re: Baseball in Louisiana or Mississippi?

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Did you really just talk about state talent and ZT? They have kids from NC, SC, KY, PA, TX, AZ and more that play with them. They arent a local Cali team by any stretch. That is like saying Texas Prime is a Texas team, or Texas ZT.

Twelve is all local Texas and can play with just about any in the country.

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zt national is more cali kids than anythng but i get your point.

mvp is all cali kids and i would put them against anyone including 12

and yea i realize 14u kids are goign to 9th, also you have to realzie that talent is about be spread out and not concentrated on 1 or 2 hs teams.

i have said from the start, texas has way more prospects, but per captia Louisiana is up there for D1 prospects. Have never argued that louisiana baseball is better than texas baseball, it isnt.

all i said was the top 2-3 teams in LA (Barbe, WM, Catholic usually) could hang with the top teams in Texas and would be about 50/50 with them. But i alos understand that texas has abotu 20 teams about like teams 4 &5 in louisiana and maybe even more.

i dunno wtf you are even arguing. i was talking hs and you talking 14u travel ball. two totally different things.

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There are elite 14 year olds with college interest in the age group, so it is a fair indicator.

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ftr i do know you know the upper levels of TB very well. and i wasnt arguing with you. more saying your statement about the top hs teams cant compete with texas top teams, which is simply untrue.


in general michigan doesnt put out a shite ton of talent, but St Marys has a ton on their team and their is a reason they finished the year ranked #1.

and for those doubting 14u kids getting scholarships, this is a 13u kid i know that is on the usa prime team, these are the type of kids foot is talking about

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more saying your statement about the top hs teams cant compete with texas top teams, which is simply untrue.

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The words HS didnt come out of my fingertips. You can always find an elite group, concentrate them and compete.

We usually rank ahead of them in most everything——
Worst Highways Top 50, we are only 7th, they’re #1
Education we’re are 49, Miss. 50
Poverty is where they excel though, Miss. #1
Us # 4, but fear not John Bel has us in the hunt for the #1 spot ( we’ve already moved into #2 Medicare)

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follow quite a few of those kids on the usa prime team and some on that tx florida canes and have for a while. its crazy how good alot of those kids are for that age.

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the ones that have gotten a little testosterone are starting to hit it.

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Baseball is big in Mississippi and probably prioritized more than in Louisiana. Football gets all of the attention here.

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Football is huge in Mississippi as is baseball. Both states have a lot of great talent in both sports.


The past couple of years Mississippi has turned out a lot of great players

Depends on the question. Is the talent better at Mississippi college baseball programs? Over the last couple of years, I would say yes--given the number of universities.

In terms of talent that is homegrown, probably Louisiana--even per capita. Ole Miss and State are probably 2/3 to 3/4 out-of-state. USM is majority out-of-state kids.

If you look at the Perfect Game ratings, you see a lot of top recruits in each class in MS going to JUCOs and middle to low-level D1 programs.