re: Only 3 National Seeds made it out of their own regional!

quote:

---

40 years ago USC was able to dominate because no one else seem to even compare.

---

That was because they bought all of their players. (Before scholarship restrictions and no one else had the money/desire to compete.)

quote:

---

Skips teams in 90's were one of 10 or so teams that always seemed to make it to Omaha.

---

That was because Skip and those other coaches were able to recruit the most talented teams year after year. Look at the number of MLB players came from those 10 teams during that time.

quote:

---

Now the parity is greater than ever and its a great thing for the sport.

---

I'll have to disagree. Now it depends less on talent and far more on getting hot at the right time, getting those couple of lucky calls, or your opponent just making that one critical error. There WAS a time when the better team could overcome this with offense, but the NCAA killed that.

Some will say that the game is better and that the small ball era is a better game. I'm not one of them. Small ball isn't why everyone over the age of 6 knows who Babe Ruth is the better part of a century after he played. Small ball isn't what turned an LSU team from one that couldn't give away tickets a couple of decades ago to pulling in nearly 500k fans a year (many other "big" programs felt similar growth). I say it is time to bring back the bats of days of old. That's just my personal opinion.