Cheese coaching 3rd base shows Lemonis doesn't care about base running

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Originally Posted by Coach34

Because alot of our fans think college baseball is still in 1988

Our schedule was probably worse then. We were playing people like Livingston and Belhaven at that time.

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Originally Posted by HoopsDawg

You must not like hosting.

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Originally Posted by HoopsDawg

Yeah, they would be fine if we weren't also playing Queens. I just imagine being Lemonis sitting in my office on my leather bucket putting together a schedule. And I say, you know who we really need to play...Queens. That's the ticket to a great RPI.

Guess what? All of our teams that have ever hosted have played a similar or easier OOC schedule than the one we have this year.

RPI is much more about not losing as much as it is who you play.

Here's current RPI number 1 Tennessee's OOC schedule.

Hofstra (RPI 207)
UNC Ashville (RPI 155)
Samford (RPI 134) Guess who plays them in one week?
North Alabama (RPI 187) Seems familiar?
Oklahoma State (RPI 67)
Rice (RPI 210)
Arizona (RPI 31)- We should play in a tournament like this- oh wait...
Radford (RPI 172)
Xavier (RPI 2) With an 8-13 record it's a pretty safe bet that this is going to drop
St. Bonaventure (RPI 57) This is the name brand team you're talking about right?
West Georgia (RPI 235)
East Tennessee State (RPI 24) Another name brand RPI team. Their RPI is probably being inflated by beating Tennessee.

And guess who else is on Tennessee's OOC list- Queens. I guess Vitello is a joke when he puts together Tennessee's schedule too?

MSU's schedule

Manhatten RPI 252
USM RPI 47 and a top 25 team on the road
Missouri State RPI 257
Troy RPI 17
See above for Houston Classic teams
USM RPI 47 at home meaning our first three midweek games were against top 25 teams
Queens RPI 116- actually better than most of Tennessee's opponents and hardly a RPI killer
Old Dominion RPI 54 in Biloxi
Nicholls RPI 173 in Biloxi
Jackson State RPI 272 and one of the better HBCU baseball programs in the game

I think I read RPI uses the opponents winning percentage and opponent's opponents winning percentage as the metric for our strength of schedule.

So it really doesn't seem to measure the relative strength between an SEC team and a SWAC team for example. Now I'm not a scholar of these metrics so feel free to chime in if it does in some way.

"The players just have to perform" excuse might have merit if this was just sporadic and random incidents, but it's been happening frequently for 4 years now, so that tells me we're doing a piss poor job of coaching. Or evaluating the wrong players which again falls back to coaching.