RPI jumps up two spots after NSU game

Just at the right time as committee members are paying attention. If only we could have taken the series on OM or State, competing against them for seed.

I thought the general consensus around here was that midweek games did not matter?

I think they are pretty important for the pitching staff this time of year.

Just think about how our RPI will jump after we take a series from Florida.

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I mean... They matter a little bit, but not that much.

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They might not matter when you play Nichols, but it matters when you play ULL, Tulane, UNO, La Tech, Southeastern, Northwestern, who are all top 50 rpi teams.
They also matter b/c you should be trying to develop that 4th starter that you will more than likely need to win the SEC tourney, and also to get you out of a losers bracket if you find yourself in one in the tournament, not pitching johnny wholestaffs not giving a shite and letting people score 7+ runs on you every time.

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Not enough to have a full-on rant meltdown every single time we lose one.

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The melt comes from getting shutout (McNeese), or scoring 1 run (Tulane twice, Notre Dame), with all of your starters in the lineup during a midweek game, where the other team is not throwing one of their 3 best pitchers usually.

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Yeah, just hoping for one win in that series, and anything else would be huge boost to end the regular season. As far as RPI, how can it not go up playing #1 team in a 3 game series? Any way it could go down?

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If we get swept, I think we will drop a little.

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The melt comes from getting shutout (McNeese), or scoring 1 run (Tulane twice, Notre Dame), with all of your starters in the lineup during a midweek game, where the other team is not throwing one of their 3 best pitchers usually.

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Right and those melts aren't warranted. You know we beat Notre Dame, right?

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We have the 8th ranked SOS according to the NCAA

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That's impossible, because, you know, the baseball experts on there told all of us how soft our early season schedule was which would destroy our SOS and keep us from having a good RPI.

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Right and those melts aren't warranted.

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I think they are.

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You know we beat Notre Dame, right?

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What's your point? Doesn't change the fact that our hitters could only muster 1 run against sub par pitchers from a sub par team.
It's one thing to score 1 run and do our usually leave 10 men on base thing. it's another when you score 1 run against a shitty team and only get 4 hits in an 11 inning game.
They played 18 innings, scored 4 runs and had 8 hits against a garbage Notre Dame team. yeah they won them, simply b/c the other team was that bad.

I don't know what the hell went into these players minds for mid week games, but they simply didn't give a shite about winning them all year, and i think that stems from a coach that gives off the impression by what he says and how he pitches, that he doesn't give a shite about winning those games either.