BB: USAC: USA South Athletic Conference

[BigPoppa]

Hokieone, welcome aboard!

I will move this board over to the USA South board.

Narch does a very good job over there with keeping us informed.

Olinemom (a Bridgewater English Professor and brownie baker), CNU85 and hasanova are other veterans of the board.

We appreciate any game reports, hyperlinks, in-game updates, etc.

Another bit of advice is to never mess with Ralph. He is the ruler of this land, not just this region.

[Ralph Turner]

Hokieone, welcome aboard!

I will move this board over to the USA South board.

Narch does a very good job over there with keeping us informed.

Olinemom (a Bridgewater English Professor and brownie baker), CNU85 and hasanova are other veterans of the board.

We appreciate any game reports, hyperlinks, in-game updates, etc.

Another bit of advice is to never mess with Ralph. He is the ruler of this land, not just this region.

Just trying the keep the boards focused!  Narch did a great job last year, moving the USASouth board!

It is good to "read" you again.

McMurry has Chapman in Abilene in February for 3 and Marietta comes in March, again.

Have you seen any other good schedules?

[BigPoppa]

Chapman is loaded again. Many of my former club team players are now playing at Chapman. The games at McMurry should be a great matchup. How does McMurry look this year, Ralph?

[Ralph Turner]

Chapman is loaded again. Many of my former club team players are now playing at Chapman. The games at McMurry should be a great matchup. How does McMurry look this year, Ralph?

McMurry only has to replace (1) the Catcher,  (2) the RF/#2 Pitcher (who actually became the ace when the #1 failed.  He also led the NCAA D3 in doubles last season.),  (3) the 2B, and (4) the SS/ ace reliever.

Coach Driggers always finds talent!

[Bearkat00]

Just trying to give a plug to ASC baseball, which seems to always produce some top notch teams in the nation -
Mississippi College has a pretty strong schedule for the upcoming year. 
UT-Dallas will play in the McM tournament this year
TLU will be playing a strong schedule as well.....
What is the likely hood of getting two teams into the tournament this year?  Do many conferences get two teams in?

[BigPoppa]

What is the likely hood of getting two teams into the tournament this year?  Do many conferences get two teams in?

The stronger conferences traditionally get two teams in the NCAAs... sometimes even three as in the case of the NJAC. It depends on the situation and the strength of the other teams in the region... also if a natioanl power gets upset in a conference tourney by a team that would not normally earn a bid, often the national power will be included as well, giving that conference a second team in addition the upset automatic berth.

[Bearkat00]

Hasn't the ASC had some top rate teams in the past, McMurry, UT-Dallas, Texas Lutheran and Mississippi College?  I know they've matched up well with other teams in region, I just don't understand why we only get our conference winner in the tourney. 

[BigPoppa]

Hasn't the ASC had some top rate teams in the past, McMurry, UT-Dallas, Texas Lutheran and Mississippi College?  I know they've matched up well with other teams in region, I just don't understand why we only get our conference winner in the tourney. 

I know it is cliche, but their is certainly an East Coast bias in the selcetions process. I have always thought it odd that the South and West get shafted in the at-large bid process. I am sure it has to do with the greater numbers of D3 schools in the East/Midwest and fewer in the South/West.

Hopefully, this site can open the eyes of the committee to include some deserving teams that are not seen by other regions.

[Bearkat00]

Ha-well I appreciate your honesty  .  From my understanding, there is supposedly a D3 Baseball site going up here in the near future.  Hopefully that would help.  I really think we have some quality baseball down here who could do well in the tourney - see TLU and McMurry the last few years. 

[Ralph Turner]

Just trying to give a plug to ASC baseball, which seems to always produce some top notch teams in the nation -
Mississippi College has a pretty strong schedule for the upcoming year. 
UT-Dallas will play in the McM tournament this year
TLU will be playing a strong schedule as well.....
What is the likely hood of getting two teams into the tournament this year?  Do many conferences get two teams in?

Bearkat, the Baseball Handbook will tell us how many Pool C bids ("at-large") are available when it is released.  We will keep you informed of its arrival.   

[narch]

on the scheduling note, here is the monarchs...highlights include early games against lagrange and emory, as well as the usual odac matchups (vwc, lynchburg, hsc, guilford...ehc has been added) as well as rhodes, piedmont, huntingdon, tufts, york and salisbury...looks like a pretty solid ooc schedule - note that the usasac has scrapped the 3 game weekends allowing more ooc games - let's see if all my moaning the last few years had any merit

[Ralph Turner]

Narch, what is the thinking in the USAC concerning the early date for the Conference tourney?  That is five weeks before the Regionals!
The ASC finals are 3 weeks later!

[Jim Dixon]

Narch, what is the thinking in the USAC concerning the early date for the Conference tourney?  That is five weeks before the Regionals!
The ASC finals are 3 weeks later!

USAC alwyas has their conference championship early.  The tourney winner is always the first to punch their ticket to the playoffs.  I did not look at the schedule but expect the conference tournament to be last weeknd in April.  The earlies conferenc tourney is the UAA.  They pay in March down in Florida.  I've see some of those games when  lived just south of the Cocoa Expo.

[narch]

ralph - not sure if this is the thinking, but it's a side benefit...

note how the mu schedule is back-loaded with regional games vs. solid regional competetion...if the monarchs were to stumble in the conference tourney, they still have a number of strong regional games for the committee to evaluate

[Jim Dixon]

ralph - not sure if this is the thinking, but it's a side benefit...

note how the mu schedule is back-loaded with regional games vs. solid regional competetion...if the monarchs were to stumble in the conference tourney, they still have a number of strong regional games for the committee to evaluate

Most will say the more you play, the better you get.  it is just unusual that the conference tournament is not at the end of the season for the USAC schools when everyone has a chnace to get their team moving in the right direction.

I would think that few schools are looking for games at the end of their season since this is where conference games are played.  But I can see a team wanting to take a break from their conference schedule to play a team from the USAC, hopefully adding to their chances for a post season berth.