La Tech and Marshall impact

[UL_Cajuns]

If the SBC conference is still the #4 conference in RPI at end of season and We win every series from here on out and win the SBC regular and conf tournament.
How can we not host?

[CajunVic]

If the SBC conference is still the #4 conference in RPI at end of season and We win every series from here on out and win the SBC regular and conf tournament.
How can we not host?

If the committee says we don’t host.

[Turbine]

If the committee says we don’t host.

Explain.

Hard for a committee to justify denying the winner of the #4 ranked conference hosting privileges.

All 16 hosts coming from 3 conferences would be seen as a sham.

[CajunVic]

Explain.

Hard for a committee to justify denying the winner of the #4 ranked conference hosting privileges.

All 16 hosts coming from 3 conferences would be seen as a sham.

Can you logically think of any other reason under those circumstances that we would not host?

[Jacob81]

East Carolina and DBU both currently would host before us and neither are in a top 5 conference.

[Turbine]

East Carolina and DBU both currently would host before us and neither are in a top 5 conference.

Good point about currently.

Going forward won't their conferences drag them down a bit?

The optimistic scenario of "still #4 conference" coupled with "We win every series" and top it off with "win the SBC regular and conf tournament" would only have Louisiana climbing.

At tall order to be sure.

[CrazyCajun]

East Carolina and DBU both currently would host before us and neither are in a top 5 conference.

We don’t need to host before them, we just need to host before 1 of the 14 others.

[Jacob81]

I agree we should host if we win the regular season and conf tourney. I’m sure our rpi would climb substantially. But if it’s not top 20 the committee won’t even sniff at us.

[CajunVic]

back to the committee

[lcitsh]

I agree we should host if we win the regular season and conf tourney. I’m sure our rpi would climb substantially. But if it’s not top 20 the committee won’t even sniff at us.

This will be the primary reason why the Cajuns will not host a regional.

There are a lot of games left to be played and any of a number of things can happen, but if all of you will look at the teams currently in the top 20 rpi, ask yourself, How many of these teams can the Cajuns realistically pass to get into the top 16? The remainder of the Cajun schedule is conducive to SOS and Adjusted RPI ranking improvement, as they have games against teams currently in Quad 1 (6), Quad 2 (6), Quad 3 (4), and Quad 4 (6). It's going to be a long climb to get to where you want them to be, but, it's baseball, stranger things have happened.