Quote Originally Posted by Commercecomet24 View Post
This. We are a top 20 program and I would add imo that we are a historic program in college baseball due to our success turning the SEC into a national power. Baseball is just so different from the other sports. You never know from year to year who will win it all, when in football it generally comes down to 5-6 teams, in basketball probably 10-12, but in baseball at least 40 teams have a shot. It's a year to year thing in baseball and you have to judge the status of the program that way.
And that's a major change from what it used to be. From the 60s to the mid 80s it was Texas, USC, Miami, ASU and a couple of others and that's it. Interestingly, from 1979-1985 we were almost the lone SEC CWS participant. Bama in '83 was the only other team to get to Omaha. Then LSU jumped in in '86, UGA broke thru in '87, and we were off to the races in '90 when we had 3 SEC teams for the first time (LSU, MSU, UGA) and UGA won the first SEC natty.