re: selection committee

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all i'm saying is that i'm not that pissed cause i didn't feel like they deserved it.

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I understand being pissed at the team's performance this year, I am too. But putting all bias and emotion aside and taking team names off the resumes they most certainly did deserve to get in. Am I devastated? No. Does anything I deem unfair piss me off? Yes.

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LSU was shitty compared to SEC standards, not just LSU standards. They sucked in conference play ... no other way to describe it. Personally, I'm in the camp that believes if you aren't good enough to make your conference tourney, you're not good enough to make the NCAA tourney (again forget about what happens with other underserving teams).

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What if the SEC let everybody in the conference tourny like other conferences do? That argument doesn't hold water because it is not a uniform standard for everyone. Baylor and K-State were just as shitty in conference and shittier out of conference and overall. Baylor's overall record is atrocious.

WHAT did St. John's do to merit getting in?

Ok, leave us out. Surely there is another choice to get in besides Saint John's.

There will never be a love for college baseball in the northeast. Never. It's too cold and it's a professional sports-dominated culture. The only baseball that matters in NY is Yankees and Mets. I guarantee you less than 200 of the 15 million greater NY citizens were watching the selection show, biting their nails. I guarantee you that less than 200 people from St. John's make the trip to Charlottesville.

Socialism in sports. Hell, our whole country is being subject to the whole "That's not nice. Now, you be a good boy and share with everyone else." Sports should not be determined by geography unless you're setting up a conference.

Not one team from LA made the cut, yet three from New York did. That is just a travesty. Rethink and remake the formula. 36 win teams who play in the greatest conference in America deserve better. How does Baylor get in and much more a TWO seed with a record that was a series from being .500? Oh that's right. The chair is from the Big XII.

Also, look at LSU vs. Big XII/SWC over the last 25 years. LSU beat what might have been the greatest collegiate team ever in 1989 when they took a DH from A&M in College Station. LSU beats Baylor in 2003 to go to Omaha. LSU beats A&M the following year to go. LSU beats A&M and Texas in the CWS. Then, of course, two years ago we beat Texas again.

The committee should not be made up of obvious homers and guys from Valpo and Bucknell who have not seen 90 percent of the field even play on tv. Seriously, what was their criteria for selecting teams? Read the Sporting News?

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So if the SEC expanded the tourney to 10 teams?

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Maybe it's time for that to happen ... can you influence that decision? I can't.

Stop crying. Win and your in.

Did Baylor make the conference tourny

I'm not so sure that we are so much better then the other teams that got in. The only reason we ended the season 'on a roll' is because we played weaker teams. FACE IT - THIS YEAR LSU baseball was not that good.

So if all SEC teams (esp Arkansas and Miss St) make it to a super regional then LSU fans should really come unglued about not being selected to the tourney. That would certainly prove that LSU deserved to be in the top 64.

I agree with you original poster - don't let the children frighten away your free speech, some of them being notorious for that.

Everybody just hold tight and see if Mainieri makes an attempt to "fix things" by making the much needed staff changes this week. Hope the guy isn't going to continue with his buddy system a la Gerry DiNardo and not replace assistant coaches that are obviously not of the same quality as the assistants they replaced. (Rooney and Godwin) DiNardo didn't replace replace Ron Case and Carl Reese with quality replacements and the rest is history. Hope Mainieri isn't going to stubbornly go down that road.........