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SJ76 said:
Pac 12 was the toughest I’ve ever seen it this year.
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"He would have won more but... but... but... the competition wouldn't let him!"

lol
 
Come on y'all now. Colorado competed this season. They just lost twice as many games as they won. But we can't forget Coach Prime is still coming, collecting receipts, selling sunglasses, and whatever other side hustles he got going.
 
SJ76 said:
Pac 12 was the toughest I’ve ever seen it this year. Takes time to turn around programs especially ones that were way down.

Did he just hire Warren Sapp or was that all BS?
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That is probably a bad thing, right? Most kids today don't know who Warren Sapp is, and just because you were a good NFL player doesn't make you a good coach.

We have this discussion on our UGA boards all the time - people wanting to hire Hines Ward as a WR coach. He's coaching at a lower level to learn the ropes, but you don't just jump into coaching. Even Deon started at the high school level with his kids and moved up with them.
 
Red_Alert said:
I stopped subscribing to SI in the late 90s when they called Rosenblatt Stadium (Home of the CWS) a "shoebox".

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A Game Gone Batty Baseball scores looked like football scores as the skies rained home runs

College baseball and its fans have gotten what they asked for,and it's no good. Runs. Runs. More runs. So much offense thatHoward Stern looks tame in
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The problem with Rosenblatt wasn't it's dimensions it was that the aluminum bats were too hot.

Charles Schwab field (that replaced Rosenblatt) is literally the same size (both 408' to center field) but the scores are considerably lower.

The scores are lower because the NCAA regulated the aluminum bats which essentially took the home run out of the game and brought in the era of 'Small Ball' to the CWS. It took the home run excitement out of the game for years.

To counter that, the NCAA then lowered the seams on the ball to MLB standards and brought the home run back.

All is normal now.
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Here are the distances to center field of MLB, yet that idiot SI writer called Rosenblatt a "shoebox".

Rosenblatt's 408' was farther than the vast majority of MLB stadiums.


Zero credibility for an SI sportswriter.
 
Red_Alert said:
Here are the distances to center field of MLB, yet that idiot SI writer called Rosenblatt a "shoebox".

Rosenblatt's 408' was farther than the vast majority of MLB stadiums.


Zero credibility for an SI sportswriter.
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What were the power alleys like though? That tends to tell you more about how homer friendly a park is going to play.

(And yes, I saw that the writer only mentioned the corners and dead center so he would still not be "right" about this :wink:)

edit: no dimensions here but those power alleys do look close, it seems like it only gets "deep" quite close to dead center

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DragonFromTo said:
What were the power alleys like though? That tends to tell you more about how homer friendly a park is going to play.
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335 in the corners is pretty standard, if a maybe a little short. 375 to the gaps.

In favorable wind, that can play like a really small park. But, stick lightning rods in players' hands instead of bats and it's always going to play small.
 
Tharvot said:
335 in the corners is pretty standard, if a maybe a little short. 375 to the gaps.

In favorable wind, that can play like a really small park. But, stick lightning rods in players' hands instead of bats and it's always going to play small.
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Is 375 to the gaps documented? I'm guessing it was a cookie cutter design.

I remember playing with the bats so I'm not suggesting or arguing that they didn't play a part, just trying to get a clearer picture here.
 
DragonFromTo said:
Is 375 to the gaps documented? I'm guessing it was a cookie cutter design.

I remember playing with the bats so I'm not suggesting or arguing that they didn't play a part, just trying to get a clearer picture here.
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I looked up the dimensions and that's what the interwebs told me. Cookie cutter rounded outfield design.

On its face, that's not a small field. But the juiced -5 bats (and even the -3s later on) made it seem very small. If the wind was blowing out with those bats, it was homerun derby.
 
Collegefbfan said:
Come on y'all now. Colorado competed this season. They just lost twice as many games as they won. But we can't forget Coach Prime is still coming, collecting receipts, selling sunglasses, and whatever other side hustles he got going.
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College footballs version of a kardashian
 
Lol @ Any NFL team who would hire Deion. What's Deion gonna do when he can't just cut everyone and bring in a 90% new roster when things don't go how he wants?
 
The people who believe Deion is a great head coach are the same people who still think pro wrestling is real.
 
Tharvot said:
I looked up the dimensions and that's what the interwebs told me. Cookie cutter rounded outfield design.

On its face, that's not a small field. But the juiced -5 bats (and even the -3s later on) made it seem very small. If the wind was blowing out with those bats, it was homerun derby.
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Yes. Rosenblatt's outfield was to the northeast, so a typical June breeze/wind in Omaha would be out of the southwest and certainly help carry the ball.

Rosenblatt was home to the Omaha Royals. A minor league team for the K.C. Royals.

The Omaha Royals (now the Omaha Storm Chasers) didn't like the new ballpark (they thought it was too large at capacity of 24,000). They built a new stadium outside of town called Werner Park to play their minor league games in.
Werner Park's dimensions are even smaller than Rosenblatt's were. Left field: 310 ft, Center field: 402 ft, Right field: 315 ft.

The toning down of the aluminum bats was actually to protect pitchers who had very little time to protect themselves. That the new bats took the homerun out of the game was a by-product.

People ask why doesn't college use wooden bats like MLB? It's too expensive to be replacing broken bats all the time. I've maybe seen 2 aluminum bats break ever.
 
podsox said:
He was talking about hunter having the Heisman nearly locked up after 2 gms
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I'll say this Hunter played both ways on a P5 team against P5 opponents and did it at a high level.

I can't hate on the kid and give him respect because that is an insane workload on a Sat.
 
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