BB G3 Final: Louisiana 14, Troy 13

[Big Buds]

Don't know how it plays but going off their website, down the lines it's 335 in left and 329 in right. Center is 390. Similar wall to Troy in right but 20 feet further back.

Sounds right. My memory has me thinking it’s a lot like Troy. Even the wall in RF.

[Turner]

The meltdowns are normal when weird things happen amongst ALL fan bases. It is one reason I rarely look at game threads. Too much emotion and not enough focus. Fortunately athletes don’t have that mindset. They try to keep competing until the final pitch.

When I first read meltdown before I read the rest of your post I thought you were talking about the players. At points this weekend it seemed like there was a meltdown on the diamond.

[CajunRage]

Coastal, Troy, Southern Miss and Louisiana... arguably the top programs in the belt. Here's how we all fared against each other:

Coastal: W 2/3 Against UL (home), Swept by Troy (home) and USM (road)
Troy: W 2/3 Against UL (home), L 2/3 to USM (road), Swept Coastal (road)
USM: W 2/3 Against Troy (home), L 2/3 to UL (road), Swept Coastal (home)
UL: W 2/3 Against USM (home), L 2/3 to Troy (road) and Coastal (road)

The only road series win was Troy going to Coastal and sweeping.

Now look at the rest of the results:

Coastal: Lost series to App and haven't swept a weekend
Troy: Lost a series to USA and only swept stAte
USM: Lost series to both GA schools and swept Marshall
UL: Dropped first game to stAte and then ran off a series win and 4 additional sweeps

We've lost 1 game to the rest of the conference while the others are losing series.

All said and done, we have a 2 game lead with 6 to play because we took care of business early. Going to Troy and to Coastal are no easy tasks. The timing of the series with us cooling off didn't help. Regardless, we didn't get swept. Look at the 4 above resumes without the emotion attached, I'll take ours over the rest.

Time to go to Statesboro and take at least two and then come home to a rowdy crowd for SouthAlSucks week and take the regular season championship.

[CajunVic]

Coastal, Troy, Southern Miss and Louisiana... arguably the top programs in the belt. Here's how we all fared against each other:

Coastal: W 2/3 Against UL (home), Swept by Troy (home) and USM (road)
Troy: W 2/3 Against UL (home), L 2/3 to USM (road), Swept Coastal (road)
USM: W 2/3 Against Troy (home), L 2/3 to UL (road), Swept Coastal (home)
UL: W 2/3 Against USM (home), L 2/3 to Troy (road) and Coastal (road)

The only road series win was Troy going to Coastal and sweeping.

Now look at the rest of the results:

Coastal: Lost series to App and haven't swept a weekend
Troy: Lost a series to USA and only swept stAte
USM: Lost series to both GA schools and swept Marshall
UL: Dropped first game to stAte and then ran off a series win and 4 additional sweeps

We've lost 1 game to the rest of the conference while the others are losing series.

All said and done, we have a 2 game lead with 6 to play because we took care of business early. Going to Troy and to Coastal are no easy tasks. The timing of the series with us cooling off didn't help. Regardless, we didn't get swept. Look at the 4 above resumes without the emotion attached, I'll take ours over the rest.

Time to go to Statesboro and take at least two and then come home to a rowdy crowd for SouthAlSucks week and take the regular season championship.

This is surely a much better analysis than being done from the results of one inning in a 50 game schedule. Commendations are in order for Rage for seeing the trees from the forest.

[CajunSID]

Coastal, Troy, Southern Miss and Louisiana... arguably the top programs in the belt. Here's how we all fared against each other:

Coastal: W 2/3 Against UL (home), Swept by Troy (home) and USM (road)
Troy: W 2/3 Against UL (home), L 2/3 to USM (road), Swept Coastal (road)
USM: W 2/3 Against Troy (home), L 2/3 to UL (road), Swept Coastal (home)
UL: W 2/3 Against USM (home), L 2/3 to Troy (road) and Coastal (road)

The only road series win was Troy going to Coastal and sweeping.

Now look at the rest of the results:

Coastal: Lost series to App and haven't swept a weekend
Troy: Lost a series to USA and only swept stAte
USM: Lost series to both GA schools and swept Marshall
UL: Dropped first game to stAte and then ran off a series win and 4 additional sweeps

We've lost 1 game to the rest of the conference while the others are losing series.

All said and done, we have a 2 game lead with 6 to play because we took care of business early. Going to Troy and to Coastal are no easy tasks. The timing of the series with us cooling off didn't help. Regardless, we didn't get swept. Look at the 4 above resumes without the emotion attached, I'll take ours over the rest.

