The road to Omaha

Ole Miss and UVa played last year in a Super Regional.
With Eli having looked hard at enrolling for UVa football back around 2000, and both schools having fine law programs, it's a bit of a rivalry.
Rebs are trying to get back to Omaha, after two long-ago trips.

 

They could very well do that. But you can't look at their resumes and tell me Coastal had a better season and deserves a higher seed.

 

You are right on the resume but I think Coastal goes deeper because of Meo and Wheeler.

 

1955! (clap), clap, clap-clap-clap)

Rinse and repeat.

 

I'm sure you've heard this one, blitz, but you do know what Omaha stands for don't you? Ole Miss At Home Again. Which they will be again this year, because after Pomeranz, they have almost no pitching.

 

First time since 1989 that LSU has made the tournament and not hosted a regional. Not that they deserved to with the way they finished the regular season, but I'm still surprised the NCAA didn't give them one based on how well they draw. An LSU regional game will draw 9,000 people. The UConn Regional, with two teams traveling across the country, might get half of that for the entire weekend.

 

About 55 years worth of what-ifs for the ACC in Omaha.

 

And there isn't a dead spot in that lineup. All nine guys can beat you. That is one filthy team.

 

Ole Miss doesn't hit the ball very well, either.

 

Actually, j_m, I like Southern's chances to get out of Auburn a lot better than I do the Confeds' chances of getting out of Charlottesville. USM has two very good starters (although the quality drops off the table after that) an excellent closer and they've been hitting the ball much better over the second half of the season.

 

Yes, albert, I've heard that about O-M-A-H-A.

As a Mississippian, I'd love to see Southern make a 2nd straight trip to Omaha, or Ole Miss just to make it back there in Rosenblatt's final year.
Dear old Mississippi State's has lost the recruiting wars to both of those schools in the past few years, especially to Mike Bianco's Rebel program.
You have to figure that with his coaching ability, and the repeated Super Regional appearances, they will stage a Bum Phillips-type outburst at the Omaha door and "kick the damn thing in" sooner or later.

 

Shocker!