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Great read. I agree. We grow up loving MSU Baseball. We ask these kids to come here and commit to being part of that great Hail State family. Competing for out of state kids is hard and I will tell you why. Out of state kids have to earn academic scholarship to qualify for out of state tuition waiver. So all academic money goes to out of state tuition portion. If they don't get baseball money it's a hefty price tag still to bear. If they don't have the grades and are not on academic have have some financial decisions to make if they don't get much baseball scholarship money. So that's one problem already. Now we have uncertainty again about coaching. Nothing scares a recruit more than thinking the coach that he has built the relationship with is leaving. As discouraged as everyone is right now I assure you no one is more discouraged than the pitchers that are hurt now and no coach that recruited them is still here. Add to that five of them could have signed in the draft out of high school and turned it down because they wanted to be part of MSU Baseball. It may be a mess right now but it can be turned around quickly and we should expect that. The players that are invested and committed deserve that.
Thank you! And I heard something interesting on the WBC tonight about pitchers in MLB and I think it coorelates with Tommy John and the year round pitching- 60% of American born pitchers are from "The North" where they can't play year round baseball. I know Vanderbilt has had a lot of success getting pitchers from up there in places like Massachusetts. Maybe we should start doing the same at least a little bit.