Parity?...

I'm not sure my picture of the college baseball landscape is deep enough to give accurate perspective, but your thoughts certainly echo those of some very astute baseball watchers.

I think the USD did more to flatten the landscape than people considered. It used to be that an ace pitcher might get 20-27 starts in the season, now he'll get 15-20 at most. That's a lot of automatic wins that are now up for grabs. The USD combined with scholarship limits has choked down the depth of the top pitching staffs, while providing mid majors the opportunity to offer those wayward arms a nice compensation package.

I honestly believe that the biggest difference now, is, the haves, have less...and the have nots, now have...specifically with regards to pitching.

Having a son at a mid major would pretty much automatically constitute me as a fan of it!

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Yep, early, but just my sense of things. I seem to remember a great deal more of the "power schools" getting out of the gate exceptionally strong. And again Maybe I am wrong. but it seems like I am hearing more of the word "disaapointing start" about many of the power schools.

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I think the USD did more to flatten the landscape than people considered. It used to be that an ace pitcher might get 20-27 starts in the season, now he'll get 15-20 at most. That's a lot of automatic wins that are now up for grabs. The USD combined with scholarship limits has choked down the depth of the top pitching staffs, while providing mid majors the opportunity to offer those wayward arms a nice compensation package.

I honestly believe that the biggest difference now, is, the haves, have less...and the have nots, now have...specifically with regards to pitching.

That would make some sense. That being the case it will be interesting to see what happens as the year moves forward. Go Mid majors!

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I am not familiar with the west coast teams and the parity, but it is very early yet to draw any conclusions from the RPI and ISR. The same southern and mid atlantic powerhouses still dominate early competition.
I think that some of the smaller teams have smartened up knowing that they need to play tougher competition and the larger powerhouses know they have to play better competition early and not rely just on their conference schedules. I am not sure if it is the parity but just those realizing they have to make changes to what they normally did in the past to make the NCAA post season field.
For mid majors, more need to follow Coastal Carolina's model, coach has found the formula to get to post season and have home field advantage.