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Definitely part of it, when they saw the opening for baseball, and really it doesn't require that much funding for a top notch baseball program, the big state schools pounced. I've always just assumed they got kickbacks from the state. UNC, NCSU both redid their entire parks right after this...

Well as a former aau/babe ruth coach, I loved coaches coming and asking our opinions. I tried my best to sell Miami to kids Haha. It wasn't near as bad as aau basketball coaching being asked to recruit the kids for them, I get what you're saying though. He shouldn't have to travel very far to...

In regards to Morris, the 2011 class could have been the best of all time. I mean we knew we wouldn't get any of them, but my gosh that class was loaded. That set him back for sure, very Cokerish.

We had kids say they chose UF over us because of it, I distinctly remember a couple of top kids saying it. I agree, it was up to us to figure it out and we didn't, until now. Vandy showed the way I'm guessing, let's hope we got it fixed, our recruiting says it is possible.

It was a little troll, won't deny that part of it.

They put the funds in their program when they saw what was going on. Another kickback from the state probably.

Somehow teams were able to skirt that for quite a few years, no clue how. basically thru 97 that had no impact. Almost exactly at the same time, all of the elite private schools fell off. Us, USC, Stanford, Rice still had a nice run, Vandy, Gt even dipped, it was a private school game sans ASU...

He had to sell these kids sure, options became limited and kids wanted to stay out in the west coast, would be my guess. I mean USC and Stanford got pretty much anybody they wanted out that way back then. This did exactly what it was intended to do.

Almost all big state schools emerged when this happened Jagr, that wasn't a coincidence. UNC, UF, UVA, a bunch of big ten schools are now baseball schools, unheard of when I played.

Because they couldn't afford USC and Stanford. That is how these schools emerged, think you are missing that crucial point.

Nah man, Vandy winning it all killed that a while back, there is no denying it hurt a bunch of programs and helped a bunch of others though. When we got Heyward and that group I thought that was our new approach. Money, pitch the private school ed, etc. That didn't last long lol.

Or at least elite private school teams suffered.

I had heard that Vandy was on to something that other private schools were now copying. That is what I was told by a few of Rice's athletic guys, that they found some loopholes years back. I don't know anything about all that, I know they gave a decided advantage to state schools and almost all...

And then you see the crowd last night, only color you would see would be the **** marks from their shoes walking to the stadium. yeah lol at their bs excuse for diversity and women's sports, title ix, all that nonsense. It was the start of all this participation trophy **** in society. Who knew...

And all of your usual top ranked private schools seemed to fall off the college baseball map for a minute, even Vandy did back then if I recall. They were the first to "regain" some plight. USC hasn't recovered. We are almost there, Stanford seems to have rebounded.

Two things, the partial scholarship took a while for private schools to work around, thus starting the trend of losing top recruits to the holes and turds, and secondly, it is clear the recruiting under Morris took a hit, for whatever reason. The talent we lost to the draft plays a part too...

I jinxed Del Castillo man, it is on me. He has a HUGE future, last night was one game I hope eats at him for a while, pushes him to mega star.

You saw the full on whiteness of MSU last night, of course anyone that don't look like them are thugs. Sec coattail bottom feeders.

Man these dudes are going to feel this one for a while. You can't ask for more opps.

OK. lets frigging do this ****.