cophbulls Posted March 25, 2015 Group: TBP Subscriber III Topic Count: 417 Content Count: 3,175 Reputation: 382 Days Won: 12 Joined: 08/30/2004 Share Posted March 25, 2015 And basketball is over and spring football will be over Saturday...... The Bulls baseball team has quietly made some nice headway during their OOC schedule. Since, what is now known as the, Big Trouble in Little Tallahassee, the Bulls have gone 10-2 with wins over #18 illinois, cross-state rivals, FGCU, FIU, Stetson, FAMU, and BCC, as well as a sweep of BE foe Seton Hall. After last nights comeback win against FGCU where, left for dead but re-animated, Buddy Putnam hit his 3rd and 4th home runs of the season, the Bulls are now ranked 58th in RPI. In case you are wondering, baseball works the same as basketball, in that there are 64 teams with conf champs getting auto-bids. So accounting for the auto-bids below the top 64, USF is right now 9th team out (yep, still bracketology folks, get on board!). This is a far cry from 3 weeks ago when they were in the 200's in RPI. So, the purpose here is, after you see the pointless wonder that is spring football, swing on over to the diamond and watch USF take on Cincy. First series of the conference schedule, Cincy's pretty bad, you might just see the Bulls rack up win 18 or 19 of the young season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triple B Posted March 25, 2015 Group: Moderator Topic Count: 1,615 Content Count: 74,626 Reputation: 10,871 Days Won: 424 Joined: 11/25/2005 Share Posted March 25, 2015 One thing that stuck out from an article I read this morning, not sure where, is the that we've got 12 hr's so far .... which either equals or surpasses ALL of last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cophbulls Posted March 25, 2015 Group: TBP Subscriber III Topic Count: 417 Content Count: 3,175 Reputation: 382 Days Won: 12 Joined: 08/30/2004 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 My wife claims its from new type of baseballs. I hadn't heard this nor researched it but supposedly there are new balls which allow for greater speed off the bat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTrue Posted March 25, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 152 Content Count: 19,395 Reputation: 6,097 Days Won: 233 Joined: 01/13/2011 Share Posted March 25, 2015 (edited) My wife claims its from new type of baseballs. I hadn't heard this nor researched it but supposedly there are new balls which allow for greater speed off the bat. Tighter seams have two effects: 1) Tougher for pitchers to grip and apply the torque needed for any sort of breaking ball. 2) Also going to make the ball a little straighter in its path to the plate as per Bernoulli's principle. Probably the same on the way off the bat as well resulting in a bit more distance. Also - http://baseballnews.com/will-flat-seam-baseball-change-college-baseball/ Edited March 25, 2015 by JTrue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDYZR Posted March 27, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 486 Content Count: 12,462 Reputation: 2,843 Days Won: 25 Joined: 12/14/2005 Share Posted March 27, 2015 My wife claims its from new type of baseballs. I hadn't heard this nor researched it but supposedly there are new balls which allow for greater speed off the bat. Tighter seams have two effects: 1) Tougher for pitchers to grip and apply the torque needed for any sort of breaking ball. 2) Also going to make the ball a little straighter in its path to the plate as per Bernoulli's principle. Probably the same on the way off the bat as well resulting in a bit more distance. Also - http://baseballnews.com/will-flat-seam-baseball-change-college-baseball/ So every team's offensive numbers should be up. Like aluminum bats did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paisa el Toro Posted March 27, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 132 Content Count: 10,380 Reputation: 1,058 Days Won: 18 Joined: 08/11/2003 Share Posted March 27, 2015 And basketball is over and spring football will be over Saturday...... The Bulls baseball team has quietly made some nice headway during their OOC schedule. Since, what is now known as the, Big Trouble in Little Tallahassee, the Bulls have gone 10-2 with wins over #18 illinois, cross-state rivals, FGCU, FIU, Stetson, FAMU, and BCC, as well as a sweep of BE foe Seton Hall. After last nights comeback win against FGCU where, left for dead but re-animated, Buddy Putnam hit his 3rd and 4th home runs of the season, the Bulls are now ranked 58th in RPI. In case you are wondering, baseball works the same as basketball, in that there are 64 teams with conf champs getting auto-bids. So accounting for the auto-bids below the top 64, USF is right now 9th team out (yep, still bracketology folks, get on board!). This is a far cry from 3 weeks ago when they were in the 200's in RPI. So, the purpose here is, after you see the pointless wonder that is spring football, swing on over to the diamond and watch USF take on Cincy. First series of the conference schedule, Cincy's pretty bad, you might just see the Bulls rack up win 18 or 19 of the young season. And prior iterations of the basebulls likely would have dropped the games against Stetson, FGCU, and/or FIU. If Kingston can make a dent in conference play, I'm really optimistic about what he can accomplish with the few more years under his belt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smazza Posted March 27, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 9,898 Content Count: 66,091 Reputation: 2,434 Days Won: 172 Joined: 01/01/2001 Share Posted March 27, 2015 let me know when usf is a top 30 team(as they should be) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danm1983 Posted March 27, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 44 Content Count: 2,994 Reputation: 151 Days Won: 4 Joined: 08/20/2009 Share Posted March 27, 2015 let me know when usf is a top 30 team(as they should be) give it a year, seems very promising at this point for once. conference play is where i'm really hoping they can make some noise. obviously ucf and uconn are really solid teams, but usf should be pushing for top 3 in conference every year imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaUSFBull Posted March 27, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 263 Content Count: 24,750 Reputation: 3,107 Days Won: 87 Joined: 12/15/2009 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Go Basebulls! Good to hear things are looking up from PradoBall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BDYZR Posted March 27, 2015 Group: Member Topic Count: 486 Content Count: 12,462 Reputation: 2,843 Days Won: 25 Joined: 12/14/2005 Share Posted March 27, 2015 let me know when usf is a top 30 team(as they should be) Better yet, why don't you let us know, but not before then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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