Great Dixie Disaster Of 2016
By Mark Etheridge -
Jun 15, 2016
What the heck happened last weekend?
Only three of the eight national seeds are still alive. Out of 17 postseason teams from the two conferences that dominated the polls and ratings metrics all season, the SEC and ACC have just two members remaining in the elite eight. Many of the teams that ruled the draft last week, those talented clubs struggled over the weekend.
SEC champion Mississippi State — swept at home by Arizona.
SEC Tournament champion and offensive juggernaut Texas A&M — two-hit by TCU in a winner-take-all finale Sunday evening.
Uber-talented ACC member Louisville — the team with the 36-1 home record entering the weekend — walked off by a grand slam and swept on its own turf.
Surging SEC power LSU — one of the hottest teams in the sport — strands more men than a Southern snowstorm and gets swept at home by Coastal Carolina.
SEC power South Carolina came in hitting the ball all over the yard to win a regional from the losers bracket — and managed two total runs in a pair of losses to Oklahoma State.
And that doesn’t even account for teams like Clemson, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, Virginia and NC State that hosted regionals they didn’t make it out of...
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I post this in response to the denial I see in many of our baseball fans about the wind-down of the ACC and SEC baseball seasons. We actually have fans willing to debate that these two conferences had disappointing finishes, in large part because it waters down the disappointment they have about the home team. And of course, some wanna point fingers.
For damn sure, "disaster" isn't an ambiguous word. I'm not researching it, but keep in mind that D1Baseball was probably eulogizing these two conferences the week before. Which doesn't exactly make them objective in their assessment today. Credit to them--and just a handful here--if you/they can say they overrated these teams before the tourney...
By Mark Etheridge -
Jun 15, 2016
What the heck happened last weekend?
Only three of the eight national seeds are still alive. Out of 17 postseason teams from the two conferences that dominated the polls and ratings metrics all season, the SEC and ACC have just two members remaining in the elite eight. Many of the teams that ruled the draft last week, those talented clubs struggled over the weekend.
SEC champion Mississippi State — swept at home by Arizona.
SEC Tournament champion and offensive juggernaut Texas A&M — two-hit by TCU in a winner-take-all finale Sunday evening.
Uber-talented ACC member Louisville — the team with the 36-1 home record entering the weekend — walked off by a grand slam and swept on its own turf.
Surging SEC power LSU — one of the hottest teams in the sport — strands more men than a Southern snowstorm and gets swept at home by Coastal Carolina.
SEC power South Carolina came in hitting the ball all over the yard to win a regional from the losers bracket — and managed two total runs in a pair of losses to Oklahoma State.
And that doesn’t even account for teams like Clemson, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, Virginia and NC State that hosted regionals they didn’t make it out of...
LINK
This is subscription content. And if anyone is a subscriber and wants to paraphrase or quote the author in the remainder of the story, be my guest. You can probably gauge his opinion by the part that's posted for free.
I post this in response to the denial I see in many of our baseball fans about the wind-down of the ACC and SEC baseball seasons. We actually have fans willing to debate that these two conferences had disappointing finishes, in large part because it waters down the disappointment they have about the home team. And of course, some wanna point fingers.
For damn sure, "disaster" isn't an ambiguous word. I'm not researching it, but keep in mind that D1Baseball was probably eulogizing these two conferences the week before. Which doesn't exactly make them objective in their assessment today. Credit to them--and just a handful here--if you/they can say they overrated these teams before the tourney...