Tech

By Sven Ottke

May 26, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

As an outsider, I have to admit I like Ga Tech’s chances to advance out of that regional. Georgia didn’t deserve a nat’l seed. They had the second worst record of any team hosting a regional and easily the worst of the top 8. How on earth does the conf with the #4 RPI get 9 teams into the tourney? The committe chair is an SEC guy that’s how. What a sham and a shame.

By Mike Knobler

May 26, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

Sven

Good question. Larry Templeton gave two answers to your question about the SEC. First, it played a better non-conference schedule than it did last year, when it got fewer bids. Second, unlike the ACC, where three teams were clearly dominant (Miami, UNC and FSU), the SEC was more balanced. If you look at each team individually that got in, there really aren’t any unjustifiable selections from the SEC. The one that’s probably most questionable is Oklahoma, in my opinion.

By Wah, wah,wah

May 26, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

Sven Ottke sounds like a typical whining and crying Gtech calculus excuse fair weather fan. If the ACC had any record of winning the CWS they would get more teams into the regionals. Only one CWS championship for the ACC and that was Wake Forest more than half a century ago. Miami has several championships but they were all before they lowered their standards and joined the ACC.

By Fire Danny Hall

May 26, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

If Tech loses another regional in Athens, Danny’s butt will be really warm next year. Tech spent a lot of money on that baseball stadium and needs to host some regionals to be able to pay for it and finally finish the third base stands. Danny Hall needs to bring in a quality pitching coach with college experience and Paul Hewitt needs to bring in a quality offensive assistant if either one is doing to right the ship and save their job next year. Otherwide, D Rad is going to bring in his own man to turn things around like he did in football. With all of the talent that the baseball team has had, there is no excuse to be playing so many regionals in Athens and going to Omaha fewer times than Georgia.

By Seth63

May 26, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this

What does the number of CWS championships have anything to do with how many teams a conference gets into the tourney?? It doesnt’t, I am just glad that Oregon State didn’t get in just because they are defending national champs. Tech and Arizona have the most beef about not hosting an NCAA regional. Arizona won series with UGA, Arizona State and Cal State Fullerton (I believe it was CSF could be wrong there.) Tech had an RPI in the top 10. Beat UGA two out of three and had 9 of their 19 losses to 3 of the top 4 national seeds, and they won two out of three from Coastal Carolina.

By BWHDAWG

May 26, 2008 8:08 PM | Link to this

Seth63,

As you tech smartA$$es have been known to say more than once to UGA in football, just win your conference. Tech finished fourth in the ACC so quit crying and play ball. Continue to win or you have no beef. Come on over to Athens and take your medicine.

By KRB

May 26, 2008 8:38 PM | Link to this

The ACC is the Dolly Pardon of baseball conferences(EXTREMELY TOP HEAVY).Duke, Maryland, Boston College and Virginia Tech are bad baseball teams. Those type of programs do not exist in the SEC. Conference wins mean so much more in the SEC and the committee recognizes that accordingly. As great as FSU, UNC, and the U are, that’s how pathetic the bottom four are.

P.S. Putting tech and uga in the same regional is lazy. Does this bother anyone else as much as me?

By Ramblin 1

May 26, 2008 10:18 PM | Link to this

We will have to remember that after selecting the number 1 seeds team selection for the remainder of the regionals is not a matter of records but how to fill the stands with fans.

By yellowblood

May 26, 2008 10:23 PM | Link to this

Screwed by those low class rednecks AGAIN!! I hope we beat their a—-s again and have one great Tickle Pile. THWG!! We’re so much smarter than they are.

By Seth63

May 26, 2008 11:14 PM | Link to this

BWHDawg, I never said that UGA wasn’t deserving of a regional, a national seed is a different story. Duke was 37-18 this year, which is better than UGA’s record so check some numbers before you start talking about weak bottom halves. I do believe that Tech deserved to host a regional but hey I like the draw we got, getting to play on a field where we came away with an 11-1 win. This is not football and you don’t have to win your conference to have a shot (UNC and FSU didn’t).

By KRB

May 26, 2008 11:48 PM | Link to this

28 of Duke’s wins were versus the following… Iona, Valpo, Brown, Columbia, Alabama A&M, Richmond, Hartford, UNC Greensboro, NC Central, Campbell, Davidson, Maryland, Longwood, and Virginia Tech MEANWHILE 22 of UGA’s wins were versus the following… FSU, Arizona, Oregon State, Alabama, Florida, LSU, Ole Miss, Georgia Tech, Arkansas, South Carolina, Kentucky, Clemson, and Vanderbilt

You want to compare the two go ahead

By Mike

May 27, 2008 6:57 AM | Link to this

KRB,

The issue was the business about the ACC being “top-heavy” while the SEC is “deep”. Let’s look at RPI’s, shall we? 1 Miami 2 UNC 3 FSU 7 Georgia Tech 12 NCSU 23 UVA 26 Clemson 54 Wake 57 BC 73 Duke 86 Va Tech 88 UMD

9 LSU 15 Florida 17 Georgia 19 USCe 30 Vandy 32 Arky 33 Kentucky 40 Ole Miss 48 Bama 66 Auburn 92 Tenn 126 Miss St

Gee, the worst RPI’s on the list are, umm, Tennessee and Miss. State, NOT Duke or Virginia Tech. Hmmm. Tell me again how deep the SEC is and how having their guy as Chairman of the comittee did not matter? No one is arguing that UGa did not deserve to be in the tourney, or to host. But 9 teams in? From a relatively weak conference?

By Jaime Gaverts

May 27, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

Mike, please don’t confuse KRB with logic and facts.

By KRB

May 27, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this

I’m not a SEC gorilla(one who pounds his chest and spits at every other conference as if it is inferior in every single way), but I do have eyes. The last couple of years the ACC has had the SEC’s number, but come on. After watching the following four teams play I can’t see how you can defend these weak programs. Improvement or not, these four teams consistently find themselves as bottom feeders. You take Maryland, Va Tech, BC, and Duke and I’ll take any four from the bottom of the SEC from any year. Base it on RPI, Win total, color of uniforms I don’t care. Just as a reference, I personally think that the SEC is down again this year and the likelihood of one of them reaching Omaha is smaller than people accept. They have a large collection of very similar above average teams. If the ACC can’t end their national championship drought this year with UNC, FSU, and the U then I will really feel bad for ACC backers.

By KRB

May 27, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

And no Uga did not deserve it’s national seed.

By Belvedere

May 27, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

Out of curiosity, has UGA ever played at Ga. Tech in a regional? …Also, it seems odd that while Tech and Georgia seem to be paired yearly in either a regional or super regional, Clemson and South Carolina never do. It took them reaching the CWS a few years back to play each other in the post season for the first time since the early ‘80’s.

By Sounds about right!

May 30, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

I heard that the whole Tech Baseball team will be shooting Heroin up before the big game tonight against Louisville!

By baseballfan

May 30, 2008 7:49 PM | Link to this

Sounds about right…. that is a pretty classless comment. That young man’s family is going through alot right now - that is a tough situation.

On to baseball, UGA gets beat by Lipsomb? and Tech may get beat by Louisville as their pitcher is a stud.

Tech and UGA could meet in the losers bracket right away.

UGA clearly did not deserve an 8 seed - Losers of 5 of 6, 2 and out in the SEC tourney, losing to Lipscomb in the regionals….wow - what the heck?