Monday News and Notes: Gamecocks Win Regional and More

by Gamecock Man on Jun 7, 2025 12:59 PM EDT in News Comment 7 comments

Greetings, Gamecocks fans. The big news today is that the Gamecocks won the Columbia regional with a 10-2 win over the Virginia Tech Hokies yesterday afternoon. Carolina will either host College of Charleston or travel to Coastal Carolina for the Super Regional, depending on the outcome of today's game in Conway. Here are some headlines on the topic:

Columbia Regional: The Morning After. Leftover Hot Dog looks back over the weekend.

Morris: USC takes care of its business | GoGamecocks. Ron Morris talks Gamecocks baseball.

Morales named MVP of regional | GoGamecocks. Adrian Morales won regional MVP. Hats also go off to Evan Marzili, who had a breakout weekend. Expect to see more of him this postseason.

Some non-baseball news:

LSU on top of early SEC recruiting rankings - SEC Blog - ESPN. ESPN has released its early team rankings for the 2011 recruiting class, and LSU is the top SEC team at No. 2 nationally. The Tigers already have 11. H/T: Red Cup Rebellion.

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In other college sports news, the Pac-10 reconfiguration gets even dicier, as the Texas State Legislature pushes for Baylor to be included in place of Colorado.

I know this isn’t related to USC, but any potential realignment scenario ultimately affects the SEC.

http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/ncf/news/story?id=5256377

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/060710dnspoexpansion.793f801a.html

by VA Libertarian on Jun 7, 2025 1:54 PM EDT reply actions

Thanks for the link.

It’s definitely relevant; I just have trouble keeping up with everything sometimes. It’s been a busy morning.

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by Gamecock Man on Jun 7, 2025 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions

No problem.

by VA Libertarian on Jun 7, 2025 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions

There’s also this steamy piece from the Denver Post, which concerns the hypocrisy of “the same educators who decry the evils of a football playoff now peddle their student-athletes like pieces of meat.” The article is a jab at the idea of Colorado joining a conference where its nearest opponent is over 600 miles away, and hardly a person has even blinked about it.

http://www.denverpost.com/kiszla/ci_15236809

by VA Libertarian on Jun 7, 2025 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions

It does strike me as curious that the same people that are willing to undermine the nature of student athleticism by toying with the idea of lucrative super conferences...

are the same ones that were unwilling to toy with the even more lucrative idea of a playoff out of fealty to the student athleticism paradigm.

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by Gamecock Man on Jun 7, 2025 2:40 PM EDT up reply actions

It just furthers the bottom line that, at the end of the day, it’s all about the control of money. Everything else is politics.

It’s one of the biggest reasons I’ve been a playoff advocate for years now. The only argument the bowl crowd has that I like is the ‘regular season’ argument, but even that goes out the window for me when an undefeated SEC champ like Auburn gets shafted. And, as I’ve expressed other places, I’d rather see a conference champion playoff system that still gives a lot of importance to the regular season (i.e. you’d still have to go at least 9-3 or 10-2, not 9-7 like the NFL), but allows for more interesting OOC games instead of Mega State U. vs. Cupcake College.

by VA Libertarian on Jun 7, 2025 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions