Incase anyone was wondering.. Chase Vallot is pretty good
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Pretty nice to have both the LAPOTY and MSPOTY.
Will either make it to campus? Vallot certainly won't.
Will either make it to campus? Vallot certainly won't.
Need to figure out how Vandy and UF do it.
They seem to have first rouders come to college regularly.
They seem to have first rouders come to college regularly.
Everyone usually is. They probably have 30 kids on full-ride scholarships on that baseball team year in and year out.
Actually
there are more than a few schools, in the SEC, that give kids that play baseball full scholarships. It usually consists of some sort of academic scholarship.
Polk made lots of excuses, but this is one area where he is dead on. It's just not an even playing field in the SEC, on the scholarships issue. How it has lasted this long is beyond me.
there are more than a few schools, in the SEC, that give kids that play baseball full scholarships. It usually consists of some sort of academic scholarship.
Polk made lots of excuses, but this is one area where he is dead on. It's just not an even playing field in the SEC, on the scholarships issue. How it has lasted this long is beyond me.
I agree.
One thing Cohen has done exactly right to close the gap at MSU is not define who is on "baseball scholarship" -- and pick up a ton of smart players and put them on academic schollies. He "signs" guys all the time that hindsight ends up telling us were actually baseball "walk-ons" on academic money. That's one reason we constantly keep breaking our all-time baseball GPA record. The fact that he doesn't define it is such a breath of fresh air after years of "Polk's guys" with academic walk-ons being looked at somewhat as outcasts...
I honestly think Polk refused to "play the game" with academic scholarships because he knew that would undermine his argument that the NCAA needed to increase baseball scholarships. That, and the fact he was a terribly lazy recruiter in the last 10-15 years of his career, doomed him and us to mediocrity. Don't get me wrong, Polk was absolutely right that the NCAA needs to increase scholarships and level the playing field. But he was tilting at windmills fighting a fight he had no chance of winning. Much better to take the Cohen approach and use the system we have to the best advantage we can. It's still not really fair, but we can at least be competitive at a high level.
Being that he is "retired," now,
(I know he still "volunteers") i don't see why he doesn't go after them full-time. Hell he's got plenty of free time.
(I know he still "volunteers") i don't see why he doesn't go after them full-time. Hell he's got plenty of free time.