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A word of caution.  When we lived there, they made phone calls to my son and several of his friends/teammates and personally invited them to the campus for camps because they were "extremely interested in him."  We went and they hardly talked to him all day even though when he threw he faced 4 batters and struck out three and other one grounded out to 2nd baseman.  Then when he committed, they sent word through his travel coach that they had planned to make an offer if he had considered them.  My response to the travel coach was what did they think paying $150 for a camp and driving across the state was if it was not interest when he was invited by them personally.  They have not done a good job of getting the best players in their state to go there.  They were a good mid major coaching staff but have a ways to go in the recruiting battle of the SEC.  To win in any sport in the SEC you have to lock down the best talent within your state so you have money to go get the talent outside your boundaries.  If you look at the last 2 years rankings of PBR or PG, Missouri did not get any in 2019 class.  Michigan has 2, Missouri State has 2 and has beat them both years, and the rest are going out of state to major D1's.  2020 class has 2 and Kansas has 3.  When you are getting out recruited by Missouri State and Kansas for kids within your boundaries something is wrong.  They have had success before but not producing yet in SEC.   A big jump for them as a staff.

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