re: are USCs 12 national titles in baseball legit?

"Much competition"? Their titles are legit but hands down, there was very little serious competition back then. No super regionals. No conference championship games. Basically conference champions went & the PAC 12 or 10 back then was no challenge. I remember Dedeaux for 2 reasons: he was always pissed because the locals pulling for LSU gave LSU an unfair advantage ( he actually said this ) and USC at the time did not have its own based in Omaha radio station to broadcast its games, and their L.A. station had to piggy back on to a local station. Both Skip & Polk could have danced circles around him, coaching - wise.