Huesman kid plays for #1 seed Vanderbilt after previous transfer from Coastal
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2025 Baseball Season
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Baseball was in a similar position to basketball. Think back to the 2002-03 timeframe (not sure on exact years). Made super regionals, and just missed WS by a game. Then made the NCAA tourney again I believe to Stanford and lost. But there was a period in the late 90's and then this early 2000's run - where UR was making the NCAA tourney on a regular basis. Not advancing, but making the tourney. This was also in the CAA days, which at that time - was a very good baseball conference. Then we move to A10, much less baseball conference - and we have never returned. You would think in a league really focused on the Northeast - with our southern position, we would have an advantage, but have not really been good in baseball since the move to the A10. Maybe the portal helps us, but this really should be a sport we have some regular success in my opinion. And success would be making the NCAA tourney (winning the A10 tourney) every 3-4 years, and making the A10 playoffs almost every year.
Had we kept investing in baseball following the Stauffer era, we probably would have fared much, much better in the A-10 than we have.
Apparently we are investing more in baseball than we were; facilities upgrades, coaching upgrades, I have heard more scholarship money and Hallock has pledged more institutional support.
But investment is the key. Investment means spending money, something UR has often refused to do in sports other than football and basketball (and now lacrosse), despite our huge endowment. Always incomprehensible to me.
A big endowment is nice, and I understand some of it is specifically directed to other causes. But in and of itself, money doesn't do much good if it's not put to work.
Apparently we are investing more in baseball than we were; facilities upgrades, coaching upgrades, I have heard more scholarship money and Hallock has pledged more institutional support.
But investment is the key. Investment means spending money, something UR has often refused to do in sports other than football and basketball (and now lacrosse), despite our huge endowment. Always incomprehensible to me.
A big endowment is nice, and I understand some of it is specifically directed to other causes. But in and of itself, money doesn't do much good if it's not put to work.
It's like a contractor that brings his generator to the new construction site but will not pay for the gas needed to run the generator, so the workers have to use old school hand saws.
Sometimes it seems we just like to act as if we care about things instead of proving that we actually do. 'We have a giant endowment! (But it's mostly just sitting there.) We built a brand new basketball training facility! (But our recruiting sucks and we only won 8 games last year.)
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