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Post by EU09 on May 20, 2019 13:04:13 GMT -5
caasports.com/tournaments/?id=127Field is set Wednesday, May 22 Game 1: No. 4 Northeastern vs No. 5 UNCW - Noon Game 2: No. 3 William & Mary vs No. 6 James Madison - 4:00 pm Thursday, May 23 Game 3: Loser game 1 vs Loser game 2 - 11:00 am Game 4: No. 1 Elon vs Lower seed games 1&2 winners - 3:00 pm Game 5: No. 2 Charleston vs Higher seed games 1&2 winners - 7:00 pm Friday, May 24 Game 6: Winner game 3 vs Lower seed games 4&5 losers - 11:00 am Game 7: Winner game 6 vs Higher seed games 4&5 losers - 3:00 pm Game 8: Winner game 4 vs winner game 5 - 7:00 pm Saturday, May 25 Game 9: Winner game 7 vs Loser game 8 - 1:00 pm Game 10: Winner game 8 vs Winner game 9 - 5:00 pm Sunday, May 26 Game 11* if necessary - 1:00 pm
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Post by euphoenix99 on May 20, 2019 13:29:44 GMT -5
I'd actually prefer either of the two higher seeds (Northeastern or W&M) from Wednesday. Getting JMU would pretty much be an away game (another reason predetermined campus sites are dumb). UNCW is always tough in the conference tourney and was Elon's only conference series loss.
Need the bats to show up and the starting pitching to deliver. Not much depth outside the weekend rotation.
Go Phoenix!
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Post by Whiner on May 20, 2019 16:30:37 GMT -5
So among comparable conferences in the southeast, The SoCon plays their tournament at Flour Field, a semi pro stadium in downtown Greenville. In the past they have played at Joseph P. Riley Park, which is also a very nice semi pro stadium by the river in Charleston, SC. The Big South plays at SEGRA Stadium, a brand new, exceptional semi pro stadium in downtown Fayetteville, NC. And The CAA? Well their tournament is held at an antiquated member college stadium, overlooking a beautiful railroad switching yard. What the heck, CAA??
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Post by fc4life on May 20, 2019 18:25:12 GMT -5
Two things. The CAA leadership is borderline incompetent.
Second
Our RPI is 103. Behind CoC and W&M. CAA tourney or bust. If we could have gone .500 in midweek games, what could have been.
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Post by whoanellie on May 20, 2019 18:30:07 GMT -5
So among comparable conferences in the southeast, The SoCon plays their tournament at Flour Field, a semi pro stadium in downtown Greenville. In the past they have played at Joseph P. Riley Park, which is also a very nice semi pro stadium by the river in Charleston, SC. The Big South plays at SEGRA Stadium, a brand new, exceptional semi pro stadium in downtown Fayetteville, NC. And The CAA? Well their tournament is held at an antiquated member college stadium, overlooking a beautiful railroad switching yard. What the heck, CAA?? I believe the venues are Minor league stadiums not semi-pro |
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Post by EU09 on May 21, 2019 10:27:55 GMT -5
The only defense to not playing in a minor league park is the cost of rental and lack of ticket sales. Not saying many tickets are being sold for games at JMU but you cut out a big rental fee I am assuming.
I mean the men's bball plays neutral site which is moving to DC's new 4,000 seat arena but the woman's tournament is moving from the host school to host school which they started doing 4 or so years ago.
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Post by bhill483 on May 21, 2019 17:50:16 GMT -5
I would think those rental fees are not set in stone. Meaning the ACC to rent DBAP which will sell out may not be the same as CAA (not that we would hold I there). I just mean with lesser crowds there are less concessions stands, ushers, ticket people - staff in general so maybe they charge less. I honestly have no clue how it works so that is all speculation.
I would like to see CAA move to neutral site minor league park. Plenty of options around NC, SC, VA to hold it. Even further north but with potentially less desirable weather.
