Baseball Season Starts Tomorrow

[FU Hoopla]

Also let's add its been 36 years since football won a I-AA National Title, and that crazy long drought looks like it may never end......

[RoanokeGreensboro80]

Until some of the medium-sized state schools (ie. those schools without a predominant FBS school already in their state) move up to FBS it seems extremely unlikely for us…

[apaladin]

Confirming what I have said before baseball gives mid-majors the best chance to compete with the big boys. A couple of examples already: UNCG 4 Wake Forest 0. Upstate 10 Boston College 7. There are many others.

Apaladin writes many good and interesting and helpful things on the UFFP, but affirm does not like apaladin's incessant comments about baseball and usually ignores them.
Saying that baseball gives mid-majors the best chance to compete with the big boys is irrelevant. He names a couple of examples and says there are many others. He does not say how many others there actually are, so who knows how many such scores there are in a season, compared to the total number of games mid-majors have against "the big boys". It may be a relatively small number. A D1 team can play up to 56 games in a regular season, so a lot of games have to be scheduled within approximately the same number of weeks as are in the football and basketball seasons. Big boys have to schedule nearby games (such as WFU vs. UNCG) in many cases because of all the travel that would be involved otherwise, expensive in both time and money for the visiting team when the game is far away.
The percentage of mid-major wins against big boys may be no higher than the percentage is for FCS wins vs FBS in football or the percentage of mig-majors wins vs major conference teams in basketball; and if it is higher, it is not much higher and can usually be explained because the big boys are needing to rest pitchers for more important games. Basically the big boys in baseball do not even take the mid-major opponents very seriously, because the big boys have so many subequent chances to bounce back in upcoming imporrtant games. Most importantly, when a mid-major team does beat a big boy team in baseball, very few people even know about it, it is not big news, and it is essentially irrelevant. When a mid-major beats a big boy in basketball, people know and people remember. The same is equally or even more true when it happens in football. In baseball, no one really cares. It is merely an interesting but trivial and irrelevant occurence that very few people even notice. A mid-major team can somehow beat a big boy in baseball and be terrible the rest of the season, when it really matters. The best chance to compete? What does that even mean? To compete in one single basically meaningless game? "To compete against the 'big boys'" is no reason for wanting Furman to reinstate baseball, all things considered.

Affirm, good thoughts. Here is an example of when I said many others. Just looking at the ACC. Only 1.5 weeks into the season the ACC has lost 17 times to mid-majors. 10 different ACC teams have mid-major losses. Another point is baseball is the only major sports where Power teams play at mid-majors.

[Choir Boy]

Also let's add its been 36 years since football won a I-AA National Title, and that crazy long drought looks like it may never end......

And how long since the Bball team won a Natty or was a semi finalist 2X.....Thought So

[FU Hoopla]

Also let's add its been 36 years since football won a I-AA National Title, and that crazy long drought looks like it may never end......

And how long since the Bball team won a Natty or was a semi finalist 2X.....Thought So

"Thought so"??
What exactly did you think lol.......

I would be doing football a major favor by putting an FCS title on the same level as winning NCAA basketball tourney games, when the fact is that its actually a lesser accomplishment.........

Surely you can't be serious, let me know when football moves up from playing Pee-Wee college football and we can talk

[Choir Boy]

So says a jock sniffer who worships a ball team that has one conference championship in what 22 years? Winning 20 games a year ain’t squat with no Rings or Ships….just validates that maybe we should play a harder non conference schedule minus the cupcakes to prepare for the all mighty SoCon

UR1SMFer

[FU Hoopla]

So says a jock sniffer who worships a ball team that has one conference championship in what 22 years? Winning 20 games a year ain’t squat with no Rings or Ships….just validates that maybe we should play a harder non conference schedule minus the cupcakes to prepare for the all mighty SoCon

UR1SMFer

It's always hilarious to see you get all worked up over the dumbest shit dude.........

You worship PEE-WEE Ball

[Louis Tully]

Your reference to Furman Football as pee wee ball is the most egregiously insulting reference to any of our Athletic Programs that I have read on these pages in the last 20+ years.

[FU Hoopla]

Your reference to Furman Football as pee wee ball is the most egregiously insulting reference to any of our Athletic Programs that I have read on these pages in the last 20+ years.

