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Message: [QUOTE="kingdobbs, post: 4277756, member: 1655"] For a point of comparison, UConn was able to host a regional in 2010 (at Dodd Stadium; if we were to try and bid again, Dodd or Dunkin will undoubtedly be the location we try to use; I don’t think we could meet the financial guarantee in Storrs) with a 47-14 record, hosting the regional Florida State would have had. The following side note is useful to establish: the bid process for regionals and super-regionals is [B]mostly, [/B][I]mostly, [/I]meritocratic. Because baseball is one of the few sports where tournament play is revenue-producing, the selection process incorporates a bid element. Ordinarily your national seeds (those 1-8 in the normal RPI) are guaranteed a regional hosting spot and will host a super regional should they advance that far, and the remaining number ones are “guaranteed” a regional host. It is however possible, as UConn did in 2010, to bid one’s way in. Generally speaking, though, you still have to be a high performing team to supplant what would otherwise be a top contender (Florida State in 2010 was an 18 RPI team and UConn was 26; the NCAA decided that was a fair swap to get more regional flavor in what is usually a decidedly Southern and Western affair; the Seminoles ended up earning a super regional hosting bid by winning in Norwich, and also from Louisville the national seed from that bracket set losing in their own regional; had UConn won, they would have been up for a bid against Vanderbilt from the other bracket and probably would have lost). [/QUOTE]

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