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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: Today at 12:01:09 PM »
i  think I may have watched my first college baseball game on sunday when we played semo (suck it, KORN).

my first impression is that the field is too small.

They were talking about that on the radio that it's a pretty short porch for the entire field in Arkansas.

320 to left is a bit silly

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: June 03, 2024, 11:51:09 AM »
Elite stuff from Neighbors dad right here.

https://x.com/goodforanother/status/1797442939909722360

My immediate first thought was that he was paying tribute to Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: June 03, 2024, 11:49:40 AM »
I know absolutely nothing about college baseball and the baseball playoff system, but this seems like a big deal for us to make it to the next round.  Am I correct?
yes, v big deal for our ksu booze cats. Second ever super regional for the boys in purple. Two wins away from Omaha.

It's basically making the Sweet 16 in a sport where the deck is stacked against a program like K-State

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: June 02, 2024, 10:21:30 PM »
Pitch against Virginia like we did this weekend and we have a great shot at Omaha

I think they got a great shot

Virginal is one of the best offensive teams in the country- hit for average, hit a ton of Homer's, draw walks, get on base, etc.

But, their pitching isn't great - couple of good (not great) starters and bullpen guys, but pretty thin after that.

If our guys can build off what we did this weekend (especially from a pitching standpoint), we've truly got a 50/50 shot - especially if we get to a third game.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: June 02, 2024, 09:07:41 PM »
Pitch against Virginia like we did this weekend and we have a great shot at Omaha

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: June 02, 2024, 08:20:05 PM »
So we're rooting for Mississippi State to beat UVA tonight and tomorrow night right?  Cause then we bid to host the super over Miss state?  Would imagine would put out as much as it would take to host

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We were one of the last teams in and MSU was a 2 seed (and a traditional baseball power). We're not going to host
I am pretty sure it's only guaranteed for the two national seeds in the super regional.   The others it goes to bid if they're both eliminated.    It's irrelevant. Virginia won.  But I'd imagine the conference and the KSU would put a pretty strong effort in to hosting had it come to thst.

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That's correct (if there's a super regional without a seed then it's a bid situation).

But we weren't going to beat the bid of a team that plays in the largest baseball stadium in the country and routinely plays in front of nearly 20k fans

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: June 02, 2024, 07:57:36 PM »
So we're rooting for Mississippi State to beat UVA tonight and tomorrow night right?  Cause then we bid to host the super over Miss state?  Would imagine would put out as much as it would take to host

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We were one of the last teams in and MSU was a 2 seed (and a traditional baseball power). We're not going to host

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: June 02, 2024, 05:21:13 PM »
We're going with Ruhl... hopefully he can give us at least 3-4 good innings

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: June 02, 2024, 03:33:44 PM »
I imagine this dude's feed will get even better shortly...

https://x.com/OzzyMavX/status/1797115560540713439?t=Ii9uxiZih0h7edbRSshHAA&s=19

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: June 02, 2024, 03:03:35 PM »
What happens from a pitching standpoint is going to be interesting. Our five best pitchers are all probably unavailable today. That likely leaves us with either Ruhl (9.49 ERA) or Wintroub (5.93 ERA) getting the start. Have to give Hughes credit for getting us this far, but using Dean yesterday in the blowout against La Tech was a pretty dumb move (would have been better to use one of our weaker arms to save Dean given the cushion we had).

Regardless, if/when Ruhl or Wintroub get roughed up, we probably go to Slack (4.50 ERA) or Buss (4.26 ERA) and then the other after that. You probably have to save one of Ruhl/Wintroub/Frost to eat up innings tomorrow if we lose. MAYBE Boerma could come back for an inning or two if we play tomorrow.

If we play SEMO, their pitching has been stretched to its limit (and it wasn't great to begin with), so if we play them, hopefully our bats can look more like they did Friday vs. yesterday when we only had 5 hits. SEMO can most definitely hit (former K-State hitting coach Andy Sawyers is their head coach), so we could be looking at a high scoring game unless our pitchers throw the game of their life.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: June 01, 2024, 11:11:49 PM »
Um, we have other pitchers

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We don't really have QUALITY good pitchers left.

SEMO can hit and there's no telling what happens when No. 3 pitchers meet. Our best bet is to hope for a 10-9 type of game tomorrow (preferably with SEMO winning) and then we outslug our way to the supers.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: June 01, 2024, 12:27:35 PM »
We hadn't plated double figures in 2+ months.

Picked a helluva time for the bats to wake up (especially Ingram).

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 31, 2024, 11:48:58 PM »
They have to call it eventually right?  A decided advantage to pig aggie the longer this goes.

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Yeah, it sucks.

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11 am tomorrow...

