All due respect, everything you say is bull****.
First, I'm not just talking about what the "official" class ranking is. "Top 10" and "Top 5" mean nothing to me. I wipe my *** with those "accolades" in baseball. We've had plenty of posters write plenty of stuff about how the individual ratings are suspect, and that's before you even get into the concept of building a team, and not just assembling a couple dozen INDIVIDUAL guys with "high ratings". I've said it before, and I'll repeat it. If you are not getting all the guys YOU WANT, then it doesn't matter what they were rated.
Yes, two different things can be true. It is hard to recruit guys to Miami BECAUSE OF the tuition differential. And the effort and scouting and funding required to overcome that differential would be a challenge that we don't have to fight as hard if you just had equitable scholarship rules.
To be honest, I have no clue why you are such a stubborn buffoon on this issue. What is so special about baseball? Do we get a merit badge for "fighting harder to overcome tuition differential"? These student-athletes put in comparable year-round prep time and competition time, there is no reason why baseball players shouldn't be getting the same treatment as football and basketball players. And once you ELIMINATE the tuition-differential as an issue, you can focus on OTHER issues to overcome, such as the tiny PAID staff afforded to baseball compared to football.
As far as "every single program loses guys to the draft", that is bull****. Flat out bull****. It impacts some schools way more than others, not just in one year, but for decades. That's a stone-cold fact.
I'm not even going to dignify the rest of your garbage, because you are INTENTIONALLY trying to mislead people. Ooooh, "UVA has very high out-of-state tuition". First of all, UVa is a **** good academic school that might warrant the value of paying more in tuition. ****, we have actual UM grads who come onto this site to talk about how the value of a UM degree isn't worth the current cost of attendance. The state of Virginia allows each school to set their out-of-state tuition rates, and UVa is by far the highest. But if you just picked ANOTHER school in Virginia that is in the ACC, you'd see that VaTech's OOS tuition cost is HALF that of of UVa.
To move on, I didn't try to compare Florida schools to Virginia schools, so let's stick to my argument. The University of Flagship, which is a "top 5 state university" (according to them, though I think it is statistically proveable), is a school that just played in the College World Series finale. Hey, what does it cost an OOS kid to go to Florida?
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How about Miami?
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Again, if you recruit a NON-FLORIDIAN, the tuition is DOUBLE at Miami and the living expenses are 50% higher than in Hogtown. Which is meaningful when you only get a 25-30% equivalency scholarship.
And if you recruit a FLORIDIAN, the tuition at Miami is NINE TIMES what it is at Florida. NINE TIMES, MRS. BUELLER.
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Please just stop ******* around and trying to cite "UVa" as a comparable.
The numbers are real. The problems are real.
The NCAA needs to allow Division I-A baseball to go to headcount scholarships. Period. Full stop.