I did not even know UM played last night, but.......

[StarkVegasSteve]

Think in basketball terms and you can figure it out. With our current SEC record, we should not be on the bubble of hosting. That's bad decision making from Lemonis.

It's comparing apples to oranges IMO. I don't think there's correlation between the two. I see the point you're trying to make, but I just don't think it would make as big of a difference as you think it would. The only thing you could've argued we didn't do this year that we've done the past few years is play in some type of early season tournament, and that's not entirely up to us. We've never really scheduled tough in the Non con. I mean these are our non con series the last 4 years:

2021: early season tournament, Tulane, Kent St, Eastern Michigan
2022: LBSU, Northern Kentucky, @Tulane, a mid week against TT, Princeton
2023: VMI, Arizona St, Frisco tournament, Lipscomb, midweek against Lafayette and Nicholls
2024: Air Force, Georgia Southern, Mt. St. Mary's, Evansville

I'm sure you look at it and say well this year sucks compared to the other years, but Georgia Southern is just two years removed from hosting a regional. Honestly out of the last 4 years, they're the only team we played in non con that has hosted a regional. I mean Arizona St is a name team, but they haven't been relevant in baseball since the 2000s. Outside of an early season tourney, we scheduled the exact same way we always do. Nothing burgers. Just like everyone else in the SEC. Unless it's an early season tourney, no one schedules tough in non con except the weird year that Cohen scheduled a home and home with Oregon.