canesproponent
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Hey Mark,
I looked at Morris' tenure between 2009 and 2018. See below. If you exclude the past two seasons, he was still a top-10 coach in the game. Also, with hindsight, his losses were all to World Series bound teams. If they seeded baseball back then like they do basketball, the results would undoubtedly be markedly different. Between 2009 and 2010, Morris produced top-14 teams and his "benefit" was playing markedly higher ranked teams. They also pitted his #11 team against a #14 team. ALL of his losses were to CWS bound teams...........:
2009 - RPI #10 --> Lost to Florida the #8 team in the country
2010 - RPI #14 --> Lost to Florida the #2 team in the country
2011 - RPI of #23 --> Lost to Florida the #1 team in the country
2012 - RPI of #16 --> Lost to Stony Brook who went on to beat LSU (#8) in the Supers.
2013 - RPI of #18 --> Lost to Louisville the #16 team in the country. Louisville also advanced to the CWS by beating Vanderbilt the #2 team on basis of RPI.
2014 - RPI of #11 --> Lost to Texas Tech the #14 team in the country, who then advanced to CWS.
2015 - RPI of #4 --> CWS
2016 - RPI of #3 --> CWS
I looked at Morris' tenure between 2009 and 2018. See below. If you exclude the past two seasons, he was still a top-10 coach in the game. Also, with hindsight, his losses were all to World Series bound teams. If they seeded baseball back then like they do basketball, the results would undoubtedly be markedly different. Between 2009 and 2010, Morris produced top-14 teams and his "benefit" was playing markedly higher ranked teams. They also pitted his #11 team against a #14 team. ALL of his losses were to CWS bound teams...........:
2009 - RPI #10 --> Lost to Florida the #8 team in the country
2010 - RPI #14 --> Lost to Florida the #2 team in the country
2011 - RPI of #23 --> Lost to Florida the #1 team in the country
2012 - RPI of #16 --> Lost to Stony Brook who went on to beat LSU (#8) in the Supers.
2013 - RPI of #18 --> Lost to Louisville the #16 team in the country. Louisville also advanced to the CWS by beating Vanderbilt the #2 team on basis of RPI.
2014 - RPI of #11 --> Lost to Texas Tech the #14 team in the country, who then advanced to CWS.
2015 - RPI of #4 --> CWS
2016 - RPI of #3 --> CWS