10 Quick-hit observations of Super Regionals so far.

1-Too bad they couldn’t start the Super Regionals over, all on Friday.

It’s almost unfair that Clemson, Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Cal State Fullerton will get so much extra rest by winning their series’ 2-0 and watching today’s games pushing the best-of-three to Monday. Advantage, that side of the bracket.

2- Is Jemile Weeks the poster boy for the effects of the aluminum bat or what?

The diminutive Frosh phenom for Miami has uncorked (no pun intended) three home runs, two in today’s 7-0 win over Ole Miss. Okay, if he keeps his home run hot streak running through the wood-bat Cape Cod League this summer, I’ll retract this entry.

3- Most impressive offense: North Carolina
Enough with the Tar Heels infamous arm corps, the ping crew made minced-meat of Alabama’s vaunted pitching staff to the tune of 19 runs in two games. Chad Flack being the one man that will haunt the Tide all off-season, going 6-for-11 with seven RBI, including the game-winning gut-shot on Saturday, ending Bama’s season.

4- Most impressive pitching: Cal State Fullerton

Mizzou should’ve scored more, going 2-for-15 with runners in scoring position on Friday, but Lauren Gagnier’s near-no-hitter on Saturday is a good sign that this arm crew is ready to make amends for last season as the Titans head to Omaha.

5- Most impressive team: Oregon State

After Stanford ran roughshod through the good staffs of Texas and North Carolina State last weekend, they ran into a buzzsaw of mound-mates in Dallas Buck and Jonah Nickerson, who combined to give up just three runs and 13 hits in almost 16 innings of work. The Beaver offense wasn’t too shabby either, handing the Cardinal the worst loss in program history tonight, 15-zip.

6- How do you know college baseball still has a ways to go in the big-money picture of things? The TV commercials.

Did you notice, particularly on Friday and Saturday on ESPNU, there were a lot of NCAA-sponsored commercials, along with Home Shopping Network-like spots like the Ballzy golf ball cleaning gadget, the Total Gym spots with Christie Brinkley and Chuck Norris and Jimmy Connors’ instructional tennis DVD ads? Those kind of ads are usually bought on late-night TV, when there is cheaper media buys, so you know these college baseball games aren’t pulling big-time advertising money. On Sunday (and on ESPN2) I finally saw more big-money-based spots from products like Lexus, Toyota, Coke, DIRECTV and a few movie promos. So more high-profile advertisers were finally buying some space.

7- How do you know when it’s the post-season? The TV announcers make it painfully obvious that they don’t follow college baseball.

The announcers continually butcher names and statistics. In the UNC series alone, Jeff Brantley several times called coach Mike Fox, "Cox". Gary Thorne referred to starter Daniel Bard as "Baird" 2 or 3 times at the start of the game and he never got the correct name of UNC's pinch runner in the ninth inning. The runner was Matt Spencer, who he initially called Mike Facchinei (who is a rarely used pitcher), and then corrected himself by pointing out (again incorrectly) that the runner was Mike McKee, who I don't even believe is on the post-season roster. Don't these guys get programs with the rosters on them? And I’m sure more butchering is on the way with Harold Reynolds set to do some games in Omaha.

8- On the other hand, Kyle Peterson and Jerry Kindall are great, great commentators.

As far as saying the right thing at the right time and just plain having impeccable knowledge of the game, these guys rule. Peterson is more refined, more slick, if you will, but you have to love Kindall’s style and knowledge. He may not be error-free when he’s on-camera, but in-game is when he works his magic.

9- Three teams to watch for next year: Stanford, Ole Miss, Miami and South Carolina

All four of these teams played a lot of Freshmen this weekend. Stanford is the only one that is currently eliminated, while the Rebs, Canes and Cocks still have a shot at Omaha tomorrow. Miami’s first-year guys carried the offense, especially the aforementioned Weeks. And Ole Miss has some potentially great young arms. Even though they got knocked around a bit, I liked the potential I saw from Brett Bukvich and Cody Satterwhite today.

10- How do you know Oregon State is a serious contender this time around? They didn’t dogpile after beating Stanford tonight.

Much like when Texas won last year’s Super Regional win at Ole Miss and Cal State Fullerton’s ’04 win over Tulane, the Beavers didn’t dogpile after beating Stanford tonight. They acted like they knew they’d be going back to Omaha again and just slapped high-fives with each other. Watch out for the Beavers in the CWS this year.