Kentucky, Tennessee, and points further south BB is very
by OITLinebacker (2019-07-24 14:32:03)

In reply to: Let's put Louisville aside and look instead at Vandy  posted by ndzippy

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different. Particularly youth baseball. So 40% or so I would call outside of the Midwest. Vandy also has an advantage of significantly better weather in the Spring. That shouldn't seriously impact recruit though.

I would also say that ND likely has a few more students from California and Texas than Vandy or at least % wise.

Again it is far easier to shop locally and make sure that local talent will need to fill a strong role, but I would look very poorly on a coach that said they weren't going to at least beat the bushes in other areas/states. ND baseball isn't always going to be able to go out and get the best recruits in any state they want, but they shouldn't let location of a recruit be a limiting factor. There is no reason to not look at kids from different regions. Hell it wouldn't hurt to work with the Football office and recruiting as there has been at least some history of football players playing baseball.

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