- Jun 6, 2018
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Pattar,
I have no issue if OU gets back and when they wet the bed Thursday I expected them to still be a tough out. They are a great hitting and fielding team with some suspect pitching.
My issue is merely this. Teams losing day 1 should have it tougher than winning 4 in 2 days or now in this case 4 in 3 days.
I mean come on these girls have probably 10+ years of double elimination tournament experience where they have had to play 4+ games in a day (sometimes at nationals 4 games back to back) and you know what it taught them? Don't lose early.
To me if OU or any day 1 losers make it into the championship game they should have had a tougher road to get there and my biggest gripe in all of this is JMU should not have been penalized for winning day 1 with potentially 2 more games against the team they beat.
That is why I think the winners should play it out for the first birth and the loser of that game should play the 1 loser team that made it through the gauntlet of 6 other teams that lost after the first two days.
In that scenario, if hypothetically speaking it was OU vs JMU and OU wins to go face Alabama then tip the cap to OU and they earned it.
On a side note, in this situation with all 4 teams being in a (if necessary game) scenario wouldn't it be better to see JMU vs FSU and Alabama vs OU? I guess I just would to see fresh matchups and no team having an advantage/dis-advantage from having played their opponent once or twice in the last 4 days.
I have no issue if OU gets back and when they wet the bed Thursday I expected them to still be a tough out. They are a great hitting and fielding team with some suspect pitching.
My issue is merely this. Teams losing day 1 should have it tougher than winning 4 in 2 days or now in this case 4 in 3 days.
I mean come on these girls have probably 10+ years of double elimination tournament experience where they have had to play 4+ games in a day (sometimes at nationals 4 games back to back) and you know what it taught them? Don't lose early.
To me if OU or any day 1 losers make it into the championship game they should have had a tougher road to get there and my biggest gripe in all of this is JMU should not have been penalized for winning day 1 with potentially 2 more games against the team they beat.
That is why I think the winners should play it out for the first birth and the loser of that game should play the 1 loser team that made it through the gauntlet of 6 other teams that lost after the first two days.
In that scenario, if hypothetically speaking it was OU vs JMU and OU wins to go face Alabama then tip the cap to OU and they earned it.
On a side note, in this situation with all 4 teams being in a (if necessary game) scenario wouldn't it be better to see JMU vs FSU and Alabama vs OU? I guess I just would to see fresh matchups and no team having an advantage/dis-advantage from having played their opponent once or twice in the last 4 days.