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 31, 2024, 10:04:04 PM »
Probably won't matter because we'll get smoked tomorrow if we win, but Boerma being unable to throw strikes with a 9-1 lead (6 walks, 1 hbp in 4.1 innings) is pretty disappointing.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 30, 2024, 05:07:45 PM »
the absurdness of attending Kansas State University in Manhattan KS on a rowing scholarship is pretty lol

You could easily make that same argument for more than half of the 80+ NCAA D1 programs that have rowing. Aside from the east/west coast schools (and a few other exceptions), the majority of schools that have rowing choose to do so because it's huge boost to title IX compliance due to roster sizes. And, in addition to that, it's a relatively cheap sport too largely because of minimal travel.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 30, 2024, 01:46:27 PM »
Do we still row?  I thought it went away like the horse stuff.

Yes, it's just about the only way we can be title IX compliant while having the minimum of 14 NCAA sports (with one being football).

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 30, 2024, 09:40:52 AM »
Do they offer the same amount of scholarships as us?  I would imagine that's a big difference.
I always assumed the scholarship situation was regulated by what the NCAA allowed. Obviously all of that is pretty much out the window with NIL now. If that's the case then we just need an alumni that cares fucktons about baseball. BSAC?

11.7 baseball scholarships is the maximum for all schools - that's why big population states have such a huge advantage. They can offer partial scholarships with in-state tuition to high caliber players knowing that out-of-state schools will have to allocate a much larger percentage of a scholarship to make up the difference for out of state students.

There is talk of all NCAA sports becoming fully funded in the "new" NCAA athletics world, which would mean 25-30 scholarships for baseball, more for golf (currently 4.5), more for track/CC (currently 12.6 for men, 18 for women), more for tennis (currently 4.5), etc. Who the hell knows with rowing (currently 20 scholarships - typically each is awarded in 1/2 increments - we have about 40 athletes each year).

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 29, 2024, 01:52:08 PM »
It's very different. We've never had any success in baseball and we're never going to have any sustained success so hoping for Pete to get mumped isn't really the same as it is in football and basketball. We're always going to have the resources resembling a middling AAC program, no matter who our coach is. It's what makes Pete so frustrating is that he's really maximizing recruiting but he's underachieving once he gets the talent here. Just enjoy what we have and hope we can make an unforseen run every few years or so. This is never going to look appreciably better. The only reason why we never Iowa State'd baseball is that we literally can't drop another sport.
Honest question...how did OK State, Nebraska, Michigan, OU, Arkansas, Oregon State, Wichita State, etc. do it? What resources are we lacking?

Taking a shot...

OK State/OU - have good facilities plus decent in-state talent plus proximity to Texas

Nebraska - have great facilities, but really hasn't been an elite program outside of a few runs here and there

Michigan - somebody has to win the Big Ten? Same as Nebraska, not an elite program outside of a few blips

Arkansas - elite facilities (named best college baseball stadium in the country), great fans, proximity to Texas, play in the SEC, etc.

Oregon State - true outlier in that they have all the disadvantages we have and have been elite; most of success achieved under coaches who stayed for a long time

Wichita State - they cared when few programs did (80s/90s) and built (at the time) elite facilities. Since Stephenson was fired in 2013, they haven't done anything of note

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 29, 2024, 08:25:14 AM »
Arguably, we're at a bigger disadvantage in baseball than any other sport - it's not fully funded (11.7 scholarships for rosters of 30+ players), it's a summer sport being played starting in February, we're still in winter when we start playing, we're in a small population state, etc.

Having said all of that, if/when baseball becomes fully funded, that'll help level the playing field.

MIR is 100 percent correct - Hughes is - by far - the best we've ever had when it comes to bringing talent in. But, he's a bad in-game coach and his teams are always incredibly sloppy/fundamentally poor.

It is what it is.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 28, 2024, 12:17:07 PM »
A lot of you owe Pete and apology

I'm going to let Mean Gene's upcoming lifetime extension for Hughes do the talking for me

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Coach Clark towed the line and didn't give me much.  I know he's not the happiest but them making the tourney will make him happy he didn't say more to me.  Gene and CK didn't have a problem having an early bloody.  They spent most of their time with the big donors so didn't get a ton of time with them.  I did however like "sped".  He's damn funny and glad we have him recruiting.  The courses were amazing!

Clark toed the line when one of the biggest dipshit ADs of all-time (Max Urick) forced him to travel 80 gazillion miles during that 1999 season because he couldn't even raise $2.5 million to build a modest baseball stadium.

So, not terribly surprising.

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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 27, 2024, 08:36:57 PM »
TCU was better than us by almost every measure (KPI, RPI, beat us 3 games to 1, etc.). But, they didn't have someone on the committee and we did. We're in and they're out.

Thanks Casey Scott!


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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« on: May 26, 2024, 08:53:22 PM »
Due to bid stealers, Baseball America now has us as the first team out.

Interestingly, their last 3 teams in all have lower RPIs than KSU (44): James Madison (45), Georgia Tech (46) and Indiana (56).

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Just wondering what the 2.7 billion dollar NCAA settlement does to KU's stadium plans?  Many schools are changing or dropping their stadium plans.

KU could actually drop a couple of women's sports and still meet Title IX standards as well as the NCAA mandated minimum of 14 sports to be D1. Obviously, blowback would be significant, but do they really need an underwhelming swimming and/or rowing program?

Of course, who knows if those requirements will still be in place in the future.

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