Just watched Mercer whip ETSU 10-3 on ESPN+ without any issues…other than it took the Bears 11 innings to get their prolific Offense untracked.
Don’t worry about SEC & ACC.
In the (sad & completely unnecessary) absence of Furman Baseball, just pick a SoCon Team and adopt ‘em.
Not surprisingly, FUBeAR chose the Mercer Bears…but when the Ursine Orange got knocked out too early from the (completely unnecessarily) Covid-limited SoCon Tourney last year, FUBeAR adopted WCU (cuz they wore purple) and had a great time at the Tourney. So fun seeing ‘my Team’ send the Tearyers back to SparkleCity boo-hoo’ing on Saturday night, but it was sad my Purple Cats couldn’t overcome Samford.
FUBeAR’s new college sports outlook…
ENJOY what you can, when you can, and hang on tight…cuz the whole system could crater at any time…or become so unrecognizable that it holds no interest for people that just aren’t that into cheering for their favorite color laundry.
NCAA MANUAL
20.10.1 ...intercollegiate athletics...competition in amateur athletics…
20.10.1.2 …maintaining a line of demarcation between student-athletes who participate in the Collegiate Model and athletes competing in the professional model