[personal] [Husker] Baseball Question

[Tony Lambert]

Also Northern Colorado is an independent. So they don't have to save their 
ace for a weekend series.

Tony Lambert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Skylar Dodds" <Sklarbodds at cox.net>
To: <husker at tssi.com>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: [personal] [Husker] Baseball Question


> Hello Husker Fans,
>
> Great question.  As someone already mentioned, it does help boost
> their RPI and a win against a top tier program is good publicity.  For
> recruiting, makes the coach look good, etc.  Typically you throw your
> ace against the toughest team you play that week.  For example, NU
> threw Joba on Saturday and Dorn on Friday very early in the season
> this year because they played a dormat on Friday and Rice on Saturday.
>
> In addition, Northern Colorado was off for the weekend and didn't play
> again until the Tuesday following, thus no need to rest their
> pitchers.
>
> -- 
> Go Skers,
> Skylar                            mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net
>
>
>>>Especially when you're throwing your number 4 starter versus their ace.
> MG> I have a question for someone in the know.  It seems that every time
> MG> Nebraska loses or has problems with a mid-week opponent,
> MG> I hear the above statement or something similar.   Why do the mid-week 
> foes
> MG> always throw their aces at us?  Don't these teams
> MG> have week-end games of their own to save their aces for?
>
> MG> Merlin Green
>
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