So at the end of the season after all the conference tournaments nation wide are finished, LSU baseball has a final record of 36-20 with an RPI ranking of #26. Still they aren't considered one of the best 64 teams in the nation. Some notable teams that were selected are Cal St. Fullerton, Southern Mississippi, Mississippi St., and Princeton. I mention those teams because LSU beat all of those teams head-to-head only losing one game to Mississippi State in a three game series. While this year was a sub-par season for LSU standards; LSU still deserved to be in post season play in my opinion. Some say that the SEC is by far the best baseball conference in the country this year. If this is true then LSU definitely deserves to be in a regional somewhere. Everyone acknowledges that Vanderbilt, Florida, and South Carolina are great baseball teams, but what remains to be seen is just how good are Mississippi St, Georgia, Alabama, and Arkansas on the national level. If any number of those four teams make it to a super regional that only lends more fire power to the argument that LSU was snubbed by the selection committee in my opinion. LSU's resume is on par with those four SEC teams and certainly on par if not better than the likes of St. John's*, Baylor*, Jacksonville, Troy, and a few other teams that were selected. I'm going to stop this rant here, I'm only making myself even more angry as I go along. In closing, I feel this whole selection committee process is about as biased as the BCS is made out to be. The NCAA needs to make a few more definitive guidelines for post season eligibility to help the selection committees in their decisions. Any and all comments are welcome on these matters.
*I feel fairly certain that having a Big XII commissioner and a St. John's AD on the selection committee helped these schools get selected for regional play. But I guess I can't really prove that.
edit: LSU also lost one game to Princeton in a three game series. Still shouldn't have made that big of a difference.
