VCU & UR

Interesting thought.

I dont mean to be overly negative on here but the unfiltered truth is that UR baseball has dropped off a cliff in the past 5-7 years. They really had a nice run in the early 2000s under Atkins and almost earned a trip to Omaha (02 season I believe??), but they havent been able to get on top of the weak A-10 baseball conference since then. They seem well positioned to get some traction as a program because they are the southern-most team in the A10 and I would think they could use that to their advantage in recruiting to a degree.........however with their tuition being so high these days they are hamstrung in terms of the type of kid they can realistically expect to get on campus.

Would love to see them get the baseball program back on track and on par with rest of their very, very good men's athletic programs (ie football and basketball).

Regarding baseball- VCU seems young with potential... they havent done much for quite some time though. Seems like I remember them facing LSU in a Super Regional sevral years ago.

I really do like that VCU recruits locally and we can follow some of the kids that played around here through collge.

UR seems either unwilling or unable to touch many local kids - I would hate to reruit for them given the high tuition cost!

Maybe they will come together one day - if you see them play it certainly does not seem like a very hard nosed enthusiastic squad that will win you baseball games

Almost makes you wonder how seriou they really are about baseball over there

Just as a side note. Richmond is at ODU on Tuesday at 6 pm.

Talk about local kids, yesterday you had a Great Bridge, Indian River and Granby battery of pitchers. On Saturday a Princess Anne Grad was the starter. There are plenty of local guys playing.

EXACTLY! a team called Richmond needs some Richmond players on the team!!

They play baseball in Richmond?

Given Richmond's academic and financial standards, along with the scholarship limitations in college baseball, I doubt that Richmond will ever be able to put much more emphasis on local players. They get about one guy a year (Mayers, Mallory, and Poulos being the Richmond guys on the current roster). That seems about right to me. I'm not making excuses, but they have been killed by injuries lately. This year, my understanding is that Mayers is done (finger). They had at least two other starters out this weekend when they started freshmen at 3B (Poulos), SS, and 2B. Their pitchers this weekend were a freshman, a sophomore, and another freshman. Again, not making excuses...they are very young but they need to be better, especially in the A-10.

To answer the original question, I can see VCU getting more of a boost in general because it is simply more accessible for the average student (both financially and academically). As far as baseball specifically, I'm not sure if there's anyway to tell. VCU has been hammering the Richmond area hard lately (17 metro area players on the roster). Prior to this weekend, past VCU teams (with Maynor and Sanders) had received more national pub that this particular edition. I do know that there was a notable jump in applications after VCU beat Duke a few years back.

Me? I'm just happy for the city

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Originally posted by luv baseball:
They play baseball in Richmond?

I'll have some fun with arbitrary end points-

Baseball state champs last five years:

Central Region- 3
Northern Region- 1
Eastern Region- 1

During that same time the runner up was from the Northern** Region three times and Central Region twice.(**I think, as I'm not quite sure who's Northern vs Northwest).

Sure, there were three consecutive champs from the Eastern Region prior to that, but any idea that the Eastern Region has cornered the market on high school baseball is simply false.

Just goofing around...wasn't to be taken seriously or viewed as jabbing anyone on the HS level. I was poking fun at the college programs getting pumped nothing more

Just read and article about how Richmo d and VCU basketball rely. On local talent. Spiders football is also loaded with local recruits

"Traffic is up 48 percent on the admissions page of the Richmond website."

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c...x.html#ixzz1HWScSnN5

Rich
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