re: Besides LSU who is considered a Blue Blood in Baseball ?

I'm not going to get into technicalities battles with who or what is a blueblood

LSU had no measure of success until the 80's.

However, the sport changed due to the emergence of ESPN. People need to remember, college baseball isn't on the same level as college football or basketball, either in viewing, or in skill level (at least not until VERY recently). Good players went to the minors, although some definitely came through college. But college ball wasn't at the same tier as AA minor leagues for most of it's existence. It was more accepted that good players came out of high school straight to the minors, not college. Fundamental difference in those sports.

LSU emerged the same time college baseball began to elevate. It's almost certainly the face of college ball today, and has been for a couple decades. It's been THE team since ESPN started covering the sport, and that has taken off now. So in that respect, LSU is THE blue blood, the premier team of the modern game.

But we had basically zero presence before then.

You can get pissy and indignant all you like, but that doesn't change. And it kinda sounds like that accusation people used to make on the SEC Rant, about LSU fans thinking college football started in 2001.

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IMO… Ok. St. Texas Wichita St. Stanford FSU Miami CSF Believe it or not Maine LSU was not a blue blood. Maybe y’all think they are but not in the sense I understand blue bloods to be

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Wichita St made their first CWS appearance 4 years before LSU and won their only title 2 years before LSU. I could go with a standard for blue blood that stretches back to an earlier time in history as seems to be your intent, but some of your choices seem inconsistent by that standard.

Maine had a good run from 1981-1986, but only 2 appearances before and none since with no titles. That doesn’t meet any criteria for blue blood status I’ve ever seen. They were neither dominant over a long period of time nor do they have multiple titles. And, again, most of their success only predates LSU by a few years.

Cal St Fullerton’s run predates LSU’s by about a decade. I would consider them a blue blood, but I question a cutoff that would include CSF but not LSU. Miami is very similar.

Stanford had a couple of isolated appearances in the CWS before 1982, but otherwise they were only a few years ahead of LSU.

So, I guess my question to you is what point in time is the cutoff for blue blood in your opinion? I think your list either needs to be much smaller or it needs to include LSU. Given how regional college baseball was prior to the mid-80’s and how little the sport was followed, I don’t think I would use a time frame stretching back before then. Blue blood would imply people actually cared back then.

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LSU emerged the same time college baseball began to elevate.

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But we had basically zero presence before then.

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I think you somewhat contradict yourself here. It’s reasonable to say that there is a lot of college football history prior to 2001, but not so much for college baseball prior to 1986. Most college baseball fans have no ties to the baseball world prior to that time nor do the schools they follow. The blue bloods from pre-history would be very limited and not particularly relevant.

No one else.

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Texas
USCw
Cal St Fullerton
Stanford

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Arizona and Arizona St
Miami
FL St
Okie State

If that is the there are no blue bloods in baseball because nobody invested heavily until recently

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Arizona State

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Actually had that conversation the other day with someone. I contended that they were not due to not being relevant anymore. He thought that they still were. The only reason that USCw is still relevant is because of how many titles they hold. It's been two generations since they've last won one though.

Doesn’t matter what your perception is or isn’t, the rest of the country considers us one. A few people’s perception is moot

And I am not getting pissy. Just trying to show that the rest of the country considers us a blue blood so it really don’t matter what you or I think

this guy is not wrong...