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@adbono posted:

Gunner Mack Jr wrote, “the impact on sports world be obvious, fewer places to play.”

100% correct. This is going to provide an unwanted reality check for many players and their parents. Up til now if a kid wanted to play bad enough there was usually a place for him. Those days are over. Competition will be fierce at the most competitive programs and it will step up everywhere else. There are likely to be less scholarships to be offered at many schools. It’s never again going to be the way it was. It will be way more difficult going forward. 

Never is a really long time. Life is in a constant state of evolution. What’s occurring now will likely have a ripple effect that lasts three years or longer. But the ripples smooth out. Baseball has always been a vulnerable sport given the season lasts longer than the school year. And in some areas weather plays a factor.

PG has changed college baseball. A lot of players stayed in state until PG. Now any kid in a cold weather state with the ability gets out of Dodge. UMaine used to be nationally competitive. Now their best players are leaving the northeast. They’re terrible now. Boston College lost a #1, 2, closer and cleanup hitter to Vanderbilt when they won the CWS. These were all high draft picks from Massachusetts. Twenty years ago they would have gone to BC. 

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