Tim Weiser, the committee chairman, talked about Connecticut being a No. 2 seed. He said the rationale is to put a regional site in a location that hasn't historically had one, which is fine for UConn being a host. But why wasn't UConn a No. 1 seed? He didn't really answer the specific question, though, which is why is UConn a No. 2 seed?
From here, I've always thought it was a good move to try to spread the game, and Connecticut did enough this year to earn a regional host spot. It would have been fascinating to see if Oregon had finished stronger to see if the Ducks would have been a host as well.
For what it's worth, Kyle Peterson did a solid job as usual on the broadcast, but I thought ESPN rifled through the 64-team field too fast and never analyzed which regionals match up in supers. Not ESPN's best work.
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espn was terrible during the selection show. kyle p was great as usual, but the espn host knew nothing about college baseball (once called rosenblatt something like 'borenbatt' and continuously referred to each regional as the "region" and also called it the World Series.) he was pathetic. it was a disgrace to have such a terrible host for the selection show.
Posted by tomdorwart | May 31, 2010 at 1:31 pm | ShortcutFlorida State splits with Miami and Virginia on the year, wins 3-of-4 games against Florida, wins one of the three toughest conferences in the country and has to travel to Connecticut just because they got swept by Clemson in their last series of the year? A complete and total travesty! Connecticut didn't win their conference tournament and didn't even finish at the top of the Big East. Florida State was consistently ranked in the top 10 until some pitching woes late in the year. Also, think about this. The ACC got 8 bids and the Big East got 3. As a number one seed Florida State has to travel to a Big East school for the regionals, and if they win and Louisville wins, travel to a Big East school for a super regional. How is that fair? Miami should have been sent to Connecticut and Florida State should have hosted a regional and had to go to Gainesville for supers if they won, with the opportunity to host if the Gators faultered. Here's to getting no reward what so ever for a good year.
Posted by PastorTree | May 31, 2010 at 1:34 pm | ShortcutP.S.- Don't quite understand how Virginia is the 5 seed and Florida is the 3 seed.
I agree whole-heartedly that ESPN went through the brackets in too rapid-fire a fashion. Broadcast could have benefited from a certain BA staffer who doesn't rifle through anything.
Posted by feetballcommish | May 31, 2010 at 1:47 pm | ShortcutI agree that FSU having to travel to UCONN is not right. To hear the commish talk about it being better for college baseball to have a regional in the Northeast is just wrong. This game is about the college kids, and a now these kids at FSU do not get to host a regional simply because it is better marketing to have the regional in UCONN. Just not right!
Posted by Ryan | June 1, 2010 at 10:17 am | ShortcutThe announcer was an idiot. He kept saying Omaha had been host for five decades. Last I checked, a decade is equal to 10 years, and Omaha has been hosting for 60, which would make it SIX decades.
Posted by Mike | June 3, 2010 at 10:26 pm | ShortcutWhy couldn't they have Erin Andrews host the show? They could have made all these mistakes and I think we could have overlooked all those screwups.