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Cahill is the same sorry POS that wrote how much he “feels” for UConn being a northern school. What a tool.
 
Baseballguy said:
Cahill is the same sorry POS that wrote how much he “feels” for UConn being a northern school. What a tool.
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Did I see someone say he used to write about the Braves?

Sounds like some wannabe Lewis Grizzard.
 
I agree that the anger at Fitt is misplaced. The entire D1 site has been behind UConn since I’ve followed them. They really pushed for the team last year and made noise about how they were snubbed for being left out. This year both Fitt and Rogers put out a number of tweets saying they think UConn was a better host than NC State. Meanwhile, Dweeb McGee is taking a victory lap on twitter because UConn has “nothing stand out on their resume” despite the extensive reasons I can list.
 
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More than annoyed by this after a night's sleep.

Look -- if we're fair, we all know that, at the margins, there will always be disagreements in selection and seeding. Saying that a team with an RPI of 16 is, all factors considered, going to be seeded 17 or 18 is hardly ridiculous.

That being said, the Committee has traditionally given a break at the margins to northeast/rust belt teams because the timing of the college baseball season doesn't match with the weather. A Northeastern team like UConn has to start playing games before they've even been practicing outside, has to play the first month of the season entirely on the road, has to play in UConn's case more than two thirds of its games on the road and has to overcome a lack of fan interest because by the time the weather is pleasant enough for fans to want to sit outside and watch a baseball game, the season was ending.

The NCAA doesn't control the weather, but they have two choices. Just ignore the inherent advantages of playing in the sunbelt, or recognize them and bend over backwards to make sure that teams in the rust belt and northeast have a chance to compete when their performance has earned it. We had more road wins than any other major school, was the second best team over the course of the season in the fourth best conference (a conference that was closer to second than fifth) and UConn -- and fans in the Northeast -- could have been given a tournament.

The next time the Sunbelt wants to leave the Union,, we should just let it..
 
There is one thing I find interesting about the debate about the integrity of the writers for D1Baseball.com towards UConn. Generally, the people who have been posting on the Boneyard consistently for several years now on UConn baseball (@huskymedic, @uconnbaseball, @Baseballguy, and I would include myself as well) all believe the D1Baseball writers have been giving UConn a fair shake for quite some time now. In fact, the business about UConn baseball being a dark horse for Omaha pretty much started with these guys. To try to turn these guys into the enemy at this point is just plain short sighted.
 
businesslawyer said:
More than annoyed by this after a night's sleep.

Look -- if we're fair, we all know that, at the margins, there will always be disagreements in selection and seeding. Saying that a team with an RPI of 16 is, all factors considered, going to be seeded 17 or 18 is hardly ridiculous.

That being said, the Committee has traditionally given a break at the margins to northeast/rust belt teams because the timing of the college baseball season doesn't match with the weather. A Northeastern team like UConn has to start playing games before they've even been practicing outside, has to play the first month of the season entirely on the road, has to play in UConn's case more than two thirds of its games on the road and has to overcome a lack of fan interest because by the time the weather is pleasant enough for fans to want to sit outside and watch a baseball game, the season was ending.

The NCAA doesn't control the weather, but they have two choices. Just ignore the inherent advantages of playing in the sunbelt, or recognize them and bend over backwards to make sure that teams in the rust belt and northeast have a chance to compete when their performance has earned it. We had more road wins than any other major school, was the second best team over the course of the season in the fourth best conference (a conference that was closer to second than fifth) and UConn -- and fans in the Northeast -- could have been given a tournament.

