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NC State has one kid from South Florida. We have 22. NC State is 23-1 and just swept us. My point is even stronger now than when I made it the first time.

There are high school freshmen playing JV baseball all over the country who know where to throw the ball or how to hit cutoffs. If you can't do it as a college sophomore, then you just can't do it. And we continue to recruit a bunch of guys who can't do it.

We've used 18 position players, and Jenkins has the 8th most PA's on the team. They didn't "take a flyer" on him. They had every intention of using him every day.

Don't recruit lazy, south Florida travel ball heroes. Find kids who can play and who want to play.

Toral didn't hit as a junior or as a senior in high school. We fell in love with his body when he was a sophomore.

"90% of the team", for three years running, hasn't been good enough to make a 64-team tournament. Lazy recruiting.

The evidence is how poorly we play defense. Guys don't know where to go with the ball, make terrible throws, can't hit cuts, etc. That's because that is how they played before they arrived on campus. Lazy recruiting, period. These guys are JAGS. Kids from North Carolina, who actually know how to...

Tony Jenkins is a perfect example. That kid is just an athlete. He's not a baseball player. Yet he graded a 9.5 according to Perfect Game. Read his Perfect Game profile. It's all about being projectable. "Projects well physically". "Raw arm strength still developing". "Will need to continue to...

Except that you haven't provided one shred of evidence that I am wrong. I know how these guys recruit. I'm not guessing.

Im not switching anything, newbie. I'm trying to simplify it so that you understand.

There are many kids on travel ball teams who are great bodies with great measurables who can’t really play baseball. MLB drafts a ton of them every year. I’m not sure why this is an argument. It’s not debatable. It’s just like when Coker would recruit based on website profiles or recruiting a...

So you can’t follow a thread. Thanks for confirming.

You’re missing the point. We know that every D1 player plays travel ball. But there are travel ball players who show up to perform for scouts, and there are players who truly know and play the game of baseball. We take the showcase heroes who grade out with top scores. We don’t invest the time...

I know that threads can be hard to follow, but I was simply responding to someone who mentioned Florida.

Look at what Vandy did to Florida this weekend.

I might share that sentiment if DiMare was new to the university. But he was here when the program was driven into a ditch.

Right now the bullpen's only role, unfortunately, is to keep it close in case we accidentally put a rally together. They won't be expected to hold too many leads.

June of 2001.

Because they don't expect you to do that kind of thing in travel ball.

We couldn't throw the guy out at the plate, even though he was just touching third when we fielded it. Then we couldn't throw the ball in the air to second base. Then we couldn't knock down that bad throw even though there was a runner on third. Complete clown show.