re: 3/10/25 - College Baseball Rankings

D1 baseball is the only poll that matters since it’s gets under the mountain gump’s skin so bad.

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There is no pool of money at all to be used on a sport that is already a huge drain on their ADs

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NIL isn’t funded by any schools AD. It’s a separate entity than the AD. Bayou Traditions is funded by a tiered donation system and TAF also helps fundraise for them

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those schools are already losing a ton of money on baseball every year. They don't have the funds, even if they are much smaller in scale than football/basketball, to pay guys NIL money. There is no pool of money at all to be used on a sport that is already a huge drain on their ADs

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If there are 2 or 3 donors that decide they want their baseball team to be well funded, then none of what you said matters.

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NIL isn’t funded by any schools AD. It’s a separate entity than the AD.

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There isn't a group of boosters for baseball at small schools to pay baseball players. NIL isn't much of a thing in baseball outside a small group of schools with fans who care enough.

How is Mizzou THAT BAD?

Is the SEC no longer the best football conference that has instead transformed into the best baseball conference?

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NIL isn't much of a thing in baseball outside a small group of schools with fans who care enough.

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That’s not an absolute. CBB is growing more and more every year, especially with the tv contracts and the new Juco rules. It’s more attractive now more than ever for top tier high school guys to go the college route which in turn puts more players at the college level which also evens the playing field more and more. That puts more good players at some mid majors or teams who wouldn’t normally care about baseball to finally start caring because they are finding success. All it takes is one ex mlb player or business man to throw some money at their Alma mater to ignite something.

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Xavier is somehow #2 in RPI with a 7-9 record so Tuesday's game should help ours (70th lol) with a win.

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Unfortunately, that’s not how the RPI works. It will make LSU’s quad record look better, but it won’t necessarily help their RPI. Xavier is #2 because 75% of the weight is on schedule strength components. Their 7-9 record gets 50% weight when calculating LSU’s RPI and their opponents record only 25%. That won’t help the way you think playing #2 would.

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CBB is growing more and more every year, especially with the tv contracts and the new Juco rules. It’s more attractive now more than ever for top tier high school guys to go the college route which in turn puts more players at the college level which also evens the playing field more and more. That puts more good players at some mid majors or teams who wouldn’t normally care about baseball to finally start caring because they are finding success. All it takes is one ex mlb player or business man to throw some money at their Alma mater to ignite something.

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and those guys you speak of aren't going to small programs, and those small programs don't have TV deals like the SEC does. Elite prospects are going to big programs to cash in, not mid majors. and the best mid major prospects are transferring to major programs every year to cash in. We have several on our team, NIL and the portal was the worst thing ever to happen to mid major programs