Buzzards roster made up of mainly Mississippi players

[ShotgunDawg]

The truth is that USM & South Alabama have better position players this year than MSU, LSU, Vandy, & Ole Miss.

The current difficulty that power programs are having in college baseball is that they are having to recruit kids so early (8th grade or 9th grade year) that they are naturally (human nature) committing & gravitating towards the more physically mature kids. Then once the non-physically mature kids (Wallner, Travis Swaggerty, etc) become good players their JR or SR years of high school, the power programs have no scholarship money left to give them or have stopped the scouting process because the class is full.

Canny will have top 5 recruiting classes at MSU, but, if most of those top recruits get drafted in the top 3 rounds & go pro, while USM & others are taking the late bloomers with real tools, then those schools will continue have better position players. LSU is terrible this year & MSU's recruiting class is about to get absolutely demolished in draft. Canny better learn to go out & find some under the radar, non-profile, quality position players that can impact the baseball but either due to speed or lack of projectable power don't appeal to pro-scouts, or like LSU, MSU will be stuck with very few quality position players. Think about this: Vandy is terrible this year but have what was 3 #1 ranked recruiting classes on their roster.

We all cheer that we are getting these big time recruits that won't make it to campus, but, if they are preventing us from being able to take late bloomers or we are stopping the scouting process because they classes are full, then it is hurting the program.

You could build the Camden Yards in college baseball & it simply won't make a huge difference. College baseball is about scouting & finding the niche of signing 4th-7th round high school draft prospects that turn into top 3 round draft prospects out of college. If you are just recruiting the top guys that are easy to scout & everyone loves, you won't get them to campus.

Just my take