re: Mainieri is indirectly conceding midweek games by using Johnny wholestaff

That's has nothing to do with anything I posted...

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shite, I saw LSU win a midweek game against Grambling a few years ago and their RPI STILL took a hit. They'd have actually been better off if the game had been rained out.

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Dallas Baptist, a couple years ago, had one of the top RPIs in the country. They got rained out of a three game set with some shithook school from the northeast that otherwise would have weighed them down.

It's why I don't think we should ever play a SWAC school other than Southern. And I think we should play Southern every regardless of RPI affect.

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What about when we got left out of the tourney with our 36 or whatever RPI in 2010 or 11

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It was actually 23 or 25. Highest RPI to ever be left out of the tournament.

However, if you'll recall, that team started out with some ridiculous W/L record like 32-6 and then just fell apart. Had the wheels not come off for that team in the last month to six weeks, they were a shoo-in to host at the very least.

Perhaps I shouldn't say it's ALL about RPI. That's not the only thing the committee looks at. But don't poo poo it's significance, either.

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It's why I don't think we should ever play a SWAC school other than Southern.

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And yet, you can book it: the makeup for the San Diego rainout will be Grambling, J-State, or Alcorn. It's an easy out because SWAC teams play about 45 games and have a month between the end of their season and the start of their tournament. Why, I don't know.

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am I missing something? We made the tournament in 2010 and lost to UC Irvine. Why are people saying we were left out?

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They are off by one year. We got left out of the NCAA tournament in 2011 when we didn't even make the SEC tournament.

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Skip was guaranteed to host under the old format basically no matter what. He correctly identified that mid-week games were meaningless in that system. LSU hosted even when they weren't the top seed. Mainieri is not afforded that luxury. Mainieri's midweek games are of some importance and comparatively are VASTLY more important than Skip's were.

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Paul has been a national seed 5 years in a row and they lost midweek games during that stretch. Complain all you want about how lsu has done in the postseason but the last 5 years CPM has proven he knows what it takes to coach a team for a full season and be a top 8 seed which during the regular season is as good as you can hope for.

Who is complaining? It is undisputed that the baseball environment that Skip competed in is nothing like what Mainieri competes in. Drawing comparisons to how things were done under an old system is stupid. Skip had bigger rosters. He had a different postseason format. There were relatively few powers. The conference members did not emphasize the sport the same way, etc.

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He does this crap every season, and adds around 3 or 4 losses each year.

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And yet, we're still getting national seeds. I think its safe to say that doesn't matter as long as we take care of business on the weekends

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adds around 3 or 4 losses each year.

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Gasp! 3 to 4 losses?!?! In a baseball season? That's completely unacceptable! Undefeated or bust for Mainieri next season!


I get that losing midweek games sucks, but it's really about making sure our pitchers take their lumps and we can see what we have. The real question is why we left runners stranded nearly every damn inning. We should have put up double digits on them. My humble opinion is that the lineup needs a few tweaks, but I'm sure Mainieri will continue to tweak it over the next few weeks until we get production where we want it.