Polls- 4/28/08

[shocks771]

Shox stay at #14 in the baseball america poll.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/college/top-25/2008/265950.html

[shocks771]

Down one spot to #15 on rivals.

http://collegebaseball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=627294

[BostonWu]

Not bad. I expected worse.

[ShockerFever]

We benefited from a couple of teams in front of us having horrid weeks and a couple teams behind us having so-so weeks.

It looks like, for the most, we escaped the wrath from the polls this week. We still however are in dire straights from hosting.

[KC Shox]

We benefited from a couple of teams in front of us having horrid weeks and a couple teams behind us having so-so weeks.

It looks like, for the most, we escaped the wrath from the polls this week. We still however are in dire straights from hosting.

Great! Another excellent opportunity to move up in the polls and we blow it.

[SekShocker]

From #7 to #9 in collegiate baseball

http://www.collegiatebaseball.com/polls/divI/currentpolldivI.htm

[SHOCKvalue]

Considering we've gone 8-5 against competition (with RPI's of 116, 8, NAIA, 137, 124, 5, and 155) over the past 16 days, I'm floored and baffled we're still in the top 15 of the worthwhile polls.

A top 15 position in the respectable polls is a bit too optimistic IMHO, but I'll certainly take it.

One other thing, Kendall Rogers kept us in the 20-25 range when we were on our win streak earlier in the season, but now that we're playing uninspired ball, we're still a top 15 team in his eyes? And the BCS peeps actually look for this guy's opinion online? :roll:

[SekShocker]

Around this time last year we were #12 in this poll and were 36-12 and we hosted so all is not lost on this season, there is still baseball to be played and if we take care of business, we still have a shot at moving up the polls and hosting a regional, national seed I would say is gone, but hosting is still a possibility. The big if is if we will take care of business and not have any horrible losses like yesterday.

[Hill Sitter]

We lost a close road game to one of the hotter teams in the country and, even given an ugly loss (our first all season, really), still won a conference road series 2-1. The reaction of the polls seems about right.

[SekShocker]

We lost a close road game to one of the hotter teams in the country and, even given an ugly loss (our first all season, really), still won a conference road series 2-1. The reaction of the polls seems about right.

No doubt. Although we don't have that "big win" or Top 25 win, until yesterday we had avoided that really bad loss, and it was on the road. So I am not completely surprised at this weeks polls.

[SekShocker]

From #7 to #8 in the ESPN/USA today Coaches Poll

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/baseball/usatpoll.htm

[Cdizzle]

Wow. This went way better than I was expecting. Anybody else thinking this week is the last one like it before the polls really punish us?

[KC Shox]

Ping Baseball dropped us significantly from 8 to 13.

http://www.pingbaseball.com/rankings.php

[WSUwatcher]

Ping?

KC, not to disparage them -- 13th is probably more realistic for the Shocks at this point than some of the other rankings -- but what the heck is Ping Baseball, and has anyone other than you ever heard of them?

[KC Shox]

Re: Ping?

KC, not to disparage them -- 13th is probably more realistic for the Shocks at this point than some of the other rankings -- but what the heck is Ping Baseball, and has anyone other than you ever heard of them?

It's not a bad site, I like the layout and the information on there is pretty decent. Sure it's an obscure site, but take awhile to peruse it, I think you'll like it.

Oh, and we fell 3 spots to 11 in the NCBWA poll.

http://www.sportswriters.net/ncbwa/news/2008/poll080428.html