Power surge continues

[lcitsh]

Is those vaunted sec era's compiled against subpar competition? The sec only has played one third of its games in conference. The rest are out of conference. If they are shutting out inferior competition during two thirds of the schedule wouldn't that also skew their statistics?

Yes, several of Florida's non-conference opponents would be called "less than stellar," but Michigan (8-0), Washington (3-1), UCLA (2-1), Utah (1-0) and Nebraska (8-0), would not be included in that list. Florida has played 26 non-conference games thus far, 8 of them against teams ranked 62-98 in the rpi and 9 in the 100+ rankings. While I don't know what those team's records are, it's safe to say that Florida's pitching would be too much for them to handle.

[lcitsh]

---Haven't followed it closely---but how is her sub doing at the plate and behind the plate???

It's apparent that Mike felt it was important to have a strong defensive catcher to replace Lexie, otherwise he could have put Allie Medlin or Miranda Grotenhuis in as catcher, since both of them have played this season. Brittany is obviously the best of those three defensively, otherwise Mike would not have taken the redshirt off of her this late in the season. Brittany has done fine with the mitt but has work to do with the bat.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Really. So glad we've got you to splain things Lucy.

[lcitsh]

I am just trying to compare apples to apples. Florida's pitching staff has won games (in some instances multiple games) against 7 teams that are rated in the top 20 in the latest NCAA RPI rankings. They are currently the best staff in softball. No disputing that.

My prior post was in support of a post made by SportyCajun who was basically telling another poster to tone down the chest thumping about UL having more homeruns than LSU and Florida combined. UL is an awesome power hitting team. But I do feel that when one is touting their team homrerun totals, you need to take into account the quality of the pitching staffs that some of those homeruns were hit off of. I am not taking anything away from UL, I am just trying to put some perspective on things.

Let me ask you this. I don't know offhand how many homeruns UL has hit in conference play to date. But do you think that they would have the same number of homeruns if they played in the SEC conference? I am strictly talking conference homerun totals if they played in the SEC.

The Cajuns have a total of 77 home runs in the 35 games they have played thus far. They have hit 36 in the 14 conference games they have played, leaving 41 in the 21 non-conference games. Would they have as many in the SEC? It depends on who those 5 series were against. If they were against Florida, Alabama, Kentucky, LSU and Missouri, probably not. If was against Auburn, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Georgia and Arkansas, it would be close.

[31Ragin97]

Good deal. For anyone else wondering, UF's Softball ticket policy
http://floridagators.com/sports/2016....aspx?id=13742

Does this ticket policy suggest money is not important to build a number one program?

[lcitsh]

Really. So glad we've got you to splain things Lucy.

Strange. I didn't see anyone named Lucy saying anything to you.

[MelRock]

Florida will start charging for tickets in the next year or two. They will be doing a renovation of the stadium as well. There was talk of starting to charge for tickets but there was little backlash from some of the fans, they thought they were charging because the team was now winning. I think they will 50% of their fan base once they start charging. To me more than 50% of the crowd was senior citizens and probably did not attend UF. If those senior citizens have a fixed income, I doubt that they buy tickets. Just my thoughts, no real proof.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Strange. I didn't see anyone named Lucy saying anything to you.

strange, that you should care.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Does this ticket policy suggest money is not important to build a number one program?

So the fact that Florida athletics is so rich it does not need to charge for softball mean to you the softball program is underfunded somehow?