Ursinus New Coach

My understanding is that the coach moved for personal reason unrelated to baseball or anything that happened at either college

Personal or personnel? It has to be easier to recruit at Ursinus. Swarthmore does not provide academic exceptions for athletes. One of my son's friends plays at Swarthmore. The coach told him if he gets accepted he's on the team.

My son plays at Swarthmore. They have athletic TIPS like every other high academic program. They do make exceptions for athletes; just as they do for cellists, debaters, or other specialists who can add value to the community but don't come up to the ridiculously high academic standards of the regular community. Coach Exeter left for for personal reasons that have nothing to do with baseball or Swarthmore. Some students walk-on but a walk on hasn't received playing time in years. Normally he doesn't have to cut walk-ons, they just leave on there own, or stay, whatever. Just this year they started to limit the travel squad.

Just so people understand the math. At Swarthmore, Williams, Amherst, MIT, UChicago, etc. Its impossible to field a team without favoring athletes. Swarthmore has a 15% acceptance rate. If baseball players were accepted at the same rate as regular students a coach would have to have 56 recruits apply to yield 8 players and then hope they all matriculate. So obviously there has to be preference to the coaches choices.

I think one of the reasons they dropped football a few years ago was due to the fact that many of the faculty didn't like the fact that they were making so many exceptions for football players.