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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Sept 29, 2024 12:07:03 GMT -8
The 2024 schedule, only 20 homes games. Goss is gonna be a lonely place in April and May. The consequences for remaining independent and not having conference home series. Season ticket of $500 = $25 per game, pretty darn steep for college baseball.  |
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Post by rgeorge on Sept 29, 2024 12:24:55 GMT -8
The 2024 schedule, only 20 homes games. Goss is gonna be a lonely place in April and May. The consequences for remaining independent and not having conference home series. Season ticket of $500 = $25 per game, pretty darn steep for college baseball. View AttachmentAnd, as stated by multiple folks... look at the 20 home opponents! Look at the 56!? People who thought you can build a high level 56 game schedule as an indy were in fantasy land. |
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Post by zeroposter on Sept 29, 2024 12:28:56 GMT -8
Decent schedule. I think we all knew long ago that there wouldn’t be as many home games this season, but there are some interesting series. We will be putting some miles on our vehicles this season, but I like to visit other parks anyway.
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Post by zeroposter on Sept 29, 2024 12:29:37 GMT -8
The 2024 schedule, only 20 homes games. Goss is gonna be a lonely place in April and May. The consequences for remaining independent and not having conference home series. Season ticket of $500 = $25 per game, pretty darn steep for college baseball. View AttachmentAnd, as stated by multiple folks... look at the 20 home opponents! Look at the 56!? People who thought you can build a high level 56 game schedule as an indy were in fantasy land. I was typing as you posted. Slow typer here. Agree with your premise though some of the scheduled teams can be very good, but if the opponent is on the rebuild, the RPI could be dismal. |
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Post by Henry Skrimshander on Sept 29, 2024 12:46:39 GMT -8
The 2024 schedule, only 20 homes games. Goss is gonna be a lonely place in April and May. The consequences for remaining independent and not having conference home series. Season ticket of $500 = $25 per game, pretty darn steep for college baseball. View Attachment2025 schedule. Duh. Got back in too late to edit the story and the headline. |
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Post by beavaristotle on Sept 29, 2024 13:23:51 GMT -8
The 2024 schedule, only 20 homes games. Goss is gonna be a lonely place in April and May. The consequences for remaining independent and not having conference home series. Season ticket of $500 = $25 per game, pretty darn steep for college baseball. View AttachmentAnd, as stated by multiple folks... look at the 20 home opponents! Look at the 56!? People who thought you can build a high level 56 game schedule as an indy were in fantasy land. not surprising at all but still feels like a kick in the teeth. Even the road schedule isn’t great. No fault of Mitch or the program but the sustained excellence will be nearly impossible to maintain if this is our schedule year in and year out |
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Post by richard44 on Sept 29, 2024 13:51:18 GMT -8
Only 20 home games is a bummer, but everyone knew that was a reality while independent. With that being said, I like a lot of our opponents. We play a lot of good teams, and a lot of big brands. Even our “lower level” opponents are perennially solid baseball programs like Gonzaga, UC Irvine, GCU, Long Beach, and Cal State Fullerton.
Overall, the schedule is actually pretty dang solid from beginning to end. Gonna be competitive for sure.
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Post by cake on Sept 29, 2024 14:20:34 GMT -8
Going by average RPI of opponents at the end of last season. Here's the RPI average:
2024 schedule: 118.3
2025 schedule: 95.6
Last year's schedule, 9 opponents finished with a top 50 RPI. 30 in the top 100.
Next year, 17 schools finished with a top 50 RPI and 34 in the top 100.
Considering how many road games we'll be playing, this could be a really, really tough schedule. Hopefully teams like Long Beach State, CS Fullerton, Cal Poly and Gonzaga bounce back a bit.
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Post by rgeorge on Sept 29, 2024 14:52:56 GMT -8
Going by average RPI of opponents at the end of last season. Here's the RPI average: 2024 schedule: 118.3 2025 schedule: 95.6 Last year's schedule, 9 opponents finished with a top 50 RPI. 30 in the top 100. Next year, 17 schools finished with a top 50 RPI and 34 in the top 100. Considering how many road games we'll be playing, this could be a really, really tough schedule. Hopefully teams like Long Beach State, CS Fullerton, Cal Poly and Gonzaga bounce back a bit. How teams finished last year's schedule doesn't make this a good schedule. Apples to apples would take into account the 2025 final RPI. This is an average schedule at best. A terrible home schedule. And, a complete blowing smoke up fans' arses when you look at the MC's and AD's comments on the schedule. 64 teams in the post season. The best of this group are 3/4 seeds in 2025. There isn't many (OkSt?) what I'd call an "OSU level" opponent in the 56. Unless several teams really excel the SOS will be miserable as OSU doesn't have a conference SOS to bolster its schedule. Not only will some opponents need to excel, OSU must win those series and the key singles. |
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Post by nuclearbeaver on Sept 29, 2024 15:07:11 GMT -8
Don't really see what the big deal is. Our schedule was completely reliant on the P12 not s%#tting the bed in the past in terms of RPI. This schedule doesn't look all that much different to me as a down year for the P12.
