BB Final: Louisiana 2, SLU 0

[RAGINCAJUN11]

I know what Max is capable of, but man how long will we ride a .164 and 25 strike out guy? Let someone else sniff the field.

[Swamp]

That is a great picture on how to square up on a baseball.

Yes sir. Paused the High Point vid from CajunsBSB @.

Great mktg coming from the Cajuns staff.

[babysitter]

We are 5-0 since MS State outscoring teams 45-11. Our RPI keeps slipping though. All we can do is keep winning and hopefully RPI gets better.

Gotta keep winning for sure because the RPI won't get any better playing the likes of Southeastern [above 100], S. Alabama [above 200], Tulane [above 150] ULM [above 150] and a host of others above 75 currently. In the end, the SOS will be the killer. Just don't want to go in the conference tournament having to win it like last year.

[wcd35]

RPI will be fine if we keep winning. Need teams like BYU to get back to a winning record. Other big thing is so much of the schedule so far is at home so we've got discounted wins. If we do well on the road, it'll climb. Not to mention the conference as a whole did very well OOC, with almost all having winning records upon entering SBC play. I'm not worried about RPI if we keep doing what we do

[wcd35]

Also, looking at opponent RPI ranking is still not as critical their record. Their ranking only matters for your quadrant records. A team like Jackson State may be 200+ but they have an 11-5 record, though you have to take a few non-D1s out. Not quite the poison pill you may expect. Also want to root for SBC West teams when they go h2h with the East teams we don't get to play, since not everyone plays each other any more.

It could be worse. You could be Tx State and have a nearly identical record as us but almost twice as bad RPI ranking bc they played 3x vs 1-14 Northwestern and 3x vs 3-17 NDSU. They'll have some hurdles to overcome that, but they're probably good enough to make up for it.

[MWolf]

Also, looking at opponent RPI ranking is still not as critical their record. Their ranking only matters for your quadrant records. A team like Jackson State may be 200+ but they have an 11-5 record, though you have to take a few non-D1s out. Not quite the poison pill you may expect. Also want to root for SBC West teams when they go h2h with the East teams we don't get to play, since not everyone plays each other any more.

It could be worse. You could be Tx State and have a nearly identical record as us but almost twice as bad RPI ranking bc they played 3x vs 1-14 Northwestern and 3x vs 3-17 NDSU. They'll have some hurdles to overcome that, but they're probably good enough to make up for it.

Like you said at first: just keep winning. Winning cures all. I'll worry about RPI in May.

[ManAboutTown]

Also, looking at opponent RPI ranking is still not as critical their record. Their ranking only matters for your quadrant records. A team like Jackson State may be 200+ but they have an 11-5 record, though you have to take a few non-D1s out. Not quite the poison pill you may expect. Also want to root for SBC West teams when they go h2h with the East teams we don't get to play, since not everyone plays each other any more.

It could be worse. You could be Tx State and have a nearly identical record as us but almost twice as bad RPI ranking bc they played 3x vs 1-14 Northwestern and 3x vs 3-17 NDSU. They'll have some hurdles to overcome that, but they're probably good enough to make up for it.

SBC West got baptized this past weekend...

[CajunRage]

Take RPI with a grain of salt until GoneGolfin starts posting about it. Southeastern jumped 18 spots (into the top 100) after losing to us. Still too early to tell on any of this. Just win.

[JMV JustMyView]

Take RPI with a grain of salt until GoneGolfin starts posting about it. Southeastern jumped 18 spots (into the top 100) after losing to us. Still too early to tell on any of this. Just win.

What Rage said. It is still early.

[wcd35]

Yeah, I rarely pay attention to it (ranking-wise) until after halfway. Only thing I pay attention to before is how our conference mates do OOC and what teams we played are generally doing.

[CajunRage]

I'd venture to guess Southeastern will be a very good RPI game come the end of the season. They will likely compete for a southland regular season title (wins) and 7 of the 9 southland teams are .500 or better going into conference.

[Turbine]

Take RPI with a grain of salt until GoneGolfin starts posting about it. Southeastern jumped 18 spots (into the top 100) after losing to us. Still too early to tell on any of this. Just win.

This ^

[MelRock]

Right now, six Sun Belt Conference teams are in the top 75 of the RPI. But yes, in my opinion, it is way too early to be looking at RPI. Just win!

[Turbine]

Right now, six Sun Belt Conference teams are in the top 75 of the RPI. But yes, in my opinion, it is way too early to be looking at RPI. Just win!

The more you can have "up there" when conference play starts the more of a "lock-in" you have.

Now that the conference as grown, 6 is probably not as good as it needs to be but still better than in the past.

[Big Poppa]

I know what Max is capable of, but man how long will we ride a .164 and 25 strike out guy? Let someone else sniff the field.

We did see a kid that was in the battle for third at first last night go 2 for 4 with a walk. On base 3 of 4. Put him on 3rd and Zambo back at first?