Here's hoping for the Gators. In many ways this has been a disappointing season for us. If memory serves me correctly we opened the season as #1. Not a failure but not as successful as us Gators hoped. Here's hoping we do well in the post season.
For Bill..from The Athletic. Gainesville Regional 1. Florida 2. Miami 3. South Alabama 4. South Florida Florida began the 2021 season as the consensus No. 1 team in the nation but showed some troubling signs — most notably on the mound — in a season-opening series loss to Miami in which the Gators allowed a total of 23 runs. This team has a ton of talent but hasn’t pitched well enough against quality competition to live up to the preseason hype. Miami hasn’t gotten great production from its starting pitching, but the Canes still managed to finish fourth in the ACC in ERA (4.33) and fifth in opponents’ batting average (.246). South Alabama played its way into the field by winning the Sun Belt tournament title. The Jaguars lost both of their games against SEC opponents this year — 11-8 at Alabama and 11-1 at LSU. Predicted winner: Florida
Yeah Terry, slow start and never really reaching the level expected. Now we have that same Miami in our bracket. And if we win our Regional then we likely have #2 Texas waiting. I am not optimistic as to making the College World Series.
Hog's are the #1 overall seed AJ, I hope you guys can take them down!! BTW I see that an Alabama Softball pitcher tossed a perfect game yesterday in WCWS. Has a really cool name, Montana Fouts. Looked her up, she's a babe to boot! Longhorns had a breeze yesterday with Southern, 11-0 Next up is Arizona State. ACC Overall 6-2, Host team record 1-0 (ND won). P5 game record (2-1) SEC Overall 6-3, Host team record 6-1 (Fla lost). P5 game record (1-1) PAC12 Overall 4-2, Host team record 3-0, P5 game record (0-1) Big12 Overall 3-1, Host team record 3-0, P5 game record (0-0) Big10 Overall 1-2, Host team record 0-0, P5 game record (0-0)
Uh oh... LSU Baseball coach, Paul Maineri, has retired and the rumor is that they want the to hire the Florida coach... and the Gators want the Irish coach... Link Jarrett..
Irish are up 26 - 3 going to the bottom of the 9th. I think it's in the bag. They play winner of UCONN and Central Michigan in the final. It's been like batting practice. Seems like there should be a 10 run rule after 7 or something.
A slightly related item: I've been watching a youtube channel where some guys take old bats from the middle to late 90's and try them out. That was back at the pinnacle of bat tech with ZERO controls on them. Some of them actually had gas bladders in the barrels! They were hitting dingers over roads that they previously hadn't even got to the edge of. It's crazy how explosive the old bats were and why its unlikely the old home run records from that era will ever be touched.
NU plays in loser bracket today against NJIT....then again against the Hogs tonite if they win. Hope is lingering in the bullpen.
ACC Overall 10-6 (none out), Host team record 2-0. P5 game record (2-4) SEC Overall 13-5 (Fla out), Host team record 11-3. P5 game record (4-1) PAC12 Overall 8-3 (none out), Host team record 6-0, P5 game record (0-2) Big12 Overall 6-2 (none out), Host team record 5-1, P5 game record (2-0) Big10 Overall 2-4 (Mich out), Host team record 0-0, P5 game record (0-2)
Here's one of the vids: The bats weren't this hot when I was in highschool, but all the same companies were around. I used an older version of the TPX.