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Thanks, Larry. I'd like to add a little more on this subject. Larry is right about getting caught up with the exposure issue. With budget cuts and scouts spread thin, you're not going to find scouts watching Colby playing Bowdoin in Maine. Take a look at Johns Hopkins - 40 and 4 this year and rated in the top 10 among DIII schools all year. For the first time in five years they had a player drafted - somewhere around 600. The last draftee in '99 was picked past the 30th round if I recall. Now this is a top level DIII team that gets exposure. Nevertheless I can name a dozen high school teams that had more players drafted this year than Hopkins has in the past decade. Again, Hopkins plays great ball, but everything is relative. The best DIII teams can compete consistently with the nation's top high school teams, but regretably will not get the same exposure.
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