I could list every SEC baseball team and legitimately tell you why each of them should be a baseball superpower. Every SEC team also has disadvantages as well. I’ve seen some of our fans downplay our crowds, tradition, and Dudy-Noble Field and how that doesn’t win National Championships- and it doesn’t. But it also doesn’t hurt either. Georgia has the Hope Scholarship advantage and is in an area with a ton of baseball talent- but I think what they show is what happens when you don’t have fans and administration that care and OK facilities.

At the end of the day I think if you ask most baseball players and recruits the number one thing that they want to ultimately do is play in MLB. And maybe a few will tag on and end up in the HOF one day. So, I think the biggest thing a program needs is a coach that can identify talent, recruit that talent, get most of that talent into school and develop it and get it to MLB. And in this day and age you also need a legit pitching coach for the pitchers. Like a Derek Johnson, Butch Thompson, Gary Henderson, or an Alan Dunn that can recruit and has a great track record for developing pitchers.

The facilities, scholarships, crowds, and region are all window dressing that helps on top of what I mentioned and can possibly be what puts you over the top in some cases but what I said above about getting to MLB is priority number one. I don’t know what Stricklin’s problem has been at Georgia. They do have a lot of competition from people like Georgia Tech, who is down right now, South Carolina, Clemson, Vanderbilt, Auburn, and everyone else and most elite players in Georgia don’t want to play for a constantly rebuilding program where no one cares about the program. And if he has a third losing season odds are good that he’s going to have to make some coaching changes if he’s not fired himself and that adds a lot of uncertainty in the recruiting process as well because players want to go somewhere where the staff is stable if possible.