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Determining college baseball’s most powerful conference is an easy task — depending on who you ask, of course…
[See the full post at: College Baseball’s Power Conferences]I think it’s safe to say that if we don’t get back to Omaha, it’s pretty much a failure of a season……….We’re not worried about the draft.
that’s bulletin board stuff.
The boys finished up their sweep of hapless Appalachian State with a 3-1 win today. Jake Armstrong accounted for all three Wolfpack RBIs.
I’m going to say something that is a bit inflammatory in ACC country. I don’t believe the ACC is the best baseball league. In fact, I’d put it third behind the Pac 12 and the SEC.
The reason that I say this is postseason play. We’ll send a ridiculous number to the post season, have 1 (and at most 2) make Omaha, but never take home any hardware. It’s hard to argue you are the best, when you can’t break through as a conference.
I hate to say it, but more than any other college sport, I see East coast (and specifically Southeast) bias in the baseball polls. I suspect that has to do with the fact that regular season games aren’t widely covered and the fact that at least one of the polls is in NC.
The Pac 12 is the league that I feel flies under the radar. They typically perform much stronger to seed and are all recruiting out of Arizona and California, which has big time high school baseball.
The ACC is honestly overrated every year. Yeah, we have a lot of top 25 teams, but I’ll believe that we have a #1 team when we take home a title. Until then, the ACC is a paper tiger.
Rodon is right about expecting a return trip to Omaha. The pitching staff looks great, especially with the Peterson twins appearing to be as advertised. I can’t wait to finally make it to a game next Saturday to watch them exact revenge on the Bruins.
I wouldn’t call App “hapless.” I’ll assume you got that from the local media outlet who wrote up the weekend’s games. App had us on the ropes twice, once with Rodon on the mound. They’re 0-for so far but have also had a series with an SEC school, MSU I think. The same local media knucklehead has chalked up a win for UNC this week, but don’t be shocked if App beats the Heels. They’re strong. I watched them play twice this weekend and was pretty impressed.
EDIT: Sorry. 4 SEC games -3 losss to Arkansas and 1 to UT.
App is now 0-7. That’s where my comment came from. They may be playing better than their record, but on the other hand, the record so far does sort of speak for itself.
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