Lively was the perfect fit for THIS Dallas team and this past season’s Duke team. With him, we certainly go to the Final Four. I’m proud of his play especially after dealing with the loss of his mom.
It is weird, I'll give you that. But there's no "good" format for a conference tournament to be played in a week with a league of 14 -- soon to be 16 -- teams.
What I love is the same that most ACC coaches love about this format: You're guaranteed to play two games and no more than four. The baseball season is such a grind and while every coach will tell you they want to win the league tournament, it's more important for more than half of the teams in Charlotte this week to set their pitching up for next week. When you get into the double elimination stuff, you run the risk of really running your pitchers thin ... and then if you're in a championship game on Sunday, you've got the opener of a regional five days later.
I've got some hairbrained ideas on how to make this tournament "better" but they mostly involve telling teams like UNC and Clemson, that have top-8 seeds locked up, to stay home.
They should honestly just make it single elimination. Lose and go home but yeah totally agree and appreciate your thoughts. Yeesh the 5 days seems really rough, might be better to just lose to rest those pitchers!
It is weird, I'll give you that. But there's no "good" format for a conference tournament to be played in a week with a league of 14 -- soon to be 16 -- teams.
What I love is the same that most ACC coaches love about this format: You're guaranteed to play two games and no more than four. The baseball season is such a grind and while every coach will tell you they want to win the league tournament, it's more important for more than half of the teams in Charlotte this week to set their pitching up for next week. When you get into the double elimination stuff, you run the risk of really running your pitchers thin ... and then if you're in a championship game on Sunday, you've got the opener of a regional five days later.
I've got some hairbrained ideas on how to make this tournament "better" but they mostly involve telling teams like UNC and Clemson, that have top-8 seeds locked up, to stay home.
We’re playing well! Hey Conor question, why does baseball have such a weird conference tournament format? You lose 1 in pool play you’re basically out… felt like Duke having the first game gives an advantage over nc state playing twice in a row. What was the point of Clemson vs Louisville ? lol not a serious question just wanted to point out how odd it was
I hear ya, hart. I think Brown will really help this team and will give us solid production. Stewart's ceiling is much higher though and I was in the camp he didn't get enough burn last year. Browns game in Cameron was easily his best of the year that's for sure.
It still is in my opinion and is one of the reasons Duke lost Stewart and Power. The only guard difference is Sion is 6’6” and not a freshman . My one worry is he played at Tulane and didn’t see constant high level competition as he will at Duke . I’ve never been in favor of a three guard line up . You loose to much on the rebounding end and Duke did not pressure the ball a lot to create turnovers . This season you have three legit front court shot blockers and possibly another in Pat .
Big win by the softball team today over Mizzou in the Super Regional. Hard to believe this is a program that is only 7 years old. Very exciting indeed.
How this roster is utilized by the coaching staff will tell a lot . I simply think there is too much front court size to go with a three guard line up .
Yes but I think with the schools paying it will be more of a contract with stipulations. Next up you’ll have professional teams having to buy out players contracts in order to draft them . This is a joke as a whole . I agree players should be compensated. However some are going to be making more than bench players in professional sports .
How this roster is utilized by the coaching staff will tell a lot . I simply think there is too much front court size to go with a three guard line up .
