Did you see who Grambling beat?
Hard to believe there are worse teams.
I understand scheduling a mid-week SWAC gameā¦but come on, a 3-game weekend seriesā¦COMPLETE WASTE of timeā¦iron sharpens iron
Go Coogs !
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Do we have iron to sharpen?
Would have been good to find out.
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Looks like we will begin to learn quite a bit soon. B12 starts this coming weekend with TTech (in Houston) followed by what appears to be a good UCF team (11-3) including a win over # 6 Florida. UCF hosts starting on March 21.
I would be interested to see how Tech RPI compares with UH. Tech is 3 - 10, but has played a true ābig leagueā schedule.
If we donāt win the Tech series, that will be a pretty good indicator that weāll be in the bottom quartile of the conference.
Granted, one series wonāt determine the season, and I donāt have a good feel for how much weaker the conference will be this year. Tech would have been battling to be top half in last yearās B12 - might be a little better than that with this yearās schedule.
Tech doesnāt have the pitching they used to pull in, so I would expect us to put up some runs.
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Gramblingās C just had TWO passed balls in the SAME INNING, resulting in a run.
Thatās some BAD catching!
Ten run inning. Grambling miraculously got out of it when we hit a line drive right into one of our runners with the bases loaded.
11-0 Coogs, End of 2nd.
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First Iāve watched live this weekend.
They are dreadful.
SWAC 15th in RPI of 16.
7 of 12 teams w 10 + losses already
8 of 12 when Grambling loses 10th today.
ADD 6 games w struggling SAM & Rice:
SAM maybe 3-13 when they play UH Weds.
SAM w a double header @ OK today.
Down 2 to 6 B 6th in the 1st game.
Then @ Baylor night before vs UH.
Rice in Bad News Owls territory.
They could be all time bad.
I think SAM can rally in CUSA play.
Good UH finishes Don Sanders on Mar 18th.
Glad he shook it off.
A frozen rope.
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UH started day at #90 RPI while Tech is #95 with only 3 wins.
The other issue is all these dreadful teams UH has played, well their RPIās and records will continue to get worse as season progressesā¦ā¦which means UH will be indirectly have that working against them all season.
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There are MANY D-3 schools that are WAY better than Gramblingā¦ā¦
I could list 6-7 off the top of my head that would easily sweep Grambling.
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Iām liking UH to go .500 + in B12.
Way ahead of teams snow blowing the diamond right now.
With all the tomato cans:
Going .600 + in B12 only thing gets them in NCAAs.
2 months of Big12 weekend baseball starts next week.
Been grinding Big12 hoop w a few random baseball games.
10-12 hours of Big12 baseball sounds good me.
(regardless of UH success or failure)
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Got a question.
In college baseball, does a starter still have to go 5 innings to qualify for a win?
i think Warren Nolan has us predicted to win a total of four conference games.
I can see why.
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OK, with todayās predictable blowout (13-4) win, we wrap up a completely LOPSIDED series.
Iām pretty sure weāll beat Sam this week, and thenā¦
THE REAL CHALLENGE BEGINS WITH TECH!!!
As for my earlier question, I guess the answer is no. Starters have to go minimum five for a win, just like MLB.
I am guessing weāll win more than four conference games. If we can win 8-10, will that at least get us in the conference tourney?
Thanks for the information. Surprises me that UH has a ābetterā RPI, (although probably is a strong statement about our early schedule that we are basically tied with a 3-10 team)but I guess it is still early.
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After the win the RPI now stands at # 99.
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Yes, the SP must go 5 IP as long as the game goes atleast 8 innings.
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Roger that! Thanks!
Last season lowest B12 RPI to make tourney:
KSU at 37th. (15-15 in Big12)
UCF made it at 14-15 in Big12 w 30th RPI.
Guessing UH needs @ 20 Big 12 wins.
Only UH loss so far that should RPI age well.
UTRGV still #1 in RPI. 6th SOS.
Left this season.
@ S Miss (22nd)
@ TCU x 2.
@ Texas #9
@ Rice
@ TT x2
@ Baylor
Top of Southland is decent.
UTRGV, Htown Chrsitian. SE LA.
Rice (2-13) just swept at home by Yale.
Rice next week has Houston Christian x 4. (@Rice, @ Htown Christian x2, @ Rice)
They need some wins.
This 1 ?
Like the David Pierce idea.
https://csnbbs.com/thread-1007613-page-4.html
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