BG baseball vs. Vermont cancelled
BG baseball vs. Vermont cancelled
At least we finished strong down there in Florida. Hopefully we can now come back north now and ride this three-game winning streak with the MAC slate coming up soon. We have non-conference games at Cincinnati, a three-game series at Murray State, a game at Wright State and our home opener vs. Cleveland State before diving into MAC play.
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Re: BG baseball vs. Vermont cancelled
33,BGSU33 wrote:At least we finished strong down there in Florida. Hopefully we can now come back north now and ride this three-game winning streak with the MAC slate coming up soon. We have non-conference games at Cincinnati, a three-game series at Murray State, a game at Wright State and our home opener vs. Cleveland State before diving into MAC play.
Was I wrong in thinking that it's tough to play what amounts to your 4th thru 7th games of the year vs. teams that were playing their 17th thru 20th approximately? Hopefully, the last 3 games are an indicator that we're better than we showed at the "start" of the season.
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Re: BG baseball vs. Vermont cancelled
Actually, I thought I read somewhere recently that they changed that this year, and set a "universal start date" for all schools, so that the issue you mentioned doesn't happen. Though I don't remember if that was with actual games or just practices.Class of 61 wrote:33,
Was I wrong in thinking that it's tough to play what amounts to your 4th thru 7th games of the year vs. teams that were playing their 17th thru 20th approximately? Hopefully, the last 3 games are an indicator that we're better than we showed at the "start" of the season.
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That is correct. All NCAA schools now have a common practice and game starting date, starting this year. That being said, there are still some HUGE advantages of being able to work out outdoors on a regular field, throwing off of a dirt mound etc, rather than working out and trying to get ready indoors.
It certainly doesn't look good for next weeks games with the weather we are having here, as well as that in Cincy and kentucky!
It certainly doesn't look good for next weeks games with the weather we are having here, as well as that in Cincy and kentucky!
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Factman, I'm not disputing the "common" start date...but, if I'm not mistaken, MOST, if not all the teams we've played thus far had somewhere in the range of 6-10 MORE games played than we did...thought I saw it on Falcons.com re: some of the records of the other teams.factman wrote:That is correct. All NCAA schools now have a common practice and game starting date, starting this year. That being said, there are still some HUGE advantages of being able to work out outdoors on a regular field, throwing off of a dirt mound etc, rather than working out and trying to get ready indoors.
It certainly doesn't look good for next weeks games with the weather we are having here, as well as that in Cincy and kentucky!
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That could well be, but they still have to start the same date and are limited to 56 games (I believe) for the season. Some might have been in Florida the week before we got there and played 6-8 that week. This coming week is a much bigger week for teams to be on break, and the teams were rather sparse this past week and that is why we played Northeastern three times, rather than other teams. We normally would not play a MAC team either, but WMU was what was available this week.
Actually, the “universal” start date this year of February 22 is true for the most part - with a very small exception. While nearly the entire country started, or was allowed to start, on February 22, the NCAA allowed Hawaii and Hawaii-Hilo to play one week earlier because of their remote locations and their ability to play at that time. They played a three-game series on February 15-17 in Hawaii.
While the universal start date is set, you are still going to see schools in the south play more games on the average than many of their northern counterparts because of the number of cancelled games due to snow, field conditions, etc., in March and even into April in some parts. The rule certainly helps the northern teams more than the southern teams in terms of getting to play due to a common stating date. But the one things that sometimes goes unnoticed for northern teams is, despite having a common starting date, many of the northern teams are “playing” for the first time outside after “practicing” indoors. For many northern teams, their season-opening series and games mark the first time in they are active outdoors while many southern teams have been taking live balls outside for weeks. You’re never going to be able to completely level the playing field for northern and southern teams early on, but the common start date does help give the northern schools a more of even advantage over what took place in years past as the discrepancy in games won’t be as skewed as before.
The bottom line is, baseball is game that’s best for a team to be played about every day. If a team is able to set its rotation and pitch accordingly, and the batters and fielders are able to playing continuously, etc., the better the team will be. Once a season really gets going you’re playing much more than you are doing any sort of practicing. In the old system, northern teams were usually catching the same stride as southern schools late in the season. But with the new starting date, the northern schools won’t lag as much out of the gate or near midseason.
While the universal start date is set, you are still going to see schools in the south play more games on the average than many of their northern counterparts because of the number of cancelled games due to snow, field conditions, etc., in March and even into April in some parts. The rule certainly helps the northern teams more than the southern teams in terms of getting to play due to a common stating date. But the one things that sometimes goes unnoticed for northern teams is, despite having a common starting date, many of the northern teams are “playing” for the first time outside after “practicing” indoors. For many northern teams, their season-opening series and games mark the first time in they are active outdoors while many southern teams have been taking live balls outside for weeks. You’re never going to be able to completely level the playing field for northern and southern teams early on, but the common start date does help give the northern schools a more of even advantage over what took place in years past as the discrepancy in games won’t be as skewed as before.
The bottom line is, baseball is game that’s best for a team to be played about every day. If a team is able to set its rotation and pitch accordingly, and the batters and fielders are able to playing continuously, etc., the better the team will be. Once a season really gets going you’re playing much more than you are doing any sort of practicing. In the old system, northern teams were usually catching the same stride as southern schools late in the season. But with the new starting date, the northern schools won’t lag as much out of the gate or near midseason.
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How about moving the "common start date" to April15 and playing thru the summer semmester/quarter? That would lessen the problem of college players playing for "other" coaches in the summer, which some coaches are becoming more and more reluctant about, due to the possible injuries, over pitching, etc. Makes sense to me, but maybe no one else! 
