Sprints Thinks It Can Win Five National Titles Over the Next Four Years // 02.09.10
by cocknfire on Feb 9, 2010 1:22 AM EST
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It appears that those of you who were concerned about Florida recruits in the wake of George Edwards' oddly timed decisions to leave Gainesville need not be concerned anymore.
Edwards' 27-day tenure ended Thursday, the day after National Signing Day.
Miami Booker T. Washington DE Lynden Trail, who met Edwards once, said he's talked to numerous recruits in recent days and nobody has mentioned Edwards.
"He didn't seem to fit the mold of a Gators coach," Trail said. "I'm sure he's a great guy, great family guy, but he didn't have the intensity of every other Gators coach when he got here. It doesn't change anything for me. We're all ready to come play anyway."
Why should they be worried? After all, they're so good -- Well, how good are you, Mr. Trail?
"I know we'll bring at least 2-3 national championships," said Trail about the 2010 signing class that ranked atop most recruiting services. "I just feel like we have so much special talent at every position."
And so much modesty, too.
SB Nation Bracketology has five SEC teams
Kentucky makes it as No. 1 seed, with Tennessee (4), Vanderbilt (6), Ole Miss (8) and Florida (10). Mississippi State is the fifth team out, which means it would make it in the new, 483-team field planned for 2010-11. YAY MINDLESS EXPANSION!!!
And you thought Yankees-Red Sox was on all the time ...
Really, all college baseball fans should be thrilled that the SEC's televised schedule of aluminium-aided games has gone from six to 46. [PDF here] So this complaint might seem a little bit minor, but -- LSU much?
| Team | Games |
| LSU | 16 |
| Ole Miss | 13 |
| Florida | 11 |
| Alabama | 8 |
| Georgia | 8 |
| Vanderbilt | 8 |
| Tennessee | 7 |
| Mississippi State | 6 |
| Auburn | 5 |
| South Carolina | 4 |
| Arkansas | 4 |
| Kentucky | 2 |
Sure, LSU is the defending national championship and preseason No. 3 in Baseball America, so the Tigers are going to get more coverage than anyone else. But appearing in more than a third of the televised games? All of this while preseason No. 10 South Carolina and preseason No. 17 Arkansas get four games each, while unranked Alabama and Vanderbilt each have eight? And, granted, Kentucky's usually not very good. But two games scheduled to be televised? Out of 46?
Pespi and brandy?
File this under "National Signing Day, ways not to celebrate."
Police said [South Carolina recruit Victor] Hampton, rated a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, took a small quantity of liquor to school on Friday morning, two days after signing with the Gamecocks.
Darlington principal Pearl Jeffords smelled alcohol on Hampton and found a water bottle in his book bag containing a brown liquid Hampton identified as brandy and Pepsi, according to the incident report.
He couldn't even try to pass it off as Pepsi? And who uses Pepsi as a mixer to begin with?
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Uh Duh
Rum n Coke, but pepsi branded coke not coca cola.
Any how who puts a brown liquid in a water bottle? Come on use Vodka and tonic or just plain vodka! Or as I think your implying is use a pepsi bottle atleast. I was never this dumb in HS and I did some dumb stuff.
"When you argue correctly, you're never wrong."-Nick Naylor
LSU cares more - we get on TV
LSU is not just the premier baseball program by wins, it has a higher level of interest. Check out the home attendance from last season:
Team *Home Dates Total Avg.
LSU 22 206,598 9,390
Arkansas 18 136,386 7,577
South Carolina 20 131,591 6,579
Ole Miss 19 118,411 6,232
Mississippi State 15 82,456 5,497
Alabama 16 61,681 3,855
Florida 20 59,905 2,995
Georgia 19 54,328 2,859
Vanderbilt 18 41,283 2,293
Auburn 19 41,938 2,207
Kentucky 18 29,158 1,619
Tennessee 20 24,825 1,241
TOTALS 224 988,560 4,413
LSU is ahead in attendance by quite a large margin. So the baseball team gets a whopping three extra games. TV networks aren’t charities, they are putting on the games they think people will watch. Florida is actually the team over-represented based on the best indicator of fan interest: attendance. They get 11 games, a quarter of the schedule, despite finishing in the bottom half of the conference in attendance.
South Carolina and Arkansas, OTOH, are severely underrepresented. Usually a good team and really good fan support, yet they only merit 4 games? Arkansas’ even coming off a CWS appearance. More Hog games!
Fake Pundit. Real Fan.
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Again, understand LSU getting more games than anyone else
But as you point out, Arkansas and South Carolina are good teams with high levels of fan interest. (At South Carolina, it’s about all we’re any good at.)
Team Speed Kills. All SEC, all the time.
Yes, but...
… the team that is on TV too much isn’t LSU, who makes up 1/5 of SEC attendance and 1/4 of the TV games, not that awful of ratio, but programs like Florida and Tennessee, who have poor attendence yet more games than USC and Arkansas. Arkansas, especially, is getting hosed given their high attendance and CWS bid last season.
Why does UGa and Vandy each get 8 games despite having half the attendance of USC or Arkansas? Half the attendance, yet twice the TV games? LSU ain’t the team that’s robbing the Cocks of exposure. LSU at least earned the most games by winning the CWS and showing up in droves to watch college baseball.
Fake Pundit. Real Fan.
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If I wanted to complain about underrepresented South Carolina
I’d probably go ahead and hit up that “Ole Miss with 13 televised games” meme. It looks to be a serious rebuilding year for the Rebels, but we still have only three fewer than LSU.
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Arkansas
Arkansas had a pretty solid team last year. I’d like to see them on tv a bit more, but televising LSU the most is a no brainer. We pay more attention to college baseball than the rest of the SEC.
I assure you
We at South Carolina pay a good amount of attention to baseball. I can’t talk about it in comparison to LSU, but fan interest is high.
Team Speed Kills. All SEC, all the time.
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