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Message: [QUOTE="RitzLuce1, post: 5286803, member: 13964"] My 3 thoughts: 1. If our entire identity is "Northeast grit" and woe is us that we have an impossible situation being a northeast team so we will out grind you with lesser heralded players, you cannot allow 3 northeast schools (Northeastern, BC, Rutgers) come into your home field and smack you around. That goes against the DNA in which you built the program on. Many of those teams had better players than we did at key positions. Some were tougher than we are. We cannot afford to let that happen coming off 2 super regional appearances and a brand new stadium/facilities. We need to upgrade the talent especially the pitching if we want to avoid what happened this year. The pitching is simply not of quality depth and rarely is. Even our tournament teams have gotten embarrassed from a pitching standpoint (28 runs in 1 NCAA game to Notre Dame, 24 runs in game 1 vs FSU last year). We got off to a meandering and lackluster start. 0-3 in Puerto Rico against OK competition. Gave up a zillion runs to Florida Atlantic. Gave away 2 games vs Campbell. Got blown out vs BC and Northeastern during the week. Put us in an impossible hole. The only answer is to improve the talent in pitching. It's simply not strong or deep enough. I don't know if they have the NIL to compete for better arms. 2. We deserved to be in over Miami, Kentucky, and Oklahoma St. We didn't get in because we have 2 super conferences, 2 conferences afraid to upset those super conferences, and everyone else afraid to upset the "power" 4 conferences. That includes UConn BTW. Not to mention regional bias especially in a sport like baseball. 3. No one appears to be willing to challenge or call out this cycle so it's hard to even get upset anymore when teams get screwed over. Instead we will have to live through the WOW THE SEC SENT 14 TEAMS THE THE TOURNAMENT tweets for _____ sport. This is the future people seem content with so it's what we will get. [/QUOTE]

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