re: PM: "Slaughter, Fedducia, Bush will sign." Webre transfer. Releases Cabell of NLI.

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39 count?

So 4 more players need to be "processed" according to this list?

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Yes, at least that amount, I say at least because there's speculation Mainieri is trying to add a LHP to our recruiting class out of California.

(1) SR. OF Antoine Duplantis
(2) SR. INF Brandt Broussard
(3) SR. INF Chris Reid
(4) SR. INF Bryce Jordan
(5) SR. RHP Clay Moffitt
(6) SR. RHP Caleb Gilbert
(7) SR. LHP Brandon Nowak
(8) JR. INF Josh Smith
(9) JR. OF Zach Watson
(10) JR. RHP Matthew Beck
(11) JR. RHP Will Reese
(12) JR. RHP Zack Hess
(13) JR. RHP Todd Peterson
(14) SO. RHP Eric Walker
(15) SO. OF Daniel Cabrera
(16) SO. INF Hal Hughes
(17) SO. C Braden Doughty
(18) SO. RHP Nick Storz
(19) SO. RHP AJ Labas
(20) SO. RHP Devin Fontenot
(21) SO. RHP Trent Vietmeier
(22) SO. RHP Ma'Khail Hilliard

Likely candidates based on Playing time I would assume.

Chris Reed being #6 on the list even though he is a good person to have as a utility player.

The reasonable rumors we have right now is that Nowak is gone and Reese is staying. The guy that posted it has had almost everything he said so far confirmed. I still think we go into the fall over the 35. But I think right now with the news of Kodros and a couple suspected attrition candidates, we're in the neighborhood of 37 guys.

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The reasonable rumors we have right now is that...Reese is staying.

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Thanks for the info.

Any reason for this on Reese? Like I stated before, he seems to be a good kid and all, but hasn't contributed much in his 2 years here. Is it in line with what Thunder suggested and that he is not using any scholarship, so Mainieri finds a way to keep him in the 35?

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NCAA isn't expanding the 11.7 baseball schollies because 98% of schools that have those schollies do NOT want to spend more $$$ on more schollies. PLUS, the 11.7 limit makes it easier for smaller programs to get good players.

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Everything changes over time. Title IX screwed over baseball for the time being, but things have changed over the last decade and 2 decades especially.

The NCAA has pushed baseball to be a more national sport and to help further that goal of making it a more broad appeal expanding scholarship allocation in baseball could further that. Just because some small schools like the fact the big boys can only get so many mid-level talents on campus due to scholarship limitations doesnt mean they aren't going to eventually expand scholarship allocation in baseball.

With having so few scholarships per so many roster spots the NCAA has created a very unfair situation with schools like Vanderbilt essentially able to recruit entirely differently than other state schools, and it also puts state schools who DONT have lottery based scholarship money at an even bigger disadvantage. I dont think we'd see baseball ever go to like 28-30/35 scholarships on a roster soon. But I could see them increase it a good bit, maybe around 20 or so. IT would certainly pump more talent into the sport.

Biggest thing to really help "national" appeal is basically moving the whole season back a month, so northern schools dont have to travel to southern schools the whole 1st month of the season. I highly doubt we may ever say that though with it cutting into summer as much as it already does. It would almost kill summer leagues entirely like cape cod.

I mean, Ice Hockey gets 18 scholarships in Division I...but baseball gets 11.7 - what in the actual F***? They also typically only have 25-30 players on a roster. Baseball has 30-35 on roster...

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Ice Hockey gets 18 scholarships

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How many players are even on an ice hockey team? Baseball just gets the shaft.

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How many players are even on an ice hockey team? Baseball just gets the shaft.

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25-30 on a roster typcally, to baseballs 35 max, which most teams do carry probably 32-35

So 18 for 25-30 spots vs. 11.7 for 32-35 spots