A very overlooked and important perspective:
"there are very few transfers in to Ivies and grad students are not eligible so the players they recruit actually get a chance to develop."
Incredibly stable rosters. There is no exit interview where the player is cut. There aren't 20 kids coming in each year - basically, there are just the 7 incoming players who replace the graduating seniors.
Every year a player who had a disappointing prior year gets a brand new shot at playing. My son had three straight years where he was penciled in as a weekend starter, only to work himself down the depth chart to unused. He appears in the school record book (game, season, career) in walks, hit batters, and wild pitches. Then came his senior year when he put it all together. Only at the service academies and the Ivy league would he have been given a new chance every year - at every other D1 he was offered athletic money, he would have been tossed after his first year.
That's the baseball side.
The "prepare for the world" side was exceptional in academics, networking, and employment opportunities.
Add in the FA we received and it was a really good deal.