SBC Baseball

[Cajun90]

What I still can't believe is the prediction that ULM and Marshall combined will go 0 and 60 in Conference play.

To me, that's impossible.

Who made that prediction? That is insane. Many years ago I did a statistical analysis of NCAA Div I baseball game winning percentages because of something that was said on this board. Bottom line was that if you won 80% of your games you were one of the best teams in the country. LSU lost 17 games last year. No one in the country did better than Wake Forest last year and they lost 12 games.

It is hard to win them all and it's also hard to lose them all......

[sportsfanatic21]

What I still can't believe is the prediction that ULM and Marshall combined will go 0 and 60 in Conference play.

To me, that's impossible.

That “prediction” was based solely on “predicted wins”. Didn’t take reality into anything. Basically that both would be the predicted losing team in each of their single game matchups against conference foes.

And since they don’t play each other….that was the result.

If you look at that site during the season, they have a “predicted record” tab. And it basically is just a win for whichever team has the highest current ranking on their site.

[RaisingCajun08]

This team is starting to remind me of the 2021 team. Pitching was excellent, but they struggled to put together any offensive consistency. Got off to a slow start (9-8) and then started to figure things out a little bit.

They may have been able to pitch their way into a regional but weather forced the SBC tourney into single elimination, which made their pitching depth (and strength) meaningless.

I would have liked this post better if you would have said the 2013 team. I'm okay with "waiting this one out" (with 40+ wins) to have another 2014 season.

[Swamp]

Looking at some, not all, of the schedules, we've had a pretty tough one in comparison. South Al has not played anyone.
Southern Miss has had a decent series with Indiana State (regional hosts last year) and Missouri State (historically strong program that has only played the Sun Belt so far this year in weekend series.)
I've watched Coastal a good bit. Nice schedule. Some good wins.
App has played the regular East Coast teams that don't move the needle.
stAte has a win over Ole Miss and a 1 over Missouri State, although they lost the series. Lindenwood and Omaha are the other weekend series.

Didn't go down that much further. I know ODU and Georgia Southern have some ranked wins. Texas State had themselves a weekend in Houston.

Give it a few weeks and things will start to even out when we start to beat up on each other.

SW Missori State program? If so, I definitely know who you're referring to. They made a major run I remember.

Kind of like Millsaps, you hear about 'em a lot but can't remember where.

[Kid Rock]

What I have seen so far is the lack of timely hitting. I think that will come. I also think once we get pitching and hitting to click at the same time we could be dangerous!

[cajun4life]

What I have seen so far is the lack of timely hitting. I think that will come. I also think once we get pitching and hitting to click at the same time we could be dangerous!

If we start hitting as a team and limit errors, we can run off 10-15 straight wins.

[MountainDew]

What I have seen so far is the lack of timely hitting. I think that will come. I also think once we get pitching and hitting to click at the same time we could be dangerous!

I think it is more than just timely hitting right now. It seems like a lot of our guys are just unprepared and clueless at the plate. Swinging at pitches way out of the zone, some of which actually hit the batter. Taking a called strike 3 on a breaking ball that really missed no part of the plate to end the game with the tying runner on base. It seems our hitters get fooled at the plate both by fastballs and off-speed pitches. The approach just isn't there right now.