Quote Originally Posted by CaptainObvious View Post
Both Auburn and Kentucky have some really good looking true Freshmen playing everyday. Is it because of Butch and Nick great recruiting or were they destined to play at Auburn and Lexington? I like to look at where the young guys that are very talented come from to see if they are choosing based on best offer or they have their pick and choose. Example: Duke and Wake not previously known for baseball all of a sudden recruits at same level as NC and Virginia. Louisville wasn't all that until McDonnell. Some of the directional Carolina teams have been fairly successful at baseball over the years based on such a hotbed in that triad of NC/SC/East GA.
Wake Forest hired an elite pitching coach who somehow got them to build a pitching lab and hire elite people to manage it.

Pollard is a really good recruiter and developer of talent who uses analytics and tech despite having high school baseball facilities and also has a staff member with deep connections to Perfect Game for recruiting.