BB: Regionals (South) Danville '08, Salisbury '09, Methodist '10, Rhodes '11

[rolln2]

I still wonder what the NCAA is thinking w/ DIII baseball other than convenience usually.  In several regions you have nationally ranked top ten teams playing each other in regionals.  That is what I like more about DI.  They separate the top teams throughout the regions in the hopes of the best teams making it to the championship round.  Unlike DIII where top five teams are playing each other in a regional when they could possibly meet in a championship.  I think this limits the best teams from getting to the finals.

[NoVa Baseball]

Rolln2 - Could not have said it better.  If D3 wants to get a World Series worthy of wider press coverage, they should make the effort to get the best 8 teams there.  If they are flying 3 teams to the South Region, they may as well use the airfare to spread them around the country. 

[Richard of Funchester]

Please tell me if I am wrong about this, but it looks like the South Region games will have live stats and video for the duration of the tournament in Millington.  I clicked on the video feed to see which video player would be used on my computer.  It's going to cost $7.99 a game to watch or $9.99 for the month of watching games.  Does anyone else think this is nuts??  Maybe I am just looking at this wrong.....

[BigPoppa]

Please tell me if I am wrong about this, but it looks like the South Region games will have live stats and video for the duration of the tournament in Millington.  I clicked on the video feed to see which video player would be used on my computer.  It's going to cost $7.99 a game to watch or $9.99 for the month of watching games.  Does anyone else think this is nuts??  Maybe I am just looking at this wrong.....

Welcome to a capitalist society

[CrashDavisD3]

Please tell me if I am wrong about this, but it looks like the South Region games will have live stats and video for the duration of the tournament in Millington.  I clicked on the video feed to see which video player would be used on my computer.  It's going to cost $7.99 a game to watch or $9.99 for the month of watching games.  Does anyone else think this is nuts??  Maybe I am just looking at this wrong.....

Tell me why they should not charge you ?   The equipment and people and services are not free.

[ILVBB]

Crash:

I think you and I are on the same page most of the time. I would dearly pay for a good video cast. However, too often you end up paying for an unmanned camera with audio limited to background noise. When this has happend to me; I go nuts. 

Millington is set up for a good video cast. The press box has very good high-speed internet, a high vantage point and clear site lines. Let's hope they take advantage of it and produce a quality video cast.

[narch]

if the video broadcast is high quality (sound and video quality), it's worth $9.99 for sure ($7.99/game is for suckers...each team will play at least 2 games)...if not, then, well it's not - if you've got a playstation  or some other streaming player or internet enabled tv, you can watch it on the big screen...probably won't be hd quality, though

here are my thoughts on the regional:
cnu - i like their pitching depth and offensive balance...i think they've got the best shot to win in millington

su - i like their experience and they've got a couple of studs who have been on the big stage...i'd rank them 2a

ssu - they had to play their backsides off just to ensure a spot in the tourney, so they're hot - i'd rank them 2b

piedmont - GREAT coaching, solid pitching and an offense that will manufacture runs - i give them an outside shot of winning the regional

rmc and wabash - each is likely to be 2 and done

[Richard of Funchester]

Crash:

I think you and I are on the same page most of the time. I would dearly pay for a good video cast. However, too often you end up paying for an unmanned camera with audio limited to background noise. When this has happend to me; I go nuts. 

Millington is set up for a good video cast. The press box has very good high-speed internet, a high vantage point and clear site lines. Let's hope they take advantage of it and produce a quality video cast.

The CNU/SU weekend set earlier this year had both games on live video.  There were 3 cameras each manned + live audio broadcast.  At the USA South tournament had 1 camera manned with live audio and nothing was charged.  I was just taken back to see what it was going to cost for us to watch the games.  If the quality of the video and audio is good then it will be well worth it. 

To me CNU has to be the favorite by far.  SU has been on this stage twice now, but I am not sure if they have the horses at every position to beat CNU.  Right not SSU is playing good enough to get in the dance and I would not put it passed them to make a run at this,  looks like Piedmont could be the sleeper for the USA South teams.....Should be good baseball for 4 days, looks like the weather will cooperate....

[Hound Dog]

if the video broadcast is high quality (sound and video quality), it's worth $9.99 for sure ($7.99/game is for suckers...each team will play at least 2 games)...if not, then, well it's not - if you've got a playstation  or some other streaming player or internet enabled tv, you can watch it on the big screen...probably won't be hd quality, though

here are my thoughts on the regional:
cnu - i like their pitching depth and offensive balance...i think they've got the best shot to win in millington

su - i like their experience and they've got a couple of studs who have been on the big stage...i'd rank them 2a

ssu - they had to play their backsides off just to ensure a spot in the tourney, so they're hot - i'd rank them 2b

piedmont - GREAT coaching, solid pitching and an offense that will manufacture runs - i give them an outside shot of winning the regional

rmc and wabash - each is likely to be 2 and done

Who is RMC?  I believe Webster is the only team not mentioned here.  If you meant to put Webster, then your prediction would be impossible because Wabash and Webster will play each other if they both lose their openers.

[Pauperboy]

   You'll have to forgive Narch. Unless it deals with numbers, percentages, isn't highlighted or color coded he has some difficulty comprehending it.

[Back2Back!!]

Please tell me if I am wrong about this, but it looks like the South Region games will have live stats and video for the duration of the tournament in Millington.  I clicked on the video feed to see which video player would be used on my computer.  It's going to cost $7.99 a game to watch or $9.99 for the month of watching games.  Does anyone else think this is nuts??  Maybe I am just looking at this wrong.....

Tell me why they should not charge you ?   The equipment and people and services are not free.

I think that it is ridiculous that they are charging people to watch a Division 3 Regional unless the Video is legitimate which if its anything like any other games I have watched it isnt.  And for them to charge 7.99 a game
? or 9.99 a month? Come on. Nobody is going to use this for a month. You will watch it for the 3 to 4 days that this tournament goes on. I think they have taken into consideration that this years tourny is far away for 4 of the teams and assume that fans wont be able to make the trip so they are taking advantage of us. Who gets the money? I havent looked at it yet

[narch]

Who is RMC?  I believe Webster is the only team not mentioned here.  If you meant to put Webster, then your prediction would be impossible because Wabash and Webster will play each other if they both lose their openers.

rmc is randolph macon college, a south region team from the odac which many have talked about being in this region for the last few weeks...obviously, they aren't in this regional, though thanks for keeping me straight - i meant webster, but hadn't looked at the second round match-ups yet to see that regardless of who the 5 and 6 seeds are, they won't be done in 2 games - either way, i don't think that either of these teams will be around long and i don't think either will present much of a challenge to win this regional tournament

You'll have to forgive Narch. Unless it deals with numbers, percentages, isn't highlighted or color coded he has some difficulty comprehending it.

pauperboy - it seems to me that this is a bit personal to you - i'm sure you're the dad of a senior player at rhodes who desperately wants to see his boy to play another game, but if you really think that my color coded charts have anything to do with a 24-20 team being left out of the ncaa tournament...let's just say that the apple fell a long way from the tree

[forheavendial4999]

Webster appears to have a very solid ace. Wabash appears to um...not.

[BigPoppa]

Webster appears to have a very solid ace. Wabash appears to um...not.

Webster could be a little sneaky in this region... and maybe do alittle damage to some teams in the process, but I do not see them getting through it.

[vabaseball]

Live video is going to be free for the tournament.

"NCAA tournament games are free to view. Simply register, then watch."

http://www.collegetvticket.com/