(04-12-2016 05:15 PM)cr11owl Wrote:  It's pretty interesting when you read our press release how great it makes our recruiting class sound with honors... But when you compare it to the All-Texas Region teams from perfect game we only have one first team commit (Canterino). Once you get down to 3rd team you're looking at commits to Incarnate Word, etc...

Compare that 1st team for UT (9), A&M (7), Texas Tech (7), TCU (4), Arkansas (2), OSU (2), UH (2) and you can see our recruiting problem. I'm not sure if we've ever matched UT and A&M for top line recruits but someone like Walt would probably remember the early 2000s rankings.

Worth pointing out that traditionally, the larger public schools lose more recruits to the draft than Rice does. It feels like Rice has been surprised by losing a few recruits to MLB in the last ~5 years that maybe we weren't losing prior to that. I could be wrong, that is just anectdotal on my part. Also, lots of different reasons that might be happening more, not just a reflection of Rice.