Cal-Berkeley

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Great conference. Made it to Omaha last year despite AD almost cancelling program (no real threat of that again anytime soon). Good coach. Phenomenal academics. Plays in a sub-par stadium for Pac-12, but field itself in great shape. Lots of players have played pro ball and made it to the big leagues (current St. Louis Cardinal Allen Craig was there just a few years ago).

Tremendous overall college experience.

Hard to find a better overall experience IMO.

I agree with Justbaseball with one caveat. The place is just different. It is great for some and not so much for others. It has a tilt that you just have to go see (like any school) to understand. It was one of the early target schools that was on my son’s list so we went up and spent a couple of days there. I never said anything, as I wanted my son to make his decision, not mine. At the end of a day and a half he looked at me and said “dad, this is a great school, has a good baseball program but there is just too much granola here, guys wearing funny hats, and too many girls with hairy arm pits, not for me” BTW he has two friends who are going there and love it….A Stanford it is not.

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At the end of a day and a half he looked at me and said “dad, this is a great school, has a good baseball program but there is just too much granola here.....

BOF - I have to confess that you got a serious chuckle out of me. If a Californian is telling me that school is "too granola".....it just may be "off the charts granola" for us East coasters! None the less, a very good school educationally.

Sounds like a great school for my son at least as far as his father is concerned. Was almost ready to send him to this weeks showcase. Changed my mind and will wait until next year and see if he has any shot at a D-1 program. Right now we are only looking D-3.