2009 Schedule

[Bama Baseball 1]

I see a few schools are beginning to post their 2009 Baseball Schedules. Has anyone heard when Bama will announce theirs?

 

[Diamond Tide]

Here's a look at some of the non-conference teams we will be playing :

Southeast Missouri (Season Opener 3 game series)
Nicholls State (2 game series)
Illinois-Chicago (4 game series-DH on Saturday)
Troy (Home & Away)
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Corpus Christi, TX Tournament)
Texas-Pan American (Corpus Christi, TX Tournament)
4th team TBA (Corpus Christi, TX Tournament)
Samford (Home & Away)
Alabama A&M (2 games series)
UAB (Home & Away)
Southeastern Louisiana
Mississippi Valley State (2 game series - JoJo's Favorite)
South Alabama (Home & Away)

SEC : South Carolina dropped off the schedule

Home SEC games :

Georgia
Tennessee
LSU
Kentucky
Arkansas

Diamond Tide :biga:

 

[Tider in Illinois]

So far I have us playing
At Florida, March 27-29
Tennessee, April 3-5
LSU, April 10-12
Arkansas, May 8-10
At Auburn, May 14-16

These are the only SEC series, I can find on the internet set so far.
Hope this helps. Can't wait for the season to get here.
RTR
TII

 

[JoJoforHeisman]

Mississippi Valley State (2 game series - JoJo's Favorite)


Diamond Tide :biga:

 

[crimsonkelly]

The tournament in Texas, seriously, why do we play in it. We can't we get in one that has some bigger name teams in it? If we could, it might help in RPI, recruiting, etc.

 

[bamamick]

It does look like soft scheduling. I think that the Nebraska home and away was one of the coolest things we have done lately and made for a tournament-like atmosphere in the SEC pre-season. I'd like to see us do some more of that, and I really can't see why we couldn't. Bloody South Alabama seems to be able to get Notre Dame, Michigan, whomever (Alabama!) to come visit them. Can't see why the Tide couldn't do the same.

rtr

 

[JoJoforHeisman]

The Tournament Selection Committee has revealed in recent years that it is actually better for a team to play a strong non-conference opponent and lose than it is to beat up on a bunch of hapless cream puffs. Should we find ourselves "on the bubble" at the end of next season, this schedule is only going to work against us (hopefully that won't be an issue).

A joke of a non-conference schedule like this one places even more pressure on success in SEC games. Finishing 7th or 8th in the conference likely will not cut it. In 2006, we had the 5th-strongest schedule in the nation, highlighted by non-conference series against Nebraska and Winthrop. Last year's schedule received a rather surprising boost from playing Dallas Baptist, who actually finished above us in the RPI. As for the 2009 slate, this is how our non-conferences foes fared in the RPI:
Troy - 74
South Alabama - 99
Southeastern Louisiana - 105
Samford - 124
UAB - 132
Illinois Chicago - 154
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi - 163
Southeast Missouri State - 206
Texas Pan-American - 242
Mississippi Valley State - 268
Alabama A&M - 293 (out of 297)