Four SEC to supers but agree they were extremely disappointing and the Committee gives them every benefit.

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Kelso86 said:

Until they sign the LOI, they are all free agents -- the only thing a "verbal" commitment says is -- here is the school you need to beat.

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Over 80% of our commitments sign their NLOI. It's a small number that are decommits

Kelso86 said:

Until they sign the LOI, they are all free agents -- the only thing a "verbal" commitment says is -- here is the school you need to beat.

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The vast majority of ND verbals never waver.

Kelso86 said:

Until they sign the LOI, they are all free agents -- the only thing a "verbal" commitment says is -- here is the school you need to beat.

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100% correct 👍

Juniper_Run said:

Anything can happen in an individual game. The pattern across dozens of games tells a different story. A single bead dropped in a Galton Board can land anywhere. If the whole distribution goes off center, then something is definitely off.

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The seeding committee has an impossible job. Couch critics sit at home, wait for the games to be played, then shout you are wrong when everything does not go to form.

sjb75 said:

Nothing was off. It's baseball. You're seeded based on regular season performance. Once you get in the playoffs, anything can happen in that sport.

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Anything can happen in an individual game. The pattern across dozens of games tells a different story. A single bead dropped in a Galton Board can land anywhere. If the whole distribution goes off center, then something is definitely off.

Juniper_Run said:

The SEC has indeed been impressive in baseball. They deserve their billing as the top conference. The OP has a valid point, however, that the committee went overboard in giving them all the credit for this tournament.

ACC: 9 total entrants; 3 seeded teams (#5, #9, and #11); 5 teams advance to the super regionals

SEC: 13 total entrants; 8 seeded teams (#1, #2, #3, #4, #6, #7, #10, #14); 4 teams advance to super regionals

Something was definitely off in the committee's overall evaluation of these two conferences.

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Nothing was off. It's baseball. You're seeded based on regular season performance. Once you get in the playoffs, anything can happen in that sport.

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The SEC has indeed been impressive in baseball. They deserve their billing as the top conference. The OP has a valid point, however, that the committee went overboard in giving them all the credit for this tournament.

ACC: 9 total entrants; 3 seeded teams (#5, #9, and #11); 5 teams advance to the super regionals

SEC: 13 total entrants; 8 seeded teams (#1, #2, #3, #4, #6, #7, #10, #14); 4 teams advance to super regionals

Something was definitely off in the committee's overall evaluation of these two conferences.

wi_hoosier said:

Totally get that they have had the top team, but that doesn't mean they are 13 teams deep because they play each other. Last year, That was the principal objective for my OP. Also, Evansville took Tennessee to the very brink last year.

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Yeah. OK.

sjb75 said:

Tennessee, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, and Vanderbilt have won the last 5 CBB titles.

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Totally get that they have had the top team, but that doesn't mean they are 13 teams deep because they play each other. That was the principal objective for my OP. Also, Last year Evansville took Tennessee to the very brink, before they were able to win it all.

Agreed. It was a fascinating article. It was interesting to learn what the head coach sees when he watches film vs. what the average fan sees--or more accurately, perhaps, doesn't see. For those who aren't subscribers to The Athletic, here was but one interesting gem:

"Nothing is too small, a point Freeman makes by pulling up a made extra point at Texas A&M. You see Mitch Jeter’s kick. He sees left guard Pat Coogan getting too high at the line of scrimmage. Freeman saw it later in the game too on a made field goal. And he saw it on the opening extra point at Northern Illinois. Did anyone else? Probably not, at least not until Northern Illinois blocked Jeter’s 48-yard field goal just before halftime."

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NDblitz said:

If they were smart, Stanford and CAL would rejoin. Add in St Marys, Pepperdine and LMU for non football and you have a decent conference. Better than multiple trips to the Atlantic.

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I agree but it's not bloody likely.

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echowaker said:

I've always hated early commitments. I wish there was some sort of truly enforceable rule that prohibited them until the fall of a kids senior season. I don't believe offers should be allowed until the spring of a players junior year either. Way too much pressure on these young people.

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wi_hoosier said:

I still fully believe we are heading toward a two conference of 48 teams set-up.

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48 + 1 Independent 😝