Yeah I think he committed last week.
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Doesn't really matter. All we have to do is be good enough to get to the postseason. I would love for us to have some teams like Arkansas and Tennessee had last year and this year respectively where we dominate and get 25 SEC wins. But with national championships at the end of the year.
The biggest thing I see is we need to learn to handle success much better than we did last year. We have to be Nick Saban ruthless rather than keep guys around because we're nice.
As you can see this lineup has a lot more speed in it and that should allow us to be more versatile and flexible on offense. At the same time I don't think we're losing a lot of power either. Hopefully with guys on base more often will hit more 2-4 run home runs instead of random solo shots.
The pitching staff needed to be overhauled. There is going to be so much competition in the fall it's going to be crazy. It's also almost impossible to predict too.
We were pretty close to that in '16, but only had 21 wins. But, we have to remember they play in the East - and the East winner has an advantage playing at least 3 so-so to bad programs in UK, Missouri, and USC. Plus Florida and Vandy were not their typical juggernauts this year and UGA was a different team every weekend. I think in the West they are probably closer to a 20 win team than 25.
I think the recipe is get to 16-18 wins in SEC, schedule wins in the mid week so that you can build depth, and qualify for Hoover. Get out of Hoover as fast as possible if you know you will host a Regional. You want to be Top 16 when the Regionals are announced if possible. 37 wins will usually get MSU a host spot. Schedule accordingly based on your SEC slate. If you know you have Vandy and Florida on you schedule, limit the damage early season opponents can cause to your RPI but definitely schedule series you can win.
In 2 years, non-conference scheduling is going to require winnable games when Okla and UTex join.
I want winnable games in non-conf but I'd like to see us stop scheduling the Northern Kentucky's and Princeton's of the world.
Not that it mattered much this year anyway, but those are absolute RPI killers, even if you win. God forbid you lose one.
I'd like to see us schedule games with teams more like Troy, Sam Houston State, South Alabama, FAU, UAB, UCF, etc.
Those are all teams in the 80-110ish RPI range that we most likely will beat but won't destroy our RPI if we don't. It never hurts to be tested either.
Yes. That is my point as well. Don?t play a bunch of RPI killers but don?t schedule a Top 10 non-Conf schedule either. We have a reputation. We are in the SEC.we don?t need to prove we can beat Omaha quality Non-SEC opponents early in the year. We play enough of those in SEC play.
A 16-10 non-con schedule doesn?t do a lot of good of you go 14-16 in Conf. But 20-6 non Conf record sure looks better when you are 14-16 in the SEC.
Clark better start hitting better than .250 or he will find his butt riding the bench.
D1 baseball Currently has us as the number 4 team preseason for next year. That's a lot higher than I would of thought.
The whole SEC west will be top 15 other than bama and msu