Let's Rethink this whole National Seeding Thing

Still would like LSU to have a national seed.

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I'll take being at home over selective history.

This is the one thing that pisses me off when it comes to the length of a baseball season. It's all about when you get hot. It completely diminishes the value and significance of a large portion of the regular season and is the reason why college football will always be the superior sport (i.e. every game counts).

Seven of those teams failed to reach 40 wins in the regular season. That's pretty damn sad.

This is the dumbest logic ever. Yes let's make it harder on ourselves by having to go on the road. The reason that stat is like that is because there are a lot of really good teams that don't get a national seed and all it takes in baseball is to get hot at the right time.

How many of them still hosted supers, though?

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So although I hope we win the SEC Tournament, I am starting to think it might be better to not be a National Seed, history seems to agree.

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Perhaps it means that the selection committee needs to do a better job seeding teams. They have a unapologetic agenda of "spreading the wealth." They will give a lesser team in a under-represented region of the country a national seed just to build fan and viewing interest over there.

For example, Vanderbilt won in 2014 because they got paired with national seed Indiana, who didn't even make it out of their regional. They made it to the finals in 2015, and they were paired with another shitty artificially high-rated Big Ten team (Illinois) that only got their seed because they got a gaudy record playing in a bad conference, but a conference that rarely gets represented and could potentially draw big numbers.

The other factor is that they insist on pairing national seeds with the nearest 1 seed to them instead of weighting it.

That's how Virginia won in 2015. They gave the #1 national seed to UCLA, and paired them with UCSB. West Coast baseball has largely been a dumpster fire after Arizona and UCLA won their titles, but they still get 1 seeds and play each other in the Supers. In that bracket, you had 5 California teams out of the 8 teams, and two of the other three teams were the ones who won it, and both of them were 3 seeds.

Meanwhile, last year, you're getting slugfests in the Southeast between FSU and Florida, and TCU and aTm, and any of those teams were far superior to any team in the LA and Santa Barbara regionals.

I promise you that one or two SEC teams that have earned national seeds won't get them because "that's not fair" and "that's not good for the growth of college baseball."

All of LSU's championships came with a national seed. I want a national seed.

While I don't agree with your logic (I want to watch LSU win the super at the Box!!!), I will say that the list you have shows the errors/biases of the selection committee. This "committee" shouldn't exist; at least not anymore.

I understand the argument that there's teams that can't really afford to travel and play; so those teams don't have the same opportunity to showcase their talents as the "big" teams. (Personally, I say "tough luck. If you can't afford to play with the big boys then either don't play or play understanding that this is the big boy's show." If that makes me a dick then so be it.)

They've become a lot like the selection of the Heisman - how many times recently has the trophy gone to the popular guy and not the best guy? How many of those winners have gone on to succeed at the next level? (/rant about Heisman)

This "committe" and the NCAA want to spread the host sites around and whatever altruistic reason they claim for doing so is bullshite. It is all about increasing overall attendance and thereby increasing their income. They're doing this at the expense of worthy teams but don't care about them because those teams have already reached the max/near-max of their profitability.

(Just like nerfing the hell out of the bats - so much so that they eventually had to change the ball; and they only changed the ball instead of the bats again because they didn't want to admit that they screwed up with the bats. (/rant about the bats))