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Post by Henry Skrimshander on May 25, 2023 6:29:08 GMT -8
Every round, including Super Regionals and CWS.... The LSU cite says that the change only applies to Regionals and Super Regionals. The rule change only applies to tournaments overseen by the NCAA. The conferences oversee their own tournaments and can make their own rules. That said, the higher seed should always have the choice of batting first or last. It earned it. |
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Post by tamatrix on May 25, 2023 8:24:32 GMT -8
The LSU cite says that the change only applies to Regionals and Super Regionals. The rule change only applies to tournaments overseen by the NCAA. The conferences oversee their own tournaments and can make their own rules. That said, the higher seed should always have the choice of batting first or last. It earned it. Exactly my point....Pac-12 needs to remove it's head from it's ass and stop participation trophy culture and let the higher seeds decide, just like the NCAA did |
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Post by messi on May 25, 2023 17:33:00 GMT -8
So the Huskies win to take the third spot and await their opponent. Stanford wins, its USC. Stanford loses, its o.
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Post by messi on May 25, 2023 17:36:20 GMT -8
Stanford calling for an Uber, a midweek guy by the looks of it. Damn it Stanford, I wanted o to lose.
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Post by badwack on May 25, 2023 18:26:23 GMT -8
Furd is just hammering this Duck kid. 4 Zip Btm 1st.
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Post by messi on May 25, 2023 21:14:06 GMT -8
It amazes me how so many teams f%#* everything up and play sloppy when up against o.
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Post by messi on May 25, 2023 21:43:19 GMT -8
Go Dawgs. FTd.
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Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 25, 2023 22:13:30 GMT -8
The Pac-12 needs to flex the West Coast Conference out of Las Vegas and take over that Ballpark. 13 degrees cooler there than Scottsdale tomorrow and Friday. And more shade than Scottsdale Stadium! Scottsdale was always a stupid place to play the Tournament. Everyone keeps harping on the Tournament. The Tournament isn't the issue. The location is. It's actually both. The location is utter stupidity. The way each year was set up even worse. If a team can lose on purpose to still reach a semi final you don't have a real tournament. First, if you're going to have a postseason tourney there are multiple quality MILB fields that could be scheduled/contracted with to vary the locations. Second quit over thinking the set up. There are lots of possibilities, but it's post season they've played 30 league games. Everyone has played each team 3 times (except in rare weather instances). Each team doesn't need or deserve 2+ games in the tourney. Be creative... >8 top teams, single elim first game. Dbl elim for final 4; >all 11 teams, 3 pigtail games 6 vs 11, 7 vs 10, 8 vs 9, winners advance to fill 8 team bracket. Top seed vs lowest seeded team advancing, etc. See above for 8 team field; But, this isn't about RPI for the Pac12. No one's RPI is changing dramatically due to this tourney. If you have to play the RPI game schedule better NC road or neutral site opponents. It's about $$ and even then it doesn't make each of the 11 teams enough to get them in the black. I'll respond to these in reverse order, because you make more sense elsewhere and because my response will devolve as it continues. The Championship Games pays for the rest of the Tournament and gate, concessions, merchandise, and the Pac-12 Network advertising makes up the rest. Official attendance at the 2022 Pac-12 Tournament was 19,363. They don't do it for no good reason and the good reason is money. Oregon hilariously fell nine spots. UCLA's RPI went up but they stayed pat in RPI. But that is very misleading, because they would have fallen four spots in RPI had they not played in the Pac-12 Tournament. UCLA stood a strong chance of missing the Tournament altogether, if not for their 3-2 run in the Pac-12 Tournament. Stanford's RPI jumped more than twice as much as UCLA. However, that only equated to four spots in RPI, because RPI tends to get less bunched on the ends. Arizona jumped two spots. If Oregon State had gone 4-0 in the 2023 Tournament, you would be looking at about a nine spot jump in RPI, from 30 to about 21. Playing the Arizona schools is a bad draw. They went 2-0 against Oregon last year. They went 2-0 against Oregon State this year. The solution to worrying about teams losing their way through to the next round is to beat the eighth-best team in the Pac-12. It sucks that Scottsdale is much closer to Tucson than it is to Corvallis, but the Tournament is always going to be closer to one team's home than another team's home. Is it fair that Nebraska basically plays each game of the Big Ten Tournament at home? Is it fair that TCU basically gets to play each game of the Big 12 Tournament at home? Is it fair that the Alabamas play the SEC Tournament at home? Is it fair the the North Carolinas play the ACC Tournament at home? But Florida and Vandy both turned the trick and each beat an Alabama team. (The other seven "home" teams are undefeated last time that I checked, so everyone has the same gripe.) But we're Oregon State. We are like the Addams Family:  No excuses. Throw the Beavers to the opposite side of the country into the backwoods of Virginia in the middle of a Tropical Storm, Beavers come out Champions. Stick the defending National Co-Champion and SEC Tournament Co-Champion in the Corvallis Regional, Beavers come out Champions. So, f#*k it. Let's see what lions we get thrown to this year. Who we are going to have to bump off to see another dogpile? It doesn't really matter, because:    Go Beavs! |
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