Also had no idea that Iowa was #1 in the B10 standings but might not get an at large bid to the tourney. Only in B10 baseball.
Nebraska golf question for you fellas. Would love some direction from local experts, if possible. A colleague and I are hosting a couple customers at Landmand in late August for one of their stay and play packages. We’d love to pair that up with a round in Omaha as we’re all flying in there. We have the opportunity to play at Arbor Links or Lost Rail….any preference or insight on either club? Appreciate the help/input in advance.
Haven’t played either, but have only heard good things about Lost Rail. Are you staying in town or coming from the airport? They’re both about 40-50 min from the airport but in different directions.
Coming from the airport. Have the option to stay on-site at Arbor Links. Not sure if Lost Rail has the option. Either way, I know we’re looking at a 2 hr + drive to Landmand the next day.
I don’t think Lost Rail has lodging, but there are plenty of hotels in Gretna/Omaha. Don’t think you can go wrong with either option, should be a great couple of days as long as the weather complies.
Oh for sure. I’m originally from Cedar Falls, IA and guys are joining from Houston, West Des Moines, and Philadelphia so most of us are used to crazy, warm weather golf. The Philly guy is the only one I’m worried about.
Haven’t played Lost Rail but heard it’s awesome. Arbor is really improved since it’s been moved to a Dormie course. You won’t go wrong either way.
Yeah I figured as much. Scottie’s BBQ down there on 5th at Central Park is awesome if you’re still around. He’s a great dude too.
Wow, SELA smokes one to left, LF makes a good throw into 3rd but it hits the runner sliding and bounces away. Runner scores. 5-4 SELA B5 with runner on 3rd and 1 out.
Not that it matters but this doesn’t seem like a great draw, unless they manage to go 2-0. MSU has one of the best pitchers in the league, then Oregon is Top 10. Although knowing Nebraska we’d win these 2 then get blown out in the bracket play.
This new format seems incredibly dumb. If all 3 teams in a pool finish 1-1, the higher seed just advances. So if we are 0-1 and Oregon is 1-0 going into Friday, the game will literally be meaningless. Even if we beat Oregon, they still advance. Is this correct?
Yes, that’s right and a very dumb way to do a bracket. It’s a lot like the conference basketball tournaments mid majors had insane bracket layouts to give their top teams the best possible chance of winning. It all flies in the face of my understanding of post season play being just getting hot at the right time and every game possibly being the last.
The more I look at that bracket the dumber it gets. Oregon, the 1 seed, may have to win 4 straight days, but the 6 and 8 seeds get a 2 day break.
If we were a high seed I’d love the format but we are never going to be a high seed so this format is the woat and we should go independent in b-ball (west coast)
also I’m on vacation in a far off place and the food is somewhat adventurous. Can’t help but remember some of our goat husk city food takes. 1.) “why would you put cheese on a burger? A burger is good it doesn’t need to get weird with cheese” (poster is now a local neb celebrity) 2.) “noodles no thanks I ain’t light in the loafers” (a poster from Ilolwa)
Man these BTN announcers are really carrying the water for B10 baseball lol Talking about how exciting this format is and how deep the conference is since there hasn’t been a B2B winner in awhile. Then about how talented the teams are and how it makes it a challenge to select an all conference team. Now this guy just said something about how often you see guys develop over their career to end up top draft picks.
28 B10 or B10 signees drafted last year. The SEC averaged about 7 per team. Iowa Western when I was playing was probably averaging 1-3 per year
High socks are fine but these clowns wearing capris instead of regular pants has to cost the baseball team 4-5 wins a year.