D1 Baseball Rankings

[johnrr6]

The Big Ten has a lot of mediocre to bad teams.

Yes….it hurts the Big Ten. What is amazing to me is schools like Penn State and Ohio State are always in this category concerning baseball.

I thought Penn State was going to become more relevant. They hired Mike Gambino….a very good coach…and put some effort into the program and they were making strides but then this year has been a disaster. Purdue is a joke….they have a “good record” but play a schedule laughably weak all year till BiG play. (I will admit they are at least competitive this year in the BiG).

I also think that both D1 Baseball and the RPI raters tend to go too much on “tradition”….and are overlooking the changes to the conferences and how finances and the ability to fund up to 38 scholarships now will rebalance the sport.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Pac-12 schools have definitely helped tremendously. Though the Big Ten is still behind the Big 12 in the current conference RPI, ELO and ISR (5th vs 4th).

The gap has narrowed, as you say. Also helped by Texas, OU, A&M, and Missouri all gone to the SEC. Prior to the Pac-12 teams joining, the Big Ten was commonly 8th to as low as 15th in conference RPI prior to the Pac-12 schools joining. Again, now we're 5th.

UCLA, Oregon, and USC are huge boosts. Without them, the only likely NCAA tournament team would be Nebraska. Michigan and Purdue are on the bubble, with DI baseball having both currently out.

Anyhow, point being, when Nebraska was in the Big 12, that was a very good baseball conference (not just Oklahoma). We haven't seen quite that level that since. The Big Ten has a lot of mediocre to bad teams.

The bottom line, however, is Husker baseball was never nationally ranked while in the Big 12. They may have cracked the top 25 in 2004 or 2005 when they had Shane Komine at the top of their rotation but not for long. I agree the Big 12 schools were good. Texas was an annual CWS team. Oklahoma played faultless fundamental baseball and as a baseball purist I enjoyed watching their games and their style of play. But since the huskers changed conferences all of their sports (with one notable exception) has improved impressively, basketball being the best example.

 

[Ackos]

Lost game 1 to OSU 2-0

 

[johnrr6]

It was 2-1 and ended excitingly…

We almost came back and tied the game in the ninth

Neither side hit the ball very well…. pitching on both sides was very good. We just didn’t get it done.

Baseball.

They only had 7 hits and we had 4. We haven’t had just 4 hits in as long as I can remember….not our night.

Better day tomorrow I think.

 

[SunsetRed]

At least we avoided the shut out. Seems like Jasa did his part. If we could've had 4 outs in 9th we might've tied 'em...hehe.