College baseball 2022 running thread

[tapintoamerica]

The SEC has now won eight of the last 13 national championships, and three in a row, with six different schools combining for those eight titles. The run started in 2009, and if you go back another year Georgia was in the finals.
That's a league with some depth.

Six unique schools from the same conference winning the same sport in 13 years has got to be a record.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Six unique schools from the same conference winning the same sport in 13 years has got to be a record.

Ties the WCHA, from what I found. From 1960-73, Denver, Michigan Tech, North Dakota, Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin all won NCAA men's hockey championships. Minnesota won in 1974 to make it 7 in 14 years.

 

[Batman]

Six unique schools from the same conference winning the same sport in 13 years has got to be a record.

If you extend it to 14 years, you had two other teams make it to Game 3 of the finals (Georgia in 2008 and Arkansas in 2018) that haven't won one. There has only been one championship series since 2008 (Coastal Carolina vs. Arizona in 2016) that didn't have at least one SEC team in it.

 

[mpcincal]

If you extend it to 14 years, you had two other teams make it to Game 3 of the finals (Georgia in 2008 and Arkansas in 2018) that haven't won one. There has only been one championship series since 2008 (Coastal Carolina vs. Arizona in 2016) that didn't have at least one SEC team in it.

Actually, Georgia won the CWS way back in 1990, I believe. (Or were you just referring to that 14-year stretch?)

 

[Batman]

Actually, Georgia won the CWS way back in 1990, I believe. (Or were you just referring to that 14-year stretch?)

Just that 14-year stretch. They lost to Fresno State in the 2008 championship series.

 

[mateen]

This is something you don't often see: LSU hires away Twins pitching coach Wes Johnson in the middle of the season to take the same job there, allegedly for a big raise. There is an awful lot more money available to throw around at successful college baseball programs in the south than those of us in the north might realize. The idea that a Big Ten school would be hiring away major league coaches would seem preposterous.

 

[Matt1735]

Wes came to the Twins straight from Arkansas. Disappointing to lose him mid-season, but rumor is he wants back in college to have a shot at Arky head job when Van Horn retires

 

[mateen]

That's what I heard as well. I also saw a report he's getting $750,000 a year at LSU, which shocked me.

 

[dixiehack]

He was making $350k. Is that common for a big league pitching coach? Seems low to me.

 

[DanOregon]

Stunning when you realize the Twins are leading their division. It's not like they're scraping the bottom and there is a chance he'd get sacked.

 

[Donny in his element]

I guess it just means more.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Or it just pays more.

 

[Donny in his element]

Or it just pays more.

Seems like we’re saying the same thing.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Not just $; years.