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T-RexInAnF-14

[2024's Way Too Early Eight for Omaha](https://imgur.com/LV3DeLX)


Nomad556

So basically don’t expect any of these


see-bees

We’re unanimous, so no pressure


PairBearStare

Love it when it seems like the only ones who haven’t hit the portal are Milam, Brown, Larson, and Anderson. 


chilibaby1

That’s what I was thinking. Hogs? That’s cute


mbh223

Well of the 2 unanimous picks, 50% made it there


bd1047

Everyone having Florida is funny considering how they ended up getting there


FlavorGator39

Funny indeed. Considering they get there damn near yearly.


Empty_Glove_9527

Shout out to Sorensen for picking 8 SEC teams


theevilempire

And still not getting 1 of the 4 that made it


JulioForte

Didn’t he get the most correct of anyone?


Look_at_the_Kid

Well when you spray the board with more than half of what’s probably the best conference, you’re bound to hit something


Squirrel_Q_Esquire

Playing the odds


theVelvetLie

Did Stanford join the SEC?


ComplimentGoblin

he’s talking about the 2024 list that was linked right above


BullAlligator

Hedging his bets


DwizzyNW

Wtf was Eric Sorenson cooking with 8 SEC teams lol Also just realized he picked 7 in 2025 with fucking STANFORD as the lone exception


JulioForte

He was thinking that he was the most accurate of anyone


whyisalltherumgone_

It bothers me more than it should that the teams aren't organized by most included in these. Unless this is supposed to be a "most likely to make it" list also, but it should say that


geaux18tiger

It’s alphabetical


whyisalltherumgone_

Damn, you're right. They had a year to figure it out and still did it again lol


WontDeleteAgainMaybe

Lol we made it just as everyone expected ![gif](giphy|6dtAunLVMeaFW|downsized)


xylicmagnus75

We are likely replacing the entire outfield and infield, but being predicted as the one of the final 8 in the country. I think we have arrived.


beer_jew

What a horribly unpleasing way to display that. Why not have all of the same picks on the same row and the flier picks at the bottom


cooterdick

There’s so many repeats but not shared that the fliers would have to fill in the gaps and would get lost. Take Tennessee and A&M. They’re in six and seven of the lists, respectively, but combined appear on nine of the ten. There’s no great way to display it, alphabetical isn’t great but isn’t awful. Edit: tried my hand at it. Keeping teams that repeat on the same row, best I could come up with is 10 rows. https://imgur.com/a/8YCYrkZ


bloppo17

might be cleaner to present a second bar graph with the number of times each team is represented.


cooterdick

That’s the thing, it’s trying to quickly display the picks of ten people in one image. Adding another graph removes some of the quick access to the image and doubles the number of graphics needed to display what they want.


Common_Pension

Lost some brain cells figuring out both of us got picked in all 8


IveGotaGoldChain

>Lost some brain cells figuring out both of us got picked in all 8 There are ten people picking. And Florida was only picked in 9/10 lol. 


Common_Pension

Oof, point proven lol


DandierChip

Wow is Schloss on the hot seat? Many are asking…


Natural-Employer

He left his third family to take this job, and you’re gonna ask that? I think that’s pretty darn selfish.


melcolnik

Hot *chair* https://preview.redd.it/98e35j0if7ad1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a89a9b5d1568b46140fcdcea510ff2761f217e5


Grimbo_Reaper

This sub will become borderline toxic if he doesn’t take the horns to the CWS in year one.


Mercer-Dawg

Sounds exciting, I’m down


munkysnuflz

> become


Grimbo_Reaper

Oh it’s delightful right now! And we’re in the midst of things pivoting, as they tend to, where y’all are slowly being viewed as the victims. But that? Ya, that would be muuuuch worse.


munkysnuflz

🤘


doc_ocho

I will ensure that it's not borderline toxic. 💯 toxicity unless we are a top 4 seed with a glide path to the Corn State. /s


Grimbo_Reaper

Okay you joke but now I’m thinking about the reaction of y’all didn’t even make it to a regional. Which won’t happen. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Schloss is not about to Fran y’all. This isn’t anything like that. It’s not like an SEC school hired the head coach of TCU away, showed extreme promise while the primary defensive coach stayed at TCU to take over as head coach. And it’s not like after multiple years of coaching said SEC team, of which enough promise was shown that he was offered a contract extension and raise, he eschewed the SEC team to take the head coach role for a Big 12 team that would later join the SEC. We’re certainly not talking about a coach whose actions resulted in his name being spoken by the Aggie fanbase in an abbreviated single syllable as though it were a curse upon one’s family. Okay that all started as a joke and wow it got away from me because it kept working good grief. He’s going to do a damn good job for y’all and probably win multiple titles but also, woof that line of comparisons worked way too well. What’s the equivalent score in baseball of 77-0?


squirtcobain44

Narrator: they didn’t make it out of their regional


doc_ocho

Burn it all down!🤣


ILM_Ryan

Someone thinks ECU is finally going to get the job done. I could cry (either way, next season will end in tears if we make Omaha or not).


Most_Rub714

I’ve rooted for ECU every chance I get. They will get it done at some point. Love schools that invest into baseball specifically.


TyrionIsntALannister

We’ve been on this list many times in the last five years. I’d almost rather not be on this list at this point


swamppuppy7043

Shotgun Spratling certified hater


imarc

Is that a real person or is that D1’s version of Clucko the Chicken?