And it was a most deserved reference at that...........

Anybody that wants to constantly diss the hoops program like choir boy is going to get hit back square in the nuts.......
Literally 80% of the posts he makes are egregiously insulting to the hoops program........

So yeah, move up to FBS or deal with the consequences of not...................

[FU Hoopla]

Do I need to remind you what happened just 5 months ago.........

76-0.............

[Choir Boy]

Your reference to Furman Football as pee wee ball is the most egregiously insulting reference to any of our Athletic Programs that I have read on these pages in the last 20+ years.

Well said LT
It all started when he said Furman Football was a dumpster after last season….and the azz clown has gone hill ever since
Rumor is he his Bob Richey’s house boy

[Choir Boy]

Your reference to Furman Football as pee wee ball is the most egregiously insulting reference to any of our Athletic Programs that I have read on these pages in the last 20+ years.

And 99.5% of your kool aid induced posts on bball don’t substantiate an world class basketball program that has won ONE ring in 42 years
I hope we win it all in Ash next week. I will be there maybe we can get together and u can suck my nuts rather than feign to hit them?
Let me know I am staying at the Grove Park Inn

And it was a most deserved reference at that...........

Anybody that wants to constantly diss the hoops program like choir boy is going to get hit back square in the nuts.......
Literally 80% of the posts he makes are egregiously insulting to the hoops program........

So yeah, move up to FBS or deal with the consequences of not...................

[FU Hoopla]

Your reference to Furman Football as pee wee ball is the most egregiously insulting reference to any of our Athletic Programs that I have read on these pages in the last 20+ years.

Well said LT
It all started when he said Furman Football was a dumpster after last season….and the azz clown has gone hill ever since
Rumor is he his Bob Richey’s house boy

Nah, it all started with you about 2 years ago when you started shit talking the basketball program.........

You will keep getting owned every single time

[FU Hoopla]

What do these athletics programs all have in common over the past 10 years?

Louisville
Villanova
Virginia
South Carolina
Tulane
UAB
Loyola Chicago
Belmont
College of Charleston
Navy
Princeton
Liberty
App St.


Here is a hint, its not football related

[FGT]

Confirming what I have said before baseball gives mid-majors the best chance to compete with the big boys. A couple of examples already: UNCG 4 Wake Forest 0. Upstate 10 Boston College 7. There are many others.

Apaladin writes many good and interesting and helpful things on the UFFP, but affirm does not like apaladin's incessant comments about baseball and usually ignores them.
Saying that baseball gives mid-majors the best chance to compete with the big boys is irrelevant. He names a couple of examples and says there are many others. He does not say how many others there actually are, so who knows how many such scores there are in a season, compared to the total number of games mid-majors have against "the big boys". It may be a relatively small number. A D1 team can play up to 56 games in a regular season, so a lot of games have to be scheduled within approximately the same number of weeks as are in the football and basketball seasons. Big boys have to schedule nearby games (such as WFU vs. UNCG) in many cases because of all the travel that would be involved otherwise, expensive in both time and money for the visiting team when the game is far away.
The percentage of mid-major wins against big boys may be no higher than the percentage is for FCS wins vs FBS in football or the percentage of mig-majors wins vs major conference teams in basketball; and if it is higher, it is not much higher and can usually be explained because the big boys are needing to rest pitchers for more important games. Basically the big boys in baseball do not even take the mid-major opponents very seriously, because the big boys have so many subequent chances to bounce back in upcoming imporrtant games. Most importantly, when a mid-major team does beat a big boy team in baseball, very few people even know about it, it is not big news, and it is essentially irrelevant. When a mid-major beats a big boy in basketball, people know and people remember. The same is equally or even more true when it happens in football. In baseball, no one really cares. It is merely an interesting but trivial and irrelevant occurence that very few people even notice. A mid-major team can somehow beat a big boy in baseball and be terrible the rest of the season, when it really matters. The best chance to compete? What does that even mean? To compete in one single basically meaningless game? "To compete against the 'big boys'" is no reason for wanting Furman to reinstate baseball, all things considered.

The baseball team had been to the same number of post season NCAA tournaments as the basketball team has over the last 40 years…….One

Actually baseball has been to 2 NCAA tournaments in the last 34 years. 1991 and 2005.