Cajuns vs UNO

[ULvictory]

Tech threw their Friday, Saturday and Sunday guy against us. I guess they felt we were a big RPI boost that they needed to win.

Tech is notorious for that kind of stuff

[Dad04]

With the way the whole importance of the RPI model has changed over the years, midweek games have also become important for that as well. Robe was mentioning recently that some teams will throw their ace on a Wednesday night just because they want a better chance at boosting up their RPI.

Yes, but that applies only to teams competing for an at large bid.

[GeauxLouisiana]

The team wants to make the conference tournament. Weekends are how that's done. Midweek games are now for getting inexperienced players up to speed. Sad but true.

Bottom 2 teams don’t make the tournament. The past 3 years, those two teams had 10 wins or less in conference. So basically just need to 1/3rd of our conference games to make the tournament. If that’s going to be a problem, then let’s play all freshman and sophomores so that we aren’t “young” again in 2020.

[CrazyCajun]

With the way the whole importance of the RPI model has changed over the years, midweek games have also become important for that as well. Robe was mentioning recently that some teams will throw their ace on a Wednesday night just because they want a better chance at boosting up their RPI.

They are no longer important for RPI when you start 6-10 and are pretty much eliminated from at large contention.

[CajunVic]

Yes, but that applies only to teams competing for an at large bid.

Cajuns are now competing for a conference tourney bid. That is a weekend only thingy.

[Dad04]

Cajuns are now competing for a conference tourney bid. That is a weekend only thingy.

That is true. Also, they are playing behind, in my opinion, the best Cajun pitcher I've seen in the last 15 years. That is something to play for and something to watch.

Yesterday I spoke at length with a former Cajun pitcher who played pro ball. He said Gunner is a big league arm, has huge makeup and should waltz through minor league baseball with ease.

[CajunRage]

That is true. They are also playing behind, in my opinion, the best Cajun pitcher I've seen in the last 15 years. Yesterday I spoke at length with a former Cajun pitcher who played pro ball. He said Gunner is a big league arm, has huge makeup and should waltz through minor league baseball with ease.

Think of the pitching we've had in the last 4 years.... depressing....

[CajunVic]

Think of the pitching we've had in the last 4 years.... depressing....

Going, Going, GONE, except for 5 to 7 innings on Friday.

[Dad04]

Think of the pitching we've had in the last 4 years.... depressing....

It was the best stretch of Cajun pitching I've seen.

[CajunNation]

When we look back on the season, this will be the day where we lost the casual fan base... absolutely unacceptable.

...before conference even started.

[TCbacker54]

Wrong. Not only does seeding matter, but it's an accomplishment they can build on. I know a segment of the dopes on this board don't understand that, but even a regular season championship can be the beginning of a long term turnaround.

Shhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiddddddddd, speaking of a turn around, how about that turn around from being the #1 team in the nation in 2014 to 5 years later sweating out whether they are qualifying for the Sunbelt tournament.

I get what you are saying though, any momentum that would even stop this downward skid, not even necessarily turn things around, would be welcomed at this point. And I get what other people were talking about too with the Robe-isms after every loss. It's frustrating to listen to those excuses and linguistic gymnastics from someone who preaches accountability so much.

Here's a Robe-ism for y'all: I guess when they built Russo they got rid of the water hose and put a concession stand stocked with Powerades where it used to be.

[CajunNation]

For the record, I haven't given up yet.

We've pulled seasons out of the crapper before.