The next time the Sunbelt wants to leave the Union,, we should just let it..
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Not only that but, let's compare the Conference RPIs of the AAC vs the SunBelt:

4. AAC (.5494)
5. PAC
6. Big Ten
7. ASun
8. SunBelt (.5199)
9. MWC
10. MVC
11. CUSA
12. Big East
13. Colonial
14. Big West
15. West Coast
16. Southern (.4955)

Difference from UCONN to SunBelt = 0.0295
Difference from SunBelt to Southern = 0.0244

The SunBelt is closer in RPI to the Southern Conference than it is to the AAC!
 
dbmill said:
There is one thing I find interesting about the debate about the integrity of the writers for D1Baseball.com towards UConn. Generally, the people who have been posting on the Boneyard consistently for several years now on UConn baseball (@huskymedic, @uconnbaseball, @Baseballguy, and I would include myself as well) all believe the D1Baseball writers have been giving UConn a fair shake for quite some time now. In fact, the business about UConn baseball being a dark horse for Omaha pretty much started with these guys. To try to turn these guys into the enemy at this point is just plain short sighted.
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Just because us "new guys" haven't been posting on this board, it doesn't mean we haven't been following the team (and college baseball publications) for just as long. For the record, I have also said that D1Baseball has been quite fair.
 
HawkHusky said:
Just because us "new guys" haven't been posting on this board, it doesn't mean we haven't been following the team (and college baseball publications) for just as long. For the record, I have also said that D1Baseball has been quite fair.
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I admit it is possible that I wrote it poorly, but I found the dichotomy with us "old timers" and others on "D1Baseball and UConn" to be an interesting part of the debate, so I just thought I'd point it out. Glad to hear you also think D1Baseball's coverage for UConn has been quite fair.
 
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How was the attendance at the 2010 Tourney games in Norwich? I don't remember, was there a buzz at the stadium?
 
Bezzz said:
How was the attendance at the 2010 Tourney games in Norwich? I don't remember, was there a buzz at the stadium?
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I was at the Norwich games, it was very good. I believe about 5,000 people attended on Friday night when UConn played. Interesting side note was that in 2010 UConn was not the No. 1 seed in the Norwich regional, but they still got the opportunity to host.
 
dbmill said:
I was at the Norwich games, it was very good. I believe about 5,000 people attended on Friday night when UConn played. Interesting side note was that in 2010 UConn was not the No. 1 seed in the Norwich regional, but they still got the opportunity to host.
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UConn was selected as a host that year as a #2 seed because of the committee's stated desire that year to have more sites out of the traditional geographgic locations. A vision that the current committee does not embrace. Once again the NCAA found something that worked so it is disregarded.
 
DefCONNOne said:
I'm singling him out because he's peddling the notion that UCONN was passed over because of Dodd Stadium. Which as I've said previously, is better than NC State's facilities. Now he's pivoted from the Dodd Stadium angle and is now going with the on-campus/off-campus reason why UCONN was passed over. He and Kendall Rogers are the only 2 national writers I'm familiar with, so that's probably why I'm angry with them.
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What's on campus vs. off campus got to do with anything? It's summer...schools are not in session, except for summer semesters, perhaps. What's he thinking, a bunch of summer semester commuter students are going to show up for games on campus? We would draw a lot larger crowd in Norwich. The guy's a jerk.
 
UConnNick said:
What's on campus vs. off campus got to do with anything? It's summer...schools are not in session, except for summer semesters, perhaps. What's he thinking, a bunch of summer semester commuter students are going to show up for games on campus? We would draw a lot larger crowd in Norwich. The guy's a jerk.
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He didn’t select the hosts, the committee did. D1 had UConn as a host in Norwich. He is trying to give rational to the readers because you know the NCAA won’t. He’s only doing his job
 
HawkHusky said:
The Selection Committee Chair is Ray Tanner (South Carolina AD).

My ECU buddy just informed me that Mr. Tanner played basketball for the Wolfpack and then coached there for about a decade.

Conspiracy Kitty, where art thou?
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Conspiracy Kitty says:
On my way to have "a word" with the selection committee.
 