Time to go to Statesboro and take at least two and then come home to a rowdy crowd for SouthAlSucks week and take the regular season championship.

I think Troy is currently the best team in the league. Sweeping Coastal on the road is strong no matter how Coastal is playing.

But as you said, Cajuns have handled the rest of the league better than anyone. If they take the series against Ga Southern and South Alabama, gotta think that gets the league and should get an at-large.

I don’t care what the RPI says…Cajuns are a top 40 team. Find a way to get to the postseason and roll the dice. They have their issues but it’s clear they will compete hard.

[sportsfanatic21]

All said and done, we have a 2 game lead with 6 to play because we took care of business early. Going to Troy and to Coastal are no easy tasks. The timing of the series with us cooling off didn't help. Regardless, we didn't get swept. Look at the 4 above resumes without the emotion attached, I'll take ours over the rest.

Exactly. Had the Coastal series been in week 2 or so, and the Troy series prior to S. Miss, it would be sunshine and rainbows around here

Also, to your point about not being swept, one of this weekends whiners mentioned our coach’s mentality of “don’t get swept on the road” as a loser’s mentality. Obviously that person feels every college baseball coach…ever…is a loser. That’s how you win conference titles, and EVERY college baseball coach says it, take care of your business at home (win series), don’t get swept on the road, and have a couple of good weekends where you sweep a couple teams. It’s tried and true.

And it’s EXACTLY what this Cajuns team has done so far.

[CajunVic]

I think Troy is currently the best team in the league. Sweeping Coastal on the road is strong no matter how Coastal is playing.

So sweeping the no. 8 ranked team in the league who is currently on an 8 game losing streak is how you determine the best team in the league?

I prefer Rages more detailed and refined analysis.

[CrazyCajun]

Exactly. Had the Coastal series been in week 2 or so, and the Troy series prior to S. Miss, it would be sunshine and rainbows around here

Also, to your point about not being swept, one of this weekends whiners mentioned our coach’s mentality of “don’t get swept on the road” as a loser’s mentality. Obviously that person feels every college baseball coach…ever…is a loser. That’s how you win conference titles, and EVERY college baseball coach says it, take care of your business at home (win series), don’t get swept on the road, and have a couple of good weekends where you sweep a couple teams. It’s tried and true.

And it’s EXACTLY what this Cajuns team has done so far.

Not a whiner, you can feel a way and not say it. You think a coach should always tell his team what he is thinking? Obviously after you drop 2 you try not to get swept but thats not a season long goal. It souldn't be a spoken mindset. You can disagree or just whine about it I guess. It's about timing, troy and us are almost idnetical in metrics but tehy are timing it right and we arent, sorry if the frutration of that bothers you. They struggled to pitch early and are figuring it out at teh right time, we are having struggles at the wrong time. Its also frustrating that it seems we are struggling to pitch and hit at athe same time at the end of the year. Deggs hasnt been vocal about not getting swept on the road until this year, he has always been a "we gonna win every game we play" guy.

[sportsfanatic21]

Not a whiner, you can feel a way and not say it. You think a coach should always tell his team what he is thinking? Obviously after you drop 2 you try not to get swept but thats not a season long goal. It souldn't be a spoken mindset. You can disagree or just whine about it I guess. It's about timing, troy and us are almost idnetical in metrics but tehy are timing it right and we arent, sorry if the frutration of that bothers you. They struggled to pitch early and are figuring it out at teh right time, we are having struggles at the wrong time. Its also frustrating that it seems we are struggling to pitch and hit at athe same time at the end of the year. Deggs hasnt been vocal about not getting swept on the road until this year, he has always been a "we gonna win every game we play" guy.

Sorry man, but that’s just not accurate. Every college baseball coach in the country says what the formula is. And they all state it publicly. And have forever

Of course they are trying to win every game and every series, but that’s not realistic in baseball. The goal is always to win more than 2/3 of your conference games. Doing so will have you in the mix for a title. And the way to do that is to win series at home, sweep a couple times, and….dont get swept on the road.

It’s hard to win against the better teams (obviously) and even more difficult on the road. The Cajuns just have happened to play 2 of their 3 toughest opponents on the road. And they avoided getting swept. And beat the one they played at home. And they’ve swept a few teams. And guess what…it all adds up to them being in position to win the conference title.

[sportsfanatic21]

Strange RPI situation:

Team A
27-20 overall
11-13 in the SBC
2-9 vs Q1 teams
RPI 32

Team B
27-20 overall
11-13 in the SBC
5-3 vs Q1 teams
RPI 65

A is Coastal
B is S. Alabama

Sure seems like losing to more good teams is better than winning against a couple fewer, which is obviously an absurd system.