[new flame]

Personally, I couldn't care less about arguing whether one conference is better than the other, and I'm not trying to throw gas on a worn-out argument, but according to the RPIs at Boydsworld, the CAA has the power edge over the BSC. Next year the tide will flow our way. Here's the top 20 conferences out of 31 total.

Rank Rating W L W L Conference

1 0.589 341 194 344 194 ACC
2 0.586 228 139 228 140 Pac 10
3 0.573 330 208 331 208 SEC
4 0.573 273 166 284 167 Big 12
5 0.557 241 162 241 162 C-USA
6 0.552 195 171 197 171 Big West
7 0.546 197 146 203 147 WCC
8 0.523 243 204 243 204 Southern
9 0.519 245 230 250 233 Sun Belt
10 0.514 293 225 295 227 Big East
11 0.513 244 220 250 220 CAA
12 0.507 149 153 152 154 Mountain West
13 0.500 149 153 157 154 WAC
14 0.497 204 204 208 204 Big Ten
15 0.497 196 173 207 175 MVC
16 0.494 246 273 254 279 Southland
17 0.493 169 183 170 183 Big South
18 0.484 243 286 253 287 Atlantic Sun
19 0.478 278 301 284 305 Atlantic 10
20 0.478 215 257 232 259 MAC

http://www.boydsworld.com/baseball/rpi/confrpi.html

[Stevev]

It doesn't surprise me that the CAA is rated higher than the BSC. I am a little surprised in the Southern Conference ranking at 8th. Not bad for a mid major. The Big South had there better years with Coastal and Wintrhop. Time for them to come down to reality.

[Fumblerooskies]

This is the lowest I've seen the Big South in baseball RPI's.

[SuperJon]

It doesn't surprise me that the CAA is rated higher than the BSC. I am a little surprised in the Southern Conference ranking at 8th. Not bad for a mid major. The Big South had there better years with Coastal and Wintrhop. Time for them to come down to reality.

The SoCon is pretty good in baseball. Elon's not quite Coastal level but they're nothing to laugh at either.

[Stevev]

I remember a time when the Colonial conference was ranked as high as 5th and the Big South 10th.

When East Carolina and Richmond had nationally ranked programs and the others such as JMU, ODU, VCU, and others had solid programs back when they were sending 3 teams to the tournament. When East Carolina and Richmond left the conference the new teams from the north such as Drexel, Delaware, Towson, and Hofstra came way short of filling that void and the others teams seemed to drop off as well. The Colonia conference is on the way up in baseball but might be a bit "diluted" due to the northern colleges coming in.

The Big South had there better years when Coastal and Winthrop were nationally ranked or close to it putting at least 2 teams in the tournament every year. Of course Elon, UNC Greensboro, and LU had great years and would sneek in there from time to time. I believe that Elon got an at large bid as a member of the Big South. Elon and UNCG has since left the BSC and other than LU no one has risen up. Right now Coastal is the only BSC team worthy of an at large bid to the tourney.

[new flame]

Ye olde CAA and BS move up one spot each, but remain 6 spots apart. Not sure how much we can move up, should CCU make it to the CWS. Probably none, but we're just .001 behind the WAC. Maybe up to 15th out of 31?

Division I Overall
Rank Rating W L W L Conference

1 0.584 435 253 438 253 ACC
2 0.575 305 195 306 196 Pac 10
3 0.571 346 225 357 226 Big 12
4 0.566 422 289 423 289 SEC
5 0.554 309 226 309 226 C-USA
6 0.544 267 238 269 238 Big West
7 0.537 237 195 244 197 WCC
8 0.517 307 269 307 269 Southern
9 0.513 314 307 319 310 Sun Belt
10 0.513 311 281 317 281 CAA
11 0.510 366 299 369 301 Big East
12 0.502 256 230 267 232 MVC
13 0.499 279 276 284 276 Big Ten
14 0.499 194 204 197 205 Mountain West
15 0.495 200 206 208 207 WAC
16 0.494 224 233 225 233 Big South
17 0.493 318 349 326 355 Southland
18 0.485 315 357 325 358 Atlantic Sun
19 0.480 293 333 311 335 MAC
20 0.475 359 387 365 391 Atlantic 10

[JK37]

It doesn't surprise me that the CAA is rated higher than the BSC. I am a little surprised in the Southern Conference ranking at 8th. Not bad for a mid major. The Big South had there better years with Coastal and Wintrhop. Time for them to come down to reality.

The SoCon is pretty good in baseball. Elon's not quite Coastal level but they're nothing to laugh at either.

And after Elon, there isn't as much of a drop-off for the SoCon as there is after Coastal in the BSC.


Of course, that looks to change in the near future, but the bottom of the BSC will still pull it down quite some...