Everything in this post turned out to be true. Weather is relative to where you live. The team travels until March. A baseball player who is a serious student has little time to worry about the other stuff. My son did gravitate to a CA teammate (by coincidence we knew the family from when we lived in CA). Outside baseball his friends tended to be from east coast metro areas. Alcohol is prominent in and around the campus. This is the major distraction. A baseball player shouldn't have time to be involved. Smith was a rising star coach. He left for ASU. Lemonis, a highly regarded assistant at Louisville is the coach. My son loved it there. He did say returning to the east coast after college was like returning from space. I asked him several times. Are you sure you want to spend four years in a cornfield? He was there for five due to an injury and two degrees.