Otis 83 Posted November 14, 2024 Posted November 14, 2024 On 11/7/2024 at 4:12 PM, Bogus Smith said: Dallas Baptist travels to Tulsa for a weekend series on Feb 28 - Mar 2 with times TBA. Very happy to see DBU back on the schedule. Hopefully this means we have a return trip to DBU in 2026. Wish there was a trip to Texas sometime in 2025.
Old Titan Posted November 14, 2024 Posted November 14, 2024 Arguably shaping into one of the best ORU non-con schedules ever; other than Arkansas-Pine Bluff everything looks highly competitive. Looking forward to it! 1
Bogus Smith Posted November 14, 2024 Author Posted November 14, 2024 Let's hope we don't make UAPB a competitive weekend. 1
Texasgrip Posted November 15, 2024 Posted November 15, 2024 6 hours ago, Old Titan said: Arguably shaping into one of the best ORU non-con schedules ever; other than Arkansas-Pine Bluff everything looks highly competitive. Looking forward to it! I'm not looking past basketball season, I'm not looking past basketball season, I'm not looking past basketball season... C'mon guys, help convince me! 1
Bogus Smith Posted November 15, 2024 Author Posted November 15, 2024 1 hour ago, Texasgrip said: I'm not looking past basketball season, I'm not looking past basketball season, I'm not looking past basketball season... C'mon guys, help convince me! The weather is warmer after basketball season. Unfortunately, we are 90 days (and cold winter days) away from the oasis called baseball.
Bogus Smith Posted December 6, 2024 Author Posted December 6, 2024 The baseball schedule is out: #ORUBase Reveals 2025 Schedule! Have to play in Minneapolis before April. That should be a road trip to remember. 1
TrueBlue82 Posted December 6, 2024 Posted December 6, 2024 1 minute ago, Bogus Smith said: The baseball schedule is out: #ORUBase Reveals 2025 Schedule! Have to play in Minneapolis before April. That should be a road trip to remember. I think we had the entire non-conference schedule pegged except for the Southern Indiana series. Good sleuthing, message board team! 2
Otis 83 Posted January 3 Posted January 3 On 11/14/2024 at 7:28 PM, Texasgrip said: I'm not looking past basketball season, I'm not looking past basketball season, I'm not looking past basketball season... I AM looking past basketball season, I AM looking past basketball season, I AM looking past basketball season... 3
Texasgrip Posted January 3 Posted January 3 5 hours ago, Otis 83 said: I AM looking past basketball season, I AM looking past basketball season, I AM looking past basketball season... Ha! Well as this point, I'm not going anywhere near JLJ until the temperatures increase by about 25 degrees! 2
Bogus Smith Posted January 28 Author Posted January 28 This is worth the time to read to get to know what we have coming for the 2025 season. Less than three weeks before the first pitch, fellas!! ORU Golden Eagles 2025 Season Preview 3
theeagleman5 Posted January 28 Posted January 28 Oh man...TheEagleman is so ready for some baseball....sounds like ORU could be very good by the time we get to the Summit League schedule... 1
TrueBlue82 Posted February 13 Posted February 13 Posted this previously in the UAPB at ORU thread, but realized that it really belonged in the 2025 Baseball Schedule topic. The Summit League has a "staggered" schedule, where each school plays every other school at least once, and three of the five other schools twice. This definitely gives an advantage to some schools compared to the others, based upon who they do (or don't) play. I don't know how the League determines the three extra teams on each school's schedule, but I was intrigued that only ONE team drew the short straw of having ALL of its "extra" games against teams earning a first-place vote in the pre-season poll. And, of course, that one team is.... ORU (which plays UST, Omaha, and NDSU twice). But, it gets even MORE interesting, in that ORU not only has the toughest schedule of all, but the rank of toughest to easiest schedule is EXACTLY in the order of the top six teams from the pre-season poll (ORU with the toughest, UST is second, and down the line to UNC having the easiest schedule). Now, seriously, the schedule was (obviously) produced well before the pre-season poll was conducted, so how did the schedule-makers design a staggered schedule of perfect "parity"??? The statistical chances of this happening are incredibly low. For those curious, I calculated "toughest to easiest" using a 5,4,3,2,1 approach based upon the pre-season poll, with each team excluding themselves from the equation (ie, ORU would rank as a "5" for all opponents, while UST would rank as a "5" for ORU's schedule). Here are the three "extra" games for each team, with relative ranking and total: ORU UST 5 Omaha 4 NDSU 3 12 UST ORU 5 Omaha 4 SDSU 2 11 Omaha ORU 5 UST 4 UNC 1 10 NDSU ORU 5 SDSU 2 UNC 1 8 SDSU UST 4 NDSU 2 UNC 1 7 UNC Omaha 3 NDSU 2 SDSU 1 6 I don't present this as some kind of conspiracy theory of the League against ORU (although I do think it is "interesting" that ORU was "randomly" assigned the toughest schedule). Rather, I am very intrigued by the perfect symmetry of the schedule and the pre-season polls. Does anyone have any insights into how the staggered schedule was determined by the league office? Inquiring minds want to know! I suppose the main point of this post is this...if ORU is successful in winning another regular season Summit title, they will have definitely earned it! Quote
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