Originally published at: https://pistolsfiringblog.com/josh-holliday-goes-off-on-college-baseball-teams-canceling-games-to-avoid-rpi-penalties/
Some RPI-altering tactics appear to be afoot in the college baseball world. Following Oklahoma State’s 12-7 victory at Oral Roberts on Tuesday night, OSU coach Josh Holliday bluntly gave his thoughts on teams canceling games late in the year seemingly to dodge those games messing with a team’s RPI. These quotes come via The Stillwegian’s Daniel Allen. Amid the plethora of RPI-based midweek cancellations around college baseball, #OkState coach Josh Holliday called for the system to be patched. “That pisses me off, and if we’re gonna let people (and teams) manipulate a system, then the system sucks, and it needs to be fixed.” pic.twitter.com/g8YGwt30h8 — Daniel Allen (@bydanielallen25) May 13, 2026 “I said this on the radio show, and I don’t really care who hears it or who sees it — the number of college baseball teams canceling their games today because of the RPI implications of playing a team beneath them in the RPI and the subsequent risk of penalty had you lost that game or the penalty had you won that game, I think is just an unbelievably bad look,” Holliday said. “I think the coaches that agree to do that should look in the mirror and ask…
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Easy. Count a cancellation by a team as a forfeit. Goes down as a loss. That’ll end it quick.
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Get 'em, Josh!!!
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Not that simple. The ORU’s, SEMO’s, IttyBitty U’s of the world need these games. Youll need something like that to be endorsed by the Universities. It would never get agreed to.