Recapping all of the action around the country for Weekend #2

We start by having Story Time With Jack about his experience broadcasting the Jacksonville Classic Tournament and gives a run down on Ohio State, Alabama, Coastal, and NC State.

Next we bounce between the Round Rock Tournament, and the Arlington tournament where Oklahoma and Kansas State surprise as winners.

Then we talk about other top story lines across the country and then finish up with Mid Major Top 25 Talk.

Lastly we do a Midweek Preview and pick the 6 series for Weekend #3 Series Pick'em contest.

We start off the show by introducing our newest hire, Noah Bieniek. He will be doing most of our gambling content, but also will do a lot of blogging and backend work for us. Give him a follow on X (NoahB77_)

After that, we talk about the biggest moments from the midweek

Then we preview the 3 big tournaments this weekend and pick our winners for each (Globe Life, Round Rock, Jacksonville)

Lastly we make our Weekend Series Pick'em Picks

San Diego vs Arizona

Irvine vs Texas Tech

LA Tech vs Southern Miss

USF vs Georgia Southern

UNC vs ECU

Xavier vs Liberty

Coverage of all of the top storylines and moments from Opening Weekend across the country Teams that surpised us (both good and bad) Players that stood out and dominated Who passed the eyeball test? Mid Major Top 25 Midweek Preview

Ben, Dimitri, and Jack pick 3 favorites and a dark horse to win the Golden Spikes Award each. (snake draft) Then they each pick their 8 teams who are going to make the College World Series in Omaha (snake draft) Lastly they make their Weekend Series Pick'em picks for these series: -Northeastern vs Charlotte -Illinois State vs Western Kentucky -Texas Tech vs UNC -Missouri State vs Sam Houston -West Virginia vs Jacksonville We want to thank our sponsors who support us, and we ask that you support them as well: homefieldapparel.com gametimesidekicks.com Also, it's not too late to sign up for our Patreon Weekend Series Pick'em competition: Here's the link! https://www.patreon.com/11Point7

It's plain and simple folks, Jack, Ben, and Dimitri are each picking who they think will win all 29 college baseball conferences (regular season)

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FIRST HOUR

-Conference Winner Odds we look at include: ASUN, Big East, Big South, Ivy, Missouri Valley, OVC, SEC, SunBelt, WCC, and WAC)

-Lastly we also go thru all 25 teams in our Mid Major Top 25 and explain why each team is slotted where

We start off the show announcing that we extended our partnership with Homefield Apparel for the 2025 season, and we are doing it bigger and better this year. Next we talk about some insanely hard non-conference schedules (Xavier, San Diego, and Lipscomb) Then we talk about the NIL factor in the game and the differences between NIL and Collectives. Lastly we go thru some preseason odds to win these conferences (American, ACC, Big 12, Big 10, Big West, CAA) Next week we will preview the rest of the preseason odds to win these conferences. (CUSA, Missouri Valley, SEC, SunBelt, and the Golden Spikes)

We are back for our 7th season of covering college baseball! 

This is just a fun intro episode where we catch up after the ABCA Convention. 

Then we talk about our schedule and plan for the next 3.5 weeks before the season starts. 

Lastly, Jack breaks some news about a new job opportunity and we talk about the future of 11Point7. 

We spend the first part of the episode talking about the hiring of our 1st ever podcast guest, Mike Earley, as the Head Coach of the Texas A&M Aggies. We talk about how he is going to continue the culture and momentum they have built and how happy the players are that he was hired. 

Then we briefly talk about the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team and what they are doing and how it works. 

Lastly we go over the best moments from the 2024 season. 

The first 30 minutes of the podcast consists of recapping the Texas hiring of Jim Schlossnagle and we give our thoughts and input on the situation from both the Aggies side and the Longhorns side. Key word.... JOB SECURITY The next hour is spent on candidates for the A&M job. Is it going to be one of the 5 names that D1 Baseball listed (OConnor, Heefner, Sully, Bakich, Link), or is it going to be the mystery name that is floating around? Or could it be one of the assistant coaches that left for UT?? Ben and Jack give 10 names that would be awesome to see at A&M for entertainment purposes that also make some sense. Just a fun segment.