re: Absolutely insane Texas Baseball CWS stat

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Southern California with 21 appearances but none since 2001. They have 12 CWS titles. But have only made the NCAA tournament 5 times since 2000. The last in 2015.

That program taking a nose dive intrigues me.

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They for sure still have one of the stronger claims for "best baseball program of all time". But that argument has become tantamount to calling UCLA the "best basketball program of all time" (loose analogy as UCLA has at least made multiple final fours since 2000).

Overall success is more than the rest. But lately, they haven't been producing like the rest of the bluebloods (like Kansas, Duke, UNC in basketball)

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Southern California with 21 appearances but none since 2001. They have 12 CWS titles. But have only made the NCAA tournament 5 times since 2000. The last in 2015.

That program taking a nose dive intrigues me.

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Outside a mini-run from 95-2001, USC baseball hasn't been relevant since the 70s. 9 of their 12 titles came from 1961-1978 with them winning 5 straight from 1970-1974. They just don't invest in the sport at all, and they really haven't done much since Stanford came on the scene in California in the 80s. But honestly, ever since the SEC really got going, California has not been nearly the college baseball mecca it once was. Fullerton, Pepperdine, Southern Cal, Long Beach St, etc used to be fixtures in the college baseball world. Stanford has just recently gotten back in the mix after over a decade of not getting to Omaha.