Quote Originally Posted by Dawg06 View Post
Not an emotional reaction at all. Go back and read what I posted last week. I said we needed to win 8-9 of our last 10 for me to feel good about our at-large chances heading into the C-USA Tourney. We've already lost 2 of 4. You are only focused on what the RPI on WarrenNolan says each day and assume Top 45 earns an automatic at-large bid. A win last night would've bumped us up to ~31. That is a very big blown opportunity. This loss wasn't good for our resume at all even though it had little effect on our RPI. Now another one of our good midweek results is now a split... just like Arkansas and McNeese. And it gave a rival team with a good baseball reputation on the wrong side of the bubble a big boost. The FIU loss on Sunday wasn't as big a deal because we already won the series. We can't claim a split vs. ULL as a series win. At this point our only Top 100 series wins are Old Dominion (clinging to Top 50 at the moment), FIU (RPI 77), UTA (RPI 81), and Rice (who is 5 games below .500), and then we have a single midweek win over Mississippi State. That resume just isn't that impressive, definitely not as good as last year's resume. Our 2 remaining series are against 100+ RPI teams that won't help our RPI or resume at all.
I think last night was a tough assignment after a long trip on the weekend, which ended in disappointment. Tired players who were down a little bit mentally. And we were playing a very motivated team in front of a large, rabid (some of them need to be tested) crowd.