Altho your need to look down upon certain programs/conferences doesn't surprise me, it still baffles me. "Studmuffin" school, or not....every boy who works hard and makes a college baseball team (regardless of conference), deserves respect and shouldn't be demeaned as being classified as a member of a "pretender team". By doing so you negate all the hard work, sweat and sacrifice these young men put into baseball.
Seriously tho, I am curious...what criteria do you use in defining what a "pretender" program is? Do you have to be on a traditionally top 25 D-1 team to be considered on a "real" team? Does the team have to be a money maker for the school? Are the boys who play for teams like Princeton, Harvard, Navy, Army (#145, #205, #223, #259 rankings respectively) considered to be on "pretender" teams because of their over-all ranking and conference affiliation (despite the fact that they get wonderful educations at these schools, "pretender" status or not)? Just curious as to what your thought process is when you label a program a "pretender".