SLU sweeps.

Go Lions

i want SLU to be ranked.. but lets not cherry pick polls..

ill post a little something on one of those 'non legit' polls in a little while..

the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll has SLU 35th..

i assume you think its not legit because of the voters..??

so, lets look at those voters..

Terry Alexander, Jacksonville;
John Anderson, Minnesota;
Ed Blankmeyer, St. John's;
Rob Cooper, Wright State;
Sherman Corbett, Texas-San Antonio;
Tim Corbin, Vanderbilt;
David Eldredge, Southern Utah;
Mike Gaski, North Carolina-Greensboro;
Nino Giarratano, San Francisco;
Gary Gilmore, Coastal Carolina;
Keith Guttin, Missouri State;
Danny Hall, Georgia Tech;
Daniel Heefner, Dallas Baptist;
Loren Hibbs, Charlotte;
Charlie Hickey, Central Connecticut State;
George Horton, Oregon;
Steve Jaksa, Central Michigan;
Omar Johnson, Jackson State;
Rick Jones, Tulane;
Steve Kittrell, South Alabama;
Paul Kostacopoulos, Navy;
Kevin Leighton, Manhattan;
Gary McClure, Austin Peay;
Mervyl Melendez, Bethune-Cookman;
Gary Powers, Nevada;
Mark Scalf, North Carolina-Wilmington;
Jim Schlossnagle, TCU;
Matt Senk, Stony Brook;
Doug Smith, UC-Riverside;
Steve Smith, Baylor;
Bob Whalen, Dartmouth

coaches in bold took their team to the tournament last year.. underlined coaches have had great success as coaches.. and the little nugget in italics coaches the team SLU just swept to hopefully vault them into the top 25 of all polls.. lets assume these guys know college baseball..


now, i dont want to argue with you guys about SLU.. i hope they climb the polls all year, enough so to not get placed in the BR regional and do some damage somewhere..

i think the USA Today/ESPN Coaches, Collegiate Baseball and Baseball America are the most legit.. i've never paid attention to the Rivals and NCBWA though..

Hey man I said IMO. That means you can have yours as well. I do not have to agree with you and you do not have to agree with me. Unless you have watched SLU as much as I have (only missed the ULL game) and I have been to 3 LSU games. I see the distance between LSU(which is a top 5 team people say) and SLU(which is not according to you AT THIS POINT). Notice the at this point cause I noticed you said you hope they are. After watching both teams SLU is not as good as lsu of course but they are not 34 teams between LSU and SLU like those polls say. SO either lsu should be ranked in the teens or SLU should be ranked in the top 25. ITs all IMO and like I said im all for you having your own opinion. lol

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actually, they dont have any real tough weekend series

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Southland is tough to tell. Last year they were super close to being a 3 bid league. SLU was one of those "last 4 out" teams.

So the competition is there..just not alot of name recognition..and in conference anything can happen in baseball. But if they can take their 2 out of 3 on the road I think any team in any conference would be happy with that.

Yeah I really dont want SLU getting the 2nd seed in BR....be too tough on my insides.

Wherever SLU goes though i'll make the trip. Just for it being so new would be a blast.

Last year Texas State was around the top 25 and my mind is slipping the team that was the conf. automatic bid.

If SLU plays LSU in post season I will have to go for SLU because I have followed them more and my best friend is on the team. I would MUCH MUCH rather they not put them together.