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Post by EU09 on May 22, 2019 8:16:42 GMT -5
I would think those rental fees are not set in stone. Meaning the ACC to rent DBAP which will sell out may not be the same as CAA (not that we would hold I there). I just mean with lesser crowds there are less concessions stands, ushers, ticket people - staff in general so maybe they charge less. I honestly have no clue how it works so that is all speculation. I would like to see CAA move to neutral site minor league park. Plenty of options around NC, SC, VA to hold it. Even further north but with potentially less desirable weather. I think they probably have a set rental fee but you are right it probably costs a little less for the staffing of the facility. I would also love for it to move to a neutral site, would be nice for the players to play in a better park. I would say even hosting it at Elon would not be all that great and I think we have a pretty good set up. And as you said there are so many minor league parks in this area it would be easy to find one. The other thing it might cost a little more too because you would have to put a minor league team if they are in season out of their home field for around a week as well. There are some logistics but obviously if all these other conferences can do it so could the CAA I just think it is one less thing they have to worry about logistically and financially. |
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Post by Whiner on May 22, 2019 10:56:39 GMT -5
The CAA should check out the new High Point Rockers stadium. It's new so they're probably looking for sources of income.
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Post by bhill483 on May 22, 2019 18:37:24 GMT -5
I would think those rental fees are not set in stone. Meaning the ACC to rent DBAP which will sell out may not be the same as CAA (not that we would hold I there). I just mean with lesser crowds there are less concessions stands, ushers, ticket people - staff in general so maybe they charge less. I honestly have no clue how it works so that is all speculation. I would like to see CAA move to neutral site minor league park. Plenty of options around NC, SC, VA to hold it. Even further north but with potentially less desirable weather. I think they probably have a set rental fee but you are right it probably costs a little less for the staffing of the facility. I would also love for it to move to a neutral site, would be nice for the players to play in a better park. I would say even hosting it at Elon would not be all that great and I think we have a pretty good set up. And as you said there are so many minor league parks in this area it would be easy to find one. The other thing it might cost a little more too because you would have to put a minor league team if they are in season out of their home field for around a week as well. There are some logistics but obviously if all these other conferences can do it so could the CAA I just think it is one less thing they have to worry about logistically and financially. You don’t have to “put them out” per se - just have to have the event planned and then the league they are in can schedule them for a road trip during that week. Not that hard. The Spurs get put out of their arena for 2-3 weeks every year for a rodeo and NBA just schedules accordingly. |
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Post by bhill483 on May 24, 2019 21:06:09 GMT -5
Lost game 1 to UNCW, bounced back today to win against Northeastern and stay alive. Play W&M tomorrow at noon.
Started Kirby and Weatherbee so far. I would guess Brnovich starts early game tomorrow with the hopes to make it to a rematch with UNCW later in the day. Not sure who starts that. Staff game maybe and if they can win Kirby would go again Sunday.
Lot of ifs.
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Post by bhill483 on May 25, 2019 17:47:08 GMT -5
Bats got hot the last 2 games to keep the Phoenix alive. McCarthy starting the game that has been pushed to 8 tonight. I assume this is a full on staff game so if there are any slip ups it’s next man up. Maybe George is ready to go tomorrow if we win tonight.
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Post by fc4life on May 25, 2019 18:47:54 GMT -5
Let’s gooooooooo!
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Post by bhill483 on May 26, 2019 16:41:29 GMT -5
Gutsy effort today. Tied it up in bottom of the 9th and then lost in 10, but went down fighting. Good but not great season. Will be tough to replace Kirby and Brnovich next year.
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Post by euphoenix99 on May 27, 2019 13:26:04 GMT -5
Glad to see them fight back after a bad outing on Thursday. It's a shame they couldn't close the deal yesterday.
They did win more games during this tourney than all previous CAA tourneys combined.
Also heard it mentioned next year's tournament is in Wilmington and then Elon in 2021. I'm still in agreement with others we shouldn't be playing on campus sites. So many great minor league venues and it's just a better overall experience for the fans and players.
Go Phoenix!
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