re: Absolutely insane Texas Baseball CWS stat

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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.

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Once Augie proved that you could recruit solid high school players from California that were deemed not-quite-good-enough for USC and UCLA in the 70s, all of the other smaller california schools (LBSU, Stanford, Pepperdine, etc.) started to outwork them and put more emphasis on baseball. USC unfortunately got stagnant, and as a result has had quite a depressing history since 2000 (at least in comparison to what they used to be).

Rod Dedeaux was their Wooden.