Navin R. Johnson Posted May 31, 2021 Report Posted May 31, 2021 Remember when Nebraska won 22 games and we were hoping to sneak in to the tournament only to see us get a terrible seed in the NIT? Check out the NCAA baseball tournament. Huskers in Arkansas' regional, are you kidding me! That makes us the lowest seeded two seed. BjoeHusker, Bugeaters1, throwback and 5 others 3 1 4 Quote
Huskerpapa Posted May 31, 2021 Report Posted May 31, 2021 Yup...but to be the best ya gotta beat the best. I'm betting the team is relishing the opportunity. Quote
HuskerFever Posted May 31, 2021 Report Posted May 31, 2021 2 hours ago, Huskerpapa said: I'm betting the team is relishing the opportunity. Red Rum and hhcmatt 2 Quote
Fastbreaker Posted May 31, 2021 Report Posted May 31, 2021 Yes but think of the storyline for the talking heads. The greatest coach ever at Nebraska, who now has the number one team at Arkansas against a Nebraska team that is coached by one of his best players back at Nebraska. And Nebraska plays the game like Van Horn taught Bolt. tcp 1 Quote
Navin R. Johnson Posted May 31, 2021 Author Report Posted May 31, 2021 13 minutes ago, Fastbreaker said: Yes but think of the storyline for the talking heads. The greatest coach ever at Nebraska, who now has the number one team at Arkansas against a Nebraska team that is coached by one of his best players back at Nebraska. And Nebraska plays the game like Van Horn taught Bolt. True, but that would play out even better in the CWS. Now it can't. Bugeaters1 1 Quote
Fastbreaker Posted June 1, 2021 Report Posted June 1, 2021 Sorry Nebraska is nowhere near CWS good. Maybe in a couple of years. tcp 1 Quote
HuskerFever Posted June 1, 2021 Report Posted June 1, 2021 29 minutes ago, Fastbreaker said: Sorry Nebraska is nowhere near CWS good. Maybe in a couple of years. I believe the argument was that we had a solid team to get to Super Regionals and fizzle out. But the way they've seeded us puts the probability of fizzling out in regionals much higher than it should have been. Not CWS or bust. Quote
busticket Posted June 1, 2021 Report Posted June 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Fastbreaker said: Sorry Nebraska is nowhere near CWS good. Maybe in a couple of years. Honestly nobody knows this. We have zero point of reference because we didn’t play out of conference. We are a wildcard. Getting out of the Arkansas regional would be a massive undertaking. Highly unlikely that happens as they are the #1 overall seed. At a minimum we will have a better feel for what we have after seeing us play some of the other top teams from around the country. Swan88 and aphilso1 2 Quote
Swan88 Posted June 1, 2021 Report Posted June 1, 2021 (edited) 22 minutes ago, busticket said: Honestly nobody knows this. We have zero point of reference because we didn’t play out of conference. We are a wildcard. The only comparison reference is this: in the last College World Series played (2019), Michigan played for the championship against Vanderbilt—won the first game, losing the last two. In 2019, we played Michigan in the last weekend of the season—we won the series 2 games to 1, and then played them twice in the B1G Tournament (split those two games). Then, we had 1 win and 2 losses in the regional. Edited June 1, 2021 by Swan88 busticket 1 Quote
Handy Johnson Posted June 1, 2021 Report Posted June 1, 2021 Last time I saw Arkansas in the CWS 3 Hogs dropped a routine pop-up & let the Title slip away. Huskers certainly have a chip a chair & a chance... busticket 1 Quote
tcp Posted June 1, 2021 Report Posted June 1, 2021 everything NU does this year is a gift. no one expected them to do jack. what better motivation than to go into DVHs backyard and pull off an upset? These guys have been underdogs all year. They're good at it. In a perverse way, this is the perfect regional for them. Swan88 and busticket 2 Quote
hskr4life Posted June 1, 2021 Report Posted June 1, 2021 21 hours ago, Fastbreaker said: Sorry Nebraska is nowhere near CWS good. Maybe in a couple of years. How do we know that right now? Really? We don’t because Kevin Warren decided to F everything up. We have the Big 10 coach, player, and freshman of the year. We won 30 games in a conference only season. We have two solid weekend guys and a lineup that can go big as quickly as we could go home. Everything would probably have to be perfect for us to come out of the Arkansas regional this year, no matter the team, but we don’t know know much about our team except that we were the best in the conference by a decently wide margin. Unfortunately, we could be CWS good this year and still not make it out of regionals. That’s why people are pissed. Arkansas fans aren’t too thrilled we were put in their either. aphilso1 and busticket 2 Quote
aphilso1 Posted June 1, 2021 Report Posted June 1, 2021 6 minutes ago, hskr4life said: Arkansas fans aren’t too thrilled we were put in their either. That's a pretty good point. Imagine being the #1 team in the country, and your reward is to draw a team that just ran laps around the B1G. I get that the NCAA is punishing Big Ten teams for not playing OOC, but it is also punishing the other teams in those regionals at the same time. busticket 1 Quote
Norm Peterson Posted June 2, 2021 Report Posted June 2, 2021 19 hours ago, hskr4life said: How do we know that right now? Really? We don’t because Kevin Warren decided to F everything up. How many times will the conference allow the commissioner to F everything up before handing him his walking papers? First the football season; now this. He learned no lessons. The conference suffered as a result. Quote
busticket Posted June 2, 2021 Report Posted June 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Norm Peterson said: How many times will the conference allow the commissioner to F everything up before handing him his walking papers? First the football season; now this. He learned no lessons. The conference suffered as a result. Warren has been a disaster. I just don’t know if the conference has the, ahem, political capital to get rid of him. Quote
Norm Peterson Posted June 2, 2021 Report Posted June 2, 2021 1 hour ago, busticket said: Warren has been a disaster. I just don’t know if the conference has the, ahem, political capital to get rid of him. Maybe we could promote him into a role where he doesn't do anything? Quote
HuskerFever Posted June 2, 2021 Report Posted June 2, 2021 57 minutes ago, Norm Peterson said: Maybe we could promote him into a role where he doesn't do anything? Assistant to the Commissioner Quote
49r Posted June 2, 2021 Report Posted June 2, 2021 20 minutes ago, HuskerFever said: Assistant to the Commissioner Quote
hskr4life Posted June 2, 2021 Report Posted June 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Norm Peterson said: Maybe we could promote him into a role where he doesn't do anything? Kevin Warren: Big 10 Commissioner, Club Sports. Bugeaters1 and throwback 1 1 Quote
throwback Posted June 3, 2021 Report Posted June 3, 2021 Well, they hired Alvarez to keep Warren from having to speak with the football coaches. Maybe when Izzo retires, he can become the buffer between Warren and the hoops coaches. There's only 20 or so sports, so, it may take a while, but I think they can hire Warren buffers for all of them. Then they just need to hire a negotiator to buffer him from having to deal with the upcoming football TV package and they're set. I think this is the safest way to go. Quote
49r Posted June 3, 2021 Report Posted June 3, 2021 34 minutes ago, throwback said: they can hire Warren buffers for all of them I originally read that as "hire Warren Buffets for all of them" and I was like, man, how many are there? Quote
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