College Baseball Thoughts Heading Into The 2012 Season

Some Things I’m Thinking About…. By College Baseball 360 Editor Sean Stires February is almost over, and that means just one thing to college baseball coaches, players and fans alike ? it?s ping time! The season starts tomorrow and every team in the country, with maybe the exception of Arizona State (see below), starts with a clean slate. Teams from Connecticut to Cal, Michigan (State if you prefer) to Miami, Oregon to Orlando (with both Stetson and UCF nearby), Tennessee to Texas, and nearly 300 points in between all have their sights set on Omaha. South Carolina is the two-time defending champ, but a stocked Florida team is the unanimous No. 1 and wants to dethrone its SEC rival. Plenty of other non-SEC teams like Stanford, North Carolina and Texas A&M to name a few are all legitimate preseason threats to the Gamecock throne. Before they get to the promised land though, they all have to navigate their own 56-game regular season gauntlets along the road to Omaha. Most of them, like Arkansas-Little Rock and New Mexico last year, won?t have the regular season credentials for even the NCAA field of 64, but they?ll get their shot if they can [...]

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