dbackjon
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RE: College Baseball stunner: Jackson State beats UL-Lafayette
Men's Super Regional Field Set:
Breakdown by Conference:
Big 12 - 4 teams
American - 2 teams
SEC - 2 teams
ACC - 2 teams
Pac 12 - 1 team
Big West - 1 team
Atlantic Sun - 1 team
CAA - 1 team
Sun Belt - 1 team
WCC - 1 team
Breakdown by Football Classification:
P5 - 9 teams
G5 - 3 teams
FCS/No Football - 4 teams
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Cajunman02
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RE: College Baseball stunner: Jackson State beats UL-Lafayette
(06-03-2014 12:53 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote: Geaux Cajuns!
The Miss State connection may prove to be sadly prophetic since that's the most likely destination for the FB coach after another big year.
Highly unlikely Hud leaves for Mississippi State. You should have seen him and his wife at the game last night. Decked out in RED and loving every minute of it.
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RE: College Baseball stunner: Jackson State beats UL-Lafayette
(06-03-2014 11:39 AM)Wedge Wrote: (06-03-2014 09:19 AM)arkstfan Wrote: There has been little talk of anyone wanting to add more full rides in baseball. Every scholarship added means another women's sport grant that has to be added. Baseball just doesn't generate enough interest that many P5 are going to be pushing to increase rides.
... you can't fix the weather for Minnesota, Michigan, and Ohio to help produce more ready to play Division I baseball kids coming out of high school.
Those are the two issues there. The talent pool is always going to be much deeper in places where kids develop their skills playing travel ball on year-round teams. You only have 11.7 scholarship equivalents to divide up among 25 players, so good luck getting elite players from Florida or California to play college baseball in Minnesota when their families will have to pay 75% of their college costs to play up there. Those kids can stay nearby and -- as we see this year -- they don't need to play baseball at a football factory; you can advance in the NCAA tournament at places closer to home whether that's Pepperdine or UL-Lafayette or College of Charleston.
A coach who wants to build a baseball program in a place outside those talent pools has to work his azz off to find talented players, like the coaches at Oregon State and Indiana have done. It's not like coaching football at Ohio State where 5-star kids send you their videotapes and beg you to offer them a scholarship and all you have to do is compete with a small handful of other power programs for the best kids while the other 120 FBS teams make do with 2 and 3 star players.
Had lunch today with a friend, his son's 10 year old team has played 44 games and they aren't playing in the elite tournament circuit where the 10 year old teams are pushing up to around 60 games at this point.
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HeartOfDixie
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RE: College Baseball stunner: Jackson State beats UL-Lafayette
(06-03-2014 01:01 PM)Cajunman02 Wrote: (06-03-2014 12:53 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote: Geaux Cajuns!
The Miss State connection may prove to be sadly prophetic since that's the most likely destination for the FB coach after another big year.
Highly unlikely Hud leaves for Mississippi State. You should have seen him and his wife at the game last night. Decked out in RED and loving every minute of it.
It would be a shame but his current devotion doesn't preclude the possibility of his leaving.
It's about money and opportunity to win a NC. Miss St offers one of those.
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arkstfan
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RE: College Baseball stunner: Jackson State beats UL-Lafayette
(06-03-2014 01:01 PM)Cajunman02 Wrote: (06-03-2014 12:53 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote: Geaux Cajuns!
The Miss State connection may prove to be sadly prophetic since that's the most likely destination for the FB coach after another big year.
Highly unlikely Hud leaves for Mississippi State. You should have seen him and his wife at the game last night. Decked out in RED and loving every minute of it.
What his wife wears doesn't impress me much but I'd hope Hud could get a better job that Miss St.
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RE: College Baseball stunner: Jackson State beats UL-Lafayette
(06-03-2014 01:01 PM)dbackjon Wrote: Men's Super Regional Field Set:
Breakdown by Conference:
Big 12 - 4 teams
American - 2 teams
SEC - 2 teams
ACC - 2 teams
Pac 12 - 1 team
Big West - 1 team
Atlantic Sun - 1 team
CAA - 1 team
Sun Belt - 1 team
WCC - 1 team
Breakdown by Football Classification:
P5 - 9 teams
G5 - 3 teams
FCS/No Football - 4 teams
10 conferences represented. Can't complain too much
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