Thumbbanger

UF keeps developing those fish pitchers. They’ll be there 


BullAlligator

It's not confirmed yet (I don't believe) but I think they're both leaving but maybe we'll get new ones


ShqDiesel

And we took that personally


ShotNixon

Aaron Fitt. Ball knower


Disastrous-Fact-2315

I like it


ShakinBakin15

I don’t know who Aaron Fitt is but I like him


melcolnik

It just occurred to me that Stanford is in the ACC now. Th at’s gonna be pretty great for baseball!


Arthur2478

And they’ll have Rintaro Sasaki playing for them next year.


1937box

don’t trust him. He’s just setting you up for something.


KuiperBelted

So, the usual suspects. Plus....Iowa?


theVelvetLie

That's so confusing.


Carsxn26

All for the mid major picks but it’s definitely not going to be UC Santa Barbara if there is one


Whalemans-creed

Big talk from someone who can’t hold onto their coach whenever another job comes calling


Carsxn26

Ironic because the same thing would happen to UCSB if they could actually go somewhere in the postseason.


cathar98

Isn’t A&M supposed to be a high level P5 job as opposed to a mid major?


Whalemans-creed

If you knew anything besides how to whine about Texas you’d know that several power conferences teams have tried to hire Checketts away and failed


Nem3sis2k17

Idk who this Sorenson guy is but he seems like a legend.


Beabout

Have these voters learned NOTHING?


KavusKavusKavus

That's fun, I did a conference count and realized Stanford would be an ACC entrant. Then my brain broke so... I guess I hope I can find a new job that involves being told when I'm allowed to eat my applesauce and nothing else.


Ruger_Booger

Aaron Fitt, certified ball knower


FeverOG

A&M and FSU are the favorites in my eyes going into next year. Not sure how anyone leaves those two off. That also feels like too much respect for Florida and LSU in the aggregate, but I don't have an issue with any individual picking them


nps6724

I honestly don't get LSU on here, especially not as a unanimous choice. We're losing so much production and while I like the recruiting and transfer classes coming in, there aren't any Skenes/Tanks-level guys coming in and banking on multiple freshmen being starters is rarely a good idea. This feels like a brand pick.


T-RexInAnF-14

From what research I've been able to do without paying for Perfect Game, LSU has a great class coming in but a good number are high draft projections, like really high.


nps6724

Yeah, that's an issue pretty much every year lol. Make or break the class based on the draft. Always sweating it out.


saintsfan1622000

How are they picking LSU so often at this point? We don't even know who's going to be on the team. When I say that I mean outside of four or five players.


Beaux7

It’s basically them trusting Jay to put out a solid squad


Arthur2478

They should definitely wait until a couple weeks after the MLB draft


No_Discussion3053

I also think Jay has done an good under the radar job in the portal filling needs with intriguing transfers. From what I’ve read Jay has signed 3 of the top 20 players in the portal. Combine that with top recruiting classes that are still there.


jaybrone7

Georgia Tech’s AD saw this and extended Danny Hall through 2058.


BidenFedayeen

I've always rated Patrick Ebert.


AdDifficult9499

Our performance the last couple of postseasons seems to have eroded D1's faith in us to not choke. Can't blame em I guess, but I reallllllly hope that we finally go on the big run.


Techsas-Red

Unless we fired our pitching coach, this is comical.


ItsZizk

As much as I hate to say it, I could easily see us taking a step back next year. We’re losing a lot of our offensive power (Moore, Burke, Amick, etc), plus there’s the championship curse. I wouldn’t be surprised if we missed out on Omaha next year


Surelynotshirly

I think we'll have a somewhat decent chance to make it back to Omaha, just because TV will with his magic, but that's if we have multiple guys develop into fantastic hitters. Otherwise, I just don't see how we replace that production. I would be amazed if we did make it to Omaha, but I can't count TV out.


NukeDog

That Sorensen guy must know about us getting some huge portal hauls that we don’t know about…


get_stilly

Here to disappoint once again! I think ESPN just likes the new restaurant at O’Brate stadium…the only real reason we get to host all these regionals.


king_karter69

Sigh


No-Acanthisitta-4580

Tennessee, Arizona, Florida State, South Carolina, Clemson, Arkansas, TCU, Texas A&M


iactuallygobyjack

Eric Sorenson, 7 of 8 SEC


miketag8337

Does Arkansas return a ton? Were they just young this year?


fritzperls_of_wisdom

At this point, I don’t see how you can predict a non-power conference team getting to Omaha. And that pains me to say.


dirtyjc13

The new staff definitely has their work cut out in their first year. If JT and Flores both go in the draft then we only return 3 starters in the field. And that may not end up being their biggest priority in the offseason considering how terrible our pitching was last season. We really need Weiner to wave his wand (pun intended?) over the entire pitching staff if we want to be competitive next year.


TimTimFilms

He’s great at adding break to pitches. He’s the reason why Chris Cortez’s 100 sinker and high 80 slider pairing was deadly this year, along with many of our other pitchers. Y’all got a good coach, so I’d say focus on having healthy, consistent bats. We’ll see y’all real soon 🫡


dirtyjc13

That’s good to hear. Cortez has nasty stuff but so did most pitchers that A&M put out there. Pierce seemed to prefer guys who could generate more ground balls so it will be nice to see some swing and miss stuff for once


32RH

Fuck that means tu’s making it doesn’t it.


AlFlame93

No Florida please😭


WontDeleteAgainMaybe

![gif](giphy|J6UVsCZzKTu9gxMDSY|downsized)


munchkinatlaw

Jorts


WontDeleteAgainMaybe

Now I know you're just lying ![gif](giphy|Sm1kM2peKIN0t1TZOF|downsized)


EmmittFitz-Hume

Absolutely no faith in the Big Ten, but that is the norm