10 Neutral Site
20 Home
26 Away
The Iowa series is interesting but I don't really see it as helping RPI much minus being on the road. GCU, San Diego, LBSU, UC Irvine are all solid series most years. CSUN, CSF and Cal Poly could all be good but who knows.
Virginia, Okay State, Auburn are all really nice RPI opportunities.
Still have a game with UCLA, Ducks and Huskies who all have potential to be decent in RPI as the BIG 10 was seriously upgraded for baseball with the 4 additions.
Don't really see it as much different myself minus we now have 3 tournaments instead of 2 which is an upgrade over playing an RPI anchor at home in the sleet. It wasn't like we were going to get a bunch of ACC and SEC series which is no different than any other year.
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Post by nuclearbeaver on Sept 29, 2024 15:09:18 GMT -8
Going by average RPI of opponents at the end of last season. Here's the RPI average: 2024 schedule: 118.3 2025 schedule: 95.6 Last year's schedule, 9 opponents finished with a top 50 RPI. 30 in the top 100. Next year, 17 schools finished with a top 50 RPI and 34 in the top 100. Considering how many road games we'll be playing, this could be a really, really tough schedule. Hopefully teams like Long Beach State, CS Fullerton, Cal Poly and Gonzaga bounce back a bit. How teams finished last year's schedule doesn't make this a good schedule. Apples to apples would take into account the 2025 final RPI. This is an average schedule at best. A terrible home schedule. And, a complete blowing smoke up fans' arses when you look at the MC's and AD's comments on the schedule. 64 teams in the post season. The best of this group are 3/4 seeds in 2025. There isn't many (OkSt?) what I'd call an "OSU level" opponent in the 56. Unless several teams really excel the SOS will be miserable as OSU doesn't have a conference SOS to bolster its schedule. Not only will some opponents need to excel, OSU must win those series and the key singles. How is Virginia not an OSU level opponent? Champions in 2015, runner up in 2014, CWS 09, 11, 14, 15, 21, 23, 24 and in the post season 18 times since 2000? |
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Post by rgeorge on Sept 29, 2024 15:42:18 GMT -8
How teams finished last year's schedule doesn't make this a good schedule. Apples to apples would take into account the 2025 final RPI. This is an average schedule at best. A terrible home schedule. And, a complete blowing smoke up fans' arses when you look at the MC's and AD's comments on the schedule. 64 teams in the post season. The best of this group are 3/4 seeds in 2025. There isn't many (OkSt?) what I'd call an "OSU level" opponent in the 56. Unless several teams really excel the SOS will be miserable as OSU doesn't have a conference SOS to bolster its schedule. Not only will some opponents need to excel, OSU must win those series and the key singles. How is Virginia not an OSU level opponent? Champions in 2015, runner up in 2014, CWS 09, 11, 14, 15, 21, 23, 24 and in the post season 18 times since 2000? So, you're saying two teams, two total games?🤔 But, OkSt mentioned preceded by "not many"... NOT the only🤣 |
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Post by joecool on Sept 29, 2024 15:44:50 GMT -8
Going by average RPI of opponents at the end of last season. Here's the RPI average: 2024 schedule: 118.3 2025 schedule: 95.6 Last year's schedule, 9 opponents finished with a top 50 RPI. 30 in the top 100. Next year, 17 schools finished with a top 50 RPI and 34 in the top 100. Considering how many road games we'll be playing, this could be a really, really tough schedule. Hopefully teams like Long Beach State, CS Fullerton, Cal Poly and Gonzaga bounce back a bit. Thank you for the analysis and numbers. So much better than the speculation and negativity. |
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Post by rgeorge on Sept 29, 2024 15:46:36 GMT -8
Going by average RPI of opponents at the end of last season. Here's the RPI average: 2024 schedule: 118.3 2025 schedule: 95.6 Last year's schedule, 9 opponents finished with a top 50 RPI. 30 in the top 100. Next year, 17 schools finished with a top 50 RPI and 34 in the top 100. Considering how many road games we'll be playing, this could be a really, really tough schedule. Hopefully teams like Long Beach State, CS Fullerton, Cal Poly and Gonzaga bounce back a bit. Thank you for the analysis and numbers. So much better than the speculation and negativity. FWIW... it is speculation. Last year's teams and finishes aren't this seasons. |
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Post by Bodhisattva on Sept 29, 2024 15:50:04 GMT -8
Bottom line is this is a better schedule than we would have got in WCC. Maybe less home games but our RPI should be much better.
Really thought we would get more former pac12 teams trying to boost their rpi
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