re: Why didn't LSU greats like Brandon Larson, Eddy Furniss, etc. make more noise in MLB?

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LOL this comment (obviously innocent) made me laugh. Wasn't that long ago...five of LSU's 6 NC's came before him.

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Thats kind of the point though. We won 5 NCs and it seems like only 3 guys from that era had prolonged MLB careers. (Walker, McDonald, and Bell). I am sure I am missing some others but as a 31 year old, those are the only 3 that are common knowledge.

Its kind of been answered that college baseball valued a different skillset to the MLB because of the bats but its strange to me that a college program could dominate a sport the way they did in the 90s without producing many pros.

The other side of this argument is that we have not been that dominant in the 2000s (1NC and 1 runner up) yet we have produced plenty of major leaguers or at least guys that stuck around in the minors for a prolonged period.