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Other Sports (Tiger's Back) / Re: KSU Booze Cats
« Last post by Kid In the Hall on Today at 01:52:08 PM »It's very different. We've never had any success in baseball and we're never going to have any sustained success so hoping for Pete to get mumped isn't really the same as it is in football and basketball. We're always going to have the resources resembling a middling AAC program, no matter who our coach is. It's what makes Pete so frustrating is that he's really maximizing recruiting but he's underachieving once he gets the talent here. Just enjoy what we have and hope we can make an unforseen run every few years or so. This is never going to look appreciably better. The only reason why we never Iowa State'd baseball is that we literally can't drop another sport.Honest question...how did OK State, Nebraska, Michigan, OU, Arkansas, Oregon State, Wichita State, etc. do it? What resources are we lacking?
Taking a shot...
OK State/OU - have good facilities plus decent in-state talent plus proximity to Texas
Nebraska - have great facilities, but really hasn't been an elite program outside of a few runs here and there
Michigan - somebody has to win the Big Ten? Same as Nebraska, not an elite program outside of a few blips
Arkansas - elite facilities (named best college baseball stadium in the country), great fans, proximity to Texas, play in the SEC, etc.
Oregon State - true outlier in that they have all the disadvantages we have and have been elite; most of success achieved under coaches who stayed for a long time
Wichita State - they cared when few programs did (80s/90s) and built (at the time) elite facilities. Since Stephenson was fired in 2013, they haven't done anything of note
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