2015 College Baseball Tournament

PaulinMyrBch · May 26, 2015

Bracket

Maryland, South Florida, Oregon and Clemson were the last four in
UNC, Missouri, Michigan State and Southern Miss were the first four out

In that order, Clemson was 64, UNC was 65.

Pretty good breakdown of the selections

LogansDad · May 30, 2015

Texas A&M and Cal in the top of the 14th inning. One of the A&M kids is wearing a Cheez-It box for a rally cap.

Detts · May 31, 2015

Indiana decided to pitch to Dansby Swanson bottom 9 of a tied game with first base open.

2 run walk off. Imagine that.

jon abbey · Jun 1, 2015

Columbia has won three games including beating Miami on their home field tonight (Alex Rodriguez Field, no joke) where they were previously 33-4 this season. They play again tomorrow to decide the region winner, but as it is, Columbia is the first Ivy League team to win three games since Harvard in 1974.

jon abbey · Jun 1, 2015

Miami over Columbia in a squeaker right now, 20-3 in the 6th.

Still better than Radford did today, they lost 21-0 to Vandy.

PaulinMyrBch · Jun 2, 2015

jon abbey said:
Miami over Columbia in a squeaker right now, 20-3 in the 6th.

Still better than Radford did today, they lost 21-0 to Vandy.

Running out of pitching kills you at every level.

loshjott · Jun 4, 2015

Maryland and UVA both won their regionals in Southern California then shared an "awkward" charter flight back to the east coast before facing each other in the super regionals coming up.

PaulinMyrBch · Jun 4, 2015

Jack Leggett out at Clemson

Names being thrown out as possible replacements include, Florida's Kevin O’Sullivan, TCU’s Jim Schlossnagle, College of Charleston’s Monte Lee and West Virginia’s Randy Mazey.

PaulinMyrBch · Jun 4, 2015

loshjott said:
Maryland and UVA both won their regionals in Southern California then shared an "awkward" charter flight back to the east coast before facing each other in the super regionals coming up.

That Virginia coach sounds like a dick. Sharing a charter with another team and flying back from the west coast is a "student welfare" issue? He does realize school is out right? You don't like travel delays? Win enough games to host the regional.

DJnVa · Jun 4, 2015

PaulinMyrBch said:
That Virginia coach sounds like a dick. Sharing a charter with another team and flying back from the west coast is a "student welfare" issue? He does realize school is out right?

He's not talking about sharing, he's talking about getting back to school at 4:30 in the morning. The flight was delayed 6.5 hours.

And many college athletes take summer classes to lighten the load during their season. School isn't necessarily out.

PaulinMyrBch · Jun 4, 2015

DrewDawg said:
He's not talking about sharing, he's talking about getting back to school at 4:30 in the morning. The flight was delayed 6.5 hours.

And many college athletes take summer classes to lighten the load during their season. School isn't necessarily out.

I doubt any of those kids are signed up for Summer1 during regional, supers, and Omaha, but I guess its possible. But if they aren't he sure is using the term "student" conveniently.

DJnVa · Jun 4, 2015

PaulinMyrBch said:
I doubt any of those kids are signed up for Summer1 during regional, supers, and Omaha, but I guess its possible. But if they aren't he sure is using the term "student" conveniently.

But again, he's complaining about getting back at 4:30 in the morning. That's not ideal. Not sure why complaining about that makes him a dick.

PaulinMyrBch · Jun 4, 2015

DrewDawg said:
But again, he's complaining about getting back at 4:30 in the morning. That's not ideal. Not sure why complaining about that makes him a dick.

I understand he's talking about the delays and arrival time. But its not like the stuff Bobby Knight used to complain about when Big Monday had the Big Ten game starting late and by design, the kids wouldn't get back to the dorm until 2-3 in the AM if you were the road team. We're talking about a travel delay and a flight from California to Dulles. It's not as if the NCAA was sticking it to UVA. There wasn't a regional north of Florida and east of Louisville. All the ACC 3 seeds played in California.

He's pissed. I get it. But he doesn't have to use "welfare of student-athletes" to make his point.

DJnVa · Jun 4, 2015

Okay...I think we're coming at it from different places. I think he used that term because it's the term the NCAA uses all the time. He was tweaking them.

PaulinMyrBch · Jun 4, 2015

Back to baseball, word is Clemson already has a YES from a coach for the job, which would probably rule out O'Sullivan, Schlossnagle, or any one else still playing.

Hoping its Monte Lee.

PaulinMyrBch · Jun 4, 2015

They kept LaCroy on for the transition. But can't blame a kid for opening things up. I'm assuming he's a rising senior and not a fall enrollee?

There is going to be fallout for sure. Jack is an HOF coach and the coaching tree, players, and recruits are loyal. Most of the HC's in the coaching tree are saying they are loyal to Jack and won't work for the AD that fired him. But its Clemson, they're spending a ton of money on facilities and its a big job. Interesting to see how this plays out.

PaulinMyrBch · Jun 8, 2015

Looking like a strong group for Omaha. With nothing but Regional 1 seeds left to fight it out today, we're going to have 6 1 seeds, a 2, and a 3 advancing.