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ASweet3781 said:
I truly believe this is also one reason (of many) we ended on the outside looking in after realignment. Denying Duke, Kentucky, and Tennessee 15 championships in men's and women's basketball is one thing. But our football team making a BCS bowl in it's 10th year of D1 existence was a step too far. I still see random tweets when I search UConn on twitter decrying us making that game and how undeserved it was. Not to mention the myth spreading about how many fans we brought. The good ole boys took that personally. We overstepped our bounds there. Those games are for them. They'd rather a northern school like Pitt, Rutgers, or BC into the P5 that is no threat to them in anything and has no fan base.
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As much as it pains me to admit it, it was BCU backballing us when 'Cuse made the move. Pitt was put in over us at their request, because they "wanted to be the only New England team." L'ville was bad luck/timing with FSU/Clemson flexing their muscles. It is what it is.
 
Baseballguy said:
I agree that the anger at Fitt is misplaced. The entire D1 site has been behind UConn since I’ve followed them. They really pushed for the team last year and made noise about how they were snubbed for being left out. This year both Fitt and Rogers put out a number of tweets saying they think UConn was a better host than NC State. Meanwhile, Dweeb McGee is taking a victory lap on twitter because UConn has “nothing stand out on their resume” despite the extensive reasons I can list.
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They really haven't, at least not in the 2 years I've followed them. Unless you consider the lukewarm support they get from Fitt and Rogers to mean they get behind UCONN? But it's obvious I'm in the minority on that. As for last year, the "noise" they made about last year's snub was essentially, "We think UCONN should've gotten in, but we have no problem with the field the committee chose.". I don't know about you but that's not the kind of "noise" that screams UCONN got screwed. As far as Rogers's tweets on UCONN are concerned, I haven't checked this morning, but he's not tweeted about UCONN getting screwed. In fact, he's all over the map with that. Points to the RPI as a reason Texas is hosting, but says not a word about RPI when mentioning UCONN getting hosed.
 
dbmill said:
There is one thing I find interesting about the debate about the integrity of the writers for D1Baseball.com towards UConn. Generally, the people who have been posting on the Boneyard consistently for several years now on UConn baseball (@huskymedic, @uconnbaseball, @Baseballguy, and I would include myself as well) all believe the D1Baseball writers have been giving UConn a fair shake for quite some time now. In fact, the business about UConn baseball being a dark horse for Omaha pretty much started with these guys. To try to turn these guys into the enemy at this point is just plain short sighted.
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Well that's like your opinion man. I've been reading them for some time now and their lukewarm support disguised as being a "friend to UCONN", is disengenuous at best. They may not hate UCONN with the fire of a thousand suns, but their meh attitude over last year's snub told me all I need to know about these "fair and impartial" reporters from D1Baseball. And that's like MY opinion man.
 
UConnNick said:
What's on campus vs. off campus got to do with anything? It's summer...schools are not in session, except for summer semesters, perhaps. What's he thinking, a bunch of summer semester commuter students are going to show up for games on campus? We would draw a lot larger crowd in Norwich. The guy's a jerk.
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I don't know, but that's what Aaron Fitt told me on Twitter was the reason NCST got to host and we didn't. He also claimed that Norwich was not well received in 2010. I don't know if he named names on that. I'd have to go back and look. I don't think Fitt's a jerk, but I don't think he's a "friend to UCONN" like I keep reading here.
 
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DefCONNOne said:
They really haven't, at least not in the 2 years I've followed them. Unless you consider the lukewarm support they get from Fitt and Rogers to mean they get behind UCONN? But it's obvious I'm in the minority on that. As for last year, the "noise" they made about last year's snub was essentially, "We think UCONN should've gotten in, but we have no problem with the field the committee chose.". I don't know about you but that's not the kind of "noise" that screams UCONN got screwed. As far as Rogers's tweets on UCONN are concerned, I haven't checked this morning, but he's not tweeted about UCONN getting screwed. In fact, he's all over the map with that. Points to the RPI as a reason Texas is hosting, but says not a word about RPI when mentioning UCONN getting hosed.
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But he has said that, in the tweet below. What you're looking for is something that you're not going to get from a national writer. NC State over UConn is a mistake (IMO) but not an egregious one. He's not going to come out and blast the committee with 20 tweets like you want because he has to remain impartial

 
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