Stanford has a history of going deep, deep and deeper with a few starters. You'll recall a few years ago in the final game of the CWS (I believe against LSU) they left their starter in going into the ninth with their #3 player in career save history languishing in the bullpen (Jeff Bruksch). The Cardinal ended up losing that one.
Unfortunately, other than Jack McDowell and Mike Mussina who come to mind, not too many Stanford starting pitchers have had much gas left by the time they graduate (you Stanford parents on the site, please don't go nuts on me, not criticizing, just stating what seems to be the facts).
The young man yesterday pitched 11 innings and came out after starting the 12th and giving up a HR. During the entire season he had pitched a total of about 50 innings.
while SC (SoCal or are we talking South Carolina) has had notable exceptions in Seaver, Johnson and Prior, among a few others, they too have tended to use up their starters with enormous pitch counts also. Neither school has seemed to ever been big on developing closers/relief corps. They usually appear to go with one or two horses for as long as possible, which is not really atypical.
Actually, the closer in college baseball is a fairly recent phenomena. the "knock" has typically been present that college coaches go too long with their starters and this is why historically MLB teams have often tended to draft HS and not college hurlers.
