NCAA Baseball Tournament

[GeauxCajuns]

3 seeds went 8 and 8 on day 1

[Cajun90]

Thanks, have we ever had a baseball scholarship thread? It has been alluded to in some other threads, maybe we could work on this as a summer project after the season....specifically the use of alleged academic scholarships by the big boys to avert the ncaa limit.... I read that David price famously had an academic scholarship, but he said in an interview he only had a 2.6 GPA???

It isn't the big boys. Any state, such as Louisiana, that has a program similar to TOP's can pretty easily end up with a number of student athletes on academic scholarship. This can be very important in sports that don't have enough scholarships to go around. Baseball is a good example in that they only have 11.7 scholarships per NCAA rule.

p.s. - Not everything is a conspiracy against us.

[Frenchie35]

How does lswho always manage to manipulate the schedule. I thought ncaa is supposed to control the regional, nearly every host plays in game two, but they were in game 1? Do they flip coins or something?

lswho has been manipulating the ncaa for may years now. They call the shots in refinery town....
The state legislators call an emergency secession Thursday night to discuss the issues......

[DocCajun]

lswho has been manipulating the ncaa for may years now. They call the shots in refinery town....
The state legislators call an emergency secession Thursday night to discuss the issues......

I think the host gets the choice for the first day and while a lot of schools may choose game 2 to get fans there, LSU probably doesn't have that issue. So if they are playing within the rules and think it gives them an advantage with more rest (assuming they win g1), I have no problem with it.

[jllanclos]

I think the host gets the choice for the first day and while a lot of schools may choose game 2 to get fans there, LSU probably doesn't have that issue. So if they are playing within the rules and think it gives them an advantage with more rest (assuming they win g1), I have no problem with it.

It's smart to give yourself every chance. Those dudes played past midnight last night while LSU chilled. Almost no one does this and I don't know why.

Why does host choose last game of SBC tourney? That thing almost always ends after midnight, and loser plays at 12:30. Dumb imo

[31Ragin97]

It isn't the big boys. Any state, such as Louisiana, that has a program similar to TOP's can pretty easily end up with a number of student athletes on academic scholarship. This can be very important in sports that don't have enough scholarships to go around. Baseball is a good example in that they only have 11.7 scholarships per NCAA rule.

p.s. - Not everything is a conspiracy against us.

Well I did some research....even if the ncaa allows only six hours during season as long as you reach 24 for year, tops doesn't afford that luxury....so question asked again, now how are they doing it? Especially Mr.foster?

[31Ragin97]

Plus David price went to vandy, so like Tulane that means no tops like program, and it was a "real" academic scholarship?

[31Ragin97]

The host earned the opportunity to decide when they play on day 1. After that the tournry is set in stone.

Still doesn't seem set in stone..... Winner bracket team being visitor in game six makes sense, as cajuns are now, but it isn't the case in all regionals

[GoneGolfin]

Still doesn't seem set in stone..... Winner bracket team being visitor in game six makes sense, as cajuns are now, but it isn't the case in all regionals

It has nothing to do with the Game #. It is about how many times each team has been the home team. If that is tied, how many times each team has been the visiting team. There are further tiebreakers … culminating with the coin toss being the final tiebreaker.

For Game 6 … both UL and Rice have been the home team once. Since Rice has been the visiting team twice and UL once, Rice is the home team for Game 6.

If there is a Game 7, UL would be the home team.

Brian

[Cajun90]

Still doesn't seem set in stone..... Winner bracket team being visitor in game six makes sense, as cajuns are now, but it isn't the case in all regionals

From the rulebook....

Determination of Home Team For first-round games during championship competition, the highest-seeded team shall be designated as the home team. In subsequent games, the home team shall be determined according to a formula applied by the games committee. In determining which of two teams in any game will be the home team, the games committee or the NCAA game representative shall designate the home team using the following guidelines: 1. The institution that has been the home team the fewer number of times in that particular tournament. 2. If the two teams are equal in this respect but unequal in the number of times they were the visitor, then the team that has been the visitor more often will be designated the home team. 3. If the two teams are equal in the number of times that they have been home and visitor, the games committee or the NCAA game representative shall observe the following procedures in the order stated: a. If the two teams have met previously in that particular tournament, the visitor in the previous game shall be the home team in the game in question; b. The team that was visitor in its preceding game shall be the home team, unless both teams were visitors in their preceding games; or c. If the above procedures do not resolve the matter, the home team shall be determined by coin flip. The higher seeded team can determine whether they will call the coin toss, or defer the call to their opponent.

[31Ragin97]

Thanks! Is this an ncaa manual or the baseball rulebook, same that umps would use?

[jllanclos]

So Super Regional game 3 is always a coin flip, right?

LSU home game 1
Louisiana home game 2
coin flip game 3

[31Ragin97]

I'd bet money that it isnt

[GoneGolfin]

So Super Regional game 3 is always a coin flip, right?

LSU home game 1
Louisiana home game 2
coin flip game 3

Yes. The coin flip takes place before the first game.

Brian

[GoneGolfin]

I'd bet money that it isnt

I will take that bet.

Brian