DeJesus Built My Hotrod · Jun 8, 2015

And Louisville goes,down to CS Fullerton in extras

jon abbey · Jun 8, 2015

It's got to be strange to have the NCAAs and the draft overlap like they do, kids are going for a title at the same time some of their futures are being decided. Slightly odd timing, why don't they have the draft right after the NCAAs end, or even on an off day for the tournament?

swiftaw · Jun 9, 2015

TCU and TAMU tied at 4 in the 14th, TCU have based loaded with one outs in bottom of inning.

Edit: A force out at home and a groundout to 2nd ends the inning - on to the 15th.

cgori · Jun 9, 2015

This TCU/TAMU game is amazing.

jon abbey · Jun 9, 2015

Yeah, that "force out at home" in the 14th above was a rocket off the pitcher's chest that caromed to the 1B who threw the runner out at home (who had to hold because it was a line drive).

Then in the 15th, TCU tried a hit and run with a 2-1 count, but somehow A&M pitched out and threw the runner out easily.

Now they're in the 16th, the longest game ever in this round was 17 innings.

jon abbey · Jun 9, 2015

Oh man, runner on second, two outs, sharp grounder that the 3B can't play and slightly bobbles, but for some reason the runner keeps going, right through the stop sign. The throw beats him home by 15 feet, but the catcher lets it get by him, game over, TCU wins.

garlan5 · Jun 9, 2015

RedOctober3829 said:
And the 3 seed is a team who was top 5 pre-season before Joe McCarthy and Nathan Kirby got hurt. I wonder if Kirby will be healthy enough to play in Omaha as there was a chance he'd be back for Regionals.

Kirby should be back for Omaha

PaulinMyrBch · Jun 14, 2015

And we're off. I was tied up Fri/Sat playing some golf, but did catch the big Florida inning. Offense is back apparently. 3 total home runs each of the last two years, and in the opening game we had 2, including this BennyBomb below.

UVA over Arkansas, 5-3
Florida over Miami, 15-3

Winners pair up. Loser play elimination game. Bottom of the bracket starts today.

For those interested the buzz is that Clemson has hired College of Chaleston's Monte Lee, who is bringing highly regarded pitching coach Matt Heath with him. Heath was probably leaving Charleston anyway as he had SEC offers this offseason. Supposedly its a done deal, pending backround checks and contract details, and an announcement is likely coming Tuesday.

https://twitter.com/NCAACWS/status/609825157843017728

PaulinMyrBch · Jun 15, 2015

Interesting day. Walkoff homerun by Vandy. Walkoff single by Miami, courtesy of Jason Heyward's little bro.

Good news is Benintendi now has some free time.

smokin joe wood · Jun 15, 2015

PaulinMyrBch said:
For those interested the buzz is that Clemson has hired College of Chaleston's Monte Lee, who is bringing highly regarded pitching coach Matt Heath with him. Heath was probably leaving Charleston anyway as he had SEC offers this offseason. Supposedly its a done deal, pending backround checks and contract details, and an announcement is likely coming Tuesday.

Lee couldn't have liked the move to the CAA. I had heard he was looking to get out. That would be a good hire for Clemson.

PaulinMyrBch · Jun 16, 2015

I've heard Monte Lee is at Clemson again today for a third interview/meeting. If he's up there, my guess is its details. I've heard from someone connected to CoC he's gone and that was at 5:30 on Saturday. Waiting for real news.

https://twitter.com/KendallRogersD1/status/610825283373940737

PaulinMyrBch · Jun 17, 2015

The internet and twitter are worthless in these hiring situations. I've heard it all from done deal to no offer has been made. Waiting on official word from either Clemson or Monte.

I do have a close connection to a CoC recruit and he is not happy, but I don't know if he's spoken to Monte or just seeing what we're seeing on the internet.

PaulinMyrBch · Jun 17, 2015

It's official apparently as newspapers in both towns are reporting. Monte Lee to Clemson.

PaulinMyrBch · Jun 18, 2015

RedOctober3829 said:
Wow look at this quote from Rob Manfred on college baseball.

Wow is right. Here is the link to the full article.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/sports/baseball/rob-manfred-using-commissioners-role-to-expand-baseball-in-various-forms.html?referrer=

Posted that from phone so not sure if the link will be live.

canderson · Jun 19, 2015

TCU beat LSU. Huzzah!

And those comments by Manfred are wild.

DJnVa · Jun 19, 2015

UVA pitcher Nathan Kirby, who hasn't pitched since April, will start Friday against Florida. A win sends UVA to the finals.

http://www.ncaa.com/news/baseball/cws/2015-06-18/nathan-kirby-make-return-mound-hoos-win-away-cws-finals

PaulinMyrBch · Jun 20, 2015

Florida v. UVA in the true bracket final tonight at 8pm, winner gets Vandy starting on Monday.

DeJesus Built My Hotrod · Jun 20, 2015

This game is great. Nobody is watching though...

Lose Remerswaal · Jun 22, 2015

Go Vandy!

DeJesus Built My Hotrod · Jun 22, 2015

Fulmer is flith

DeJesus Built My Hotrod · Jun 23, 2015

Nobody is watching but this is a great match-up (again). Haseley is giving Virgina a fantastic outing keeping them in this game.

DeJesus Built My Hotrod · Jun 23, 2015

Huge AB for Clement. This game is great. And nobody is watching...

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