re: Discounting Coastal due to SOS

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26 straight is 26 straight. Any team that makes it to the college World Series finals is legit

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This. Coastal Carolina won it all in 2016 and been a consistent tournament team. They’re a good program.

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This thread wasn't to say that Coastal played a tougher schedule than LSU. It was to address all the people posting that Coastal's win streak is due to their schedule

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I missed that in the title and the body of your post. I assumed it was simply suggesting people were discounting Coastal. I know some are, and they shouldn't. The 26-game winning streak includes a clean regional, superregional, and CWS bracket, which is always impressive.

The early part of the streak was against weak teams, but until they lose, it is still impressive.

Here is the list of the streak with RPIs. Note how strong the back end of that streak is.

at James Madison RPI 198
at James Madison RPI 198
at James Madison RPI 198
at UNC Greensboro* RPI 153
Appalachian State RPI 185
Appalachian State RPI 185
Appalachian State RPI 185
No. 9 Clemson* RPI 12
Louisiana–Monroe RPI 183
Louisiana–Monroe RPI 183
Louisiana–Monroe RPI 183
at Old Dominion RPI 108
at Old Dominion RPI 108
at Old Dominion RPI 108
vs. (9) Georgia Southern RPI 7
vs. (4) Marshall RPI 97
vs. (4) Marshall RPI 97
vs (2) Southern Miss RPI 21
(4) Fairfield RPI 73
(3) East Carolina RPI 52
(3) East Carolina RPI 52
(4) No. 9 Auburn RPI 4
(4) No. 9 Auburn RPI 4
Arizona RPI 24
(8) No. 8 Oregon State RPI 8
Louisville RPI 27

So they played less than 65% of the Q1 games than LSU.

Played less that 75% of the Q1/Q2 games as LSU.

So a large portion of their games were Q3.

SEC had 15 of 16 teams in Q1 and all 16 in Q1/Q2.

Sun Belt had 3/14 in Q1, 6/14 in Q2, and 5/14 in Q3.

9 SEC teams in top 5% of RPI, 11 SEC teams top 10% of RPI, and 13 in top 15%.

2 Sub Belt teams in top 10% of RPI.

Their schedule was significantly weaker, and it is easier to beat a bunch of middling teams consistently than beating top teams for half your games and then a bunch of scrubs for half your games.

In the end, both teams are very good and CCU could definitely beat LSU. The numbers you posted don't hurt LSU at all and in fact, make LSU look better.

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When did those Q1 wins come? Not all Q1 wins are the same. For instance, a Q1 win in a mid-week game isn't nearly as impressive as a Q1 win in a conference series. Just looking at their schedule, they played NC State, Wake Forest (x2) and Clemson (x2) in mid-week games.

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None of that fricking matters, dumbasses.

Coastal has destroyed the competition in the NCAA Tournament for an 8-0 record, and they’ve made it all the way to the College Word Series Finals. If you do that, then you’re legitimate.

It’s completely irrelevant what their regular season was like.

But you are discounting competition. You can literally go onto their website and sort by sun belt stats. In 30 games in the sun belt, their pitching was a 2.64ERA and they averaged 8.13 runs per game

Against all other teams (including half are teams like Fairfield, UNCW, Campbell, etc), they are averaging 7.01 runs per game and ERA of 3.66

That means they are scoring one run less and giving up one more run per game. And I bet if I took just P4 conference teams, shite would probably get wild. So yea, as a fan, me thinking they’re overrated because of SOS is warranted

I’ll give them credit for upsetting Auburn but they were a different team late in the year compared to when we played them. Louisville wouldn’t be a top 10-12 team in the sec. Oregon State and UCLA are the same average programs that play weak competition

I’m starting to think some of you are undercover CC fans on a campaign of garnered respect.

Man who gives a shite? I’m ready to see LSU spank that arse.

Coastal ain't beat nobody worth a shite in a 3 game series.
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They haven't lost a game in their entire post-season. Any team that makes it to the final series of the CWS can win it.

They made it to the finals and beat some good teams along the way. Anyone who think this isn’t going to be a battle is one of the mouth breathers who each year says lsu football will beat the opening opponent by three TDs because they have no ability to think different. They aren’t based in reality and let their own meathead reality shape everything they say.

Anyone who doesn't realize Coastal Carolina is actually a very good team is going to be in for a rude awakening. This is going to be a very tough series. They are very disciplined and well coached.