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SEC BASEBALL Recruiting Rankings
Posted on 9/26/16 at 1:20 pm
Posted on 9/26/16 at 1:20 pm
2016 NCAA Div. I Recruiting
Results By Collegiate Baseball
2. Mississippi
5. Auburn
6. Florida
7. Louisiana St.
11. Vanderbilt
20. Mississippi St.
22. South Carolina
25. Georgia
26. Arkansas
32. Texas A&M
39. Tennessee
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Take with a grain of salt. It is difficult to rank baseball classes and Collegiate Baseball is kind of shitty, but its something.
Results By Collegiate Baseball
2. Mississippi
5. Auburn
6. Florida
7. Louisiana St.
11. Vanderbilt
20. Mississippi St.
22. South Carolina
25. Georgia
26. Arkansas
32. Texas A&M
39. Tennessee
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Take with a grain of salt. It is difficult to rank baseball classes and Collegiate Baseball is kind of shitty, but its something.
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Posted on 9/26/16 at 1:29 pm to Farmer1906
Think Vanderbilt was like 1 or 2 before the draft. They had a lot of guys they lost
Posted on 9/26/16 at 3:26 pm to Farmer1906
Alabama unranked. Anyone know anything about our class? I would have thought the new coach would have landed us a better first class
Posted on 9/26/16 at 4:08 pm to Big Wooly Mammoth
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Alabama unranked. Anyone know anything about our class? I would have thought the new coach would have landed us a better first class
This class was signed before he was ever on campus
Posted on 9/26/16 at 7:16 pm to Farmer1906
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It is difficult to rank baseball classes and Collegiate Baseball is kind of shitty, but its something.
Are you saying something is better than nothing, here?
Posted on 9/26/16 at 9:24 pm to Farmer1906
Cant wait for the season to begin
Posted on 9/26/16 at 9:37 pm to Farmer1906
This was the best the draft has ever treated OM
Posted on 9/27/16 at 10:04 am to SwayzeBalla
I'm shocked all those oxford kids made it to campus. We are about to be stacked
Posted on 9/27/16 at 11:47 am to Farmer1906
How did auburn pull the 2nd best SEC class? New coach?
Posted on 9/27/16 at 5:49 pm to bugafor6
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How did auburn pull the 2nd best SEC class? New coach?
Mix of new coach and big class. Caused of course by the old coach running everyone off.
Posted on 9/27/16 at 11:25 pm to Farmer1906
Ole Miss has been recruiting really well for the past few years.
Baseball classes are hard to rank.
Main thing you are looking for in a baseball class are a bunch of natural pitchers, a good catcher who can hit. At least one natural born hitter who is serviceable in the field somewhere and you always wanna try to bring in at least one really good glove man for the infield.
If your program is built right then you plug and play and you try to never have a bunch of desperate needs scattered all around.
It's ridiculous how strong the SEC has gotten in baseball. IMHO the conference is stronger in baseball, top to bottom, than any other sport.
We're loving this last class we brought in at SCAR and the current class is suppose to be very good as well. We've had #1 and #2 and so many Top 10 classes over the years ... but our best products have always been when mixing great classes with blue collar classes. The chemistry just seems to be so much better when the entire team is not thinking they are all top three round draft picks.
Baseball classes are hard to rank.
Main thing you are looking for in a baseball class are a bunch of natural pitchers, a good catcher who can hit. At least one natural born hitter who is serviceable in the field somewhere and you always wanna try to bring in at least one really good glove man for the infield.
If your program is built right then you plug and play and you try to never have a bunch of desperate needs scattered all around.
It's ridiculous how strong the SEC has gotten in baseball. IMHO the conference is stronger in baseball, top to bottom, than any other sport.
We're loving this last class we brought in at SCAR and the current class is suppose to be very good as well. We've had #1 and #2 and so many Top 10 classes over the years ... but our best products have always been when mixing great classes with blue collar classes. The chemistry just seems to be so much better when the entire team is not thinking they are all top three round draft picks.
Posted on 10/3/16 at 9:09 pm to Farmer1906
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2. Mississippi
The NCAA might want to check their balance sheet.
Posted on 10/3/16 at 10:08 pm to DawgGone
Rosebowl have any baseball insiders? I'm curious as to how the NCAA feels about Bianco's class.
Posted on 10/4/16 at 8:35 am to SwayzeBalla
We are going to be loaded with position players and pitchers. Very excited about this baseball team 
Posted on 10/4/16 at 9:15 am to Farmer1906
LSU's class is only at 7 but it hit on needs. We also didn't really have a lot of room to bring guys in this year.
We made it through the draft getting some pitchers I thought were big signing risks in Peterson and Hess. Jake Slaughter and Josh Smith both played well in their collegiate summer league as incoming freshmen, which is promising.
South Carolina also had a couple incoming freshman playing in the summer leagues.
Ole Miss must have signed a ton of guys because I know they lost some guys to the draft. That's impressive to see them still up that high.
Mississippi State sign a couple of relievers from LSUE that may be impact guys out of the pen.
It looks like A&M got hit the hardest by the draft, but with the amount of talent in the state, what's getting to campus is probably still very good. Having those ridiculous JUCO programs nearby certainly doesn't hurt either.
If anyone is interested in LSU's upcoming classes, I have a thread on the LSU RB dedicated just to that.
We made it through the draft getting some pitchers I thought were big signing risks in Peterson and Hess. Jake Slaughter and Josh Smith both played well in their collegiate summer league as incoming freshmen, which is promising.
South Carolina also had a couple incoming freshman playing in the summer leagues.
Ole Miss must have signed a ton of guys because I know they lost some guys to the draft. That's impressive to see them still up that high.
Mississippi State sign a couple of relievers from LSUE that may be impact guys out of the pen.
It looks like A&M got hit the hardest by the draft, but with the amount of talent in the state, what's getting to campus is probably still very good. Having those ridiculous JUCO programs nearby certainly doesn't hurt either.
If anyone is interested in LSU's upcoming classes, I have a thread on the LSU RB dedicated just to that.
Posted on 10/4/16 at 10:31 am to ProjectP2294
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Ole Miss must have signed a ton of guys because I know they lost some guys to the draft. That's impressive to see them still up that high.
I'm pretty sure that we ended up not losing any to the draft. We had a couple projected to go high (2 catchers, a SS, and a couple pitchers that I can remember) but all ended up dropping too far and made it
I was wondering recently how the limited scholarships work... if a player agrees to a 20% scholarship as a freshman and then has an All American year will schools bump up the %? Or will schools bump down the %?
I can see schools bumping down the % but can't see many schools bumping up the % very significantly. Anybody know?
Posted on 10/4/16 at 11:01 am to POCKET
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I'm pretty sure that we ended up not losing any to the draft
They lost at least one guy that signed with the Cardinals. Because I follow the Cardinals, I may be overestimating the impact the draft had on Ole Miss though.
Scholarships are renewed year over year. How each percentage is determined has so many variables playing into it that it's hard to say how each coach decides.
Some of the things that play into it include:
-Performance
-Recruiting promises
-Family's ability to pay
-non-athletic scholarship money
-percentage of available allocation
-how badly they want to keep the kid on campus
among many other factors.
ETA: My mistake on them losing a kid to the Cardinals. He was a State commit.
This post was edited on 10/4/16 at 11:29 am
Posted on 10/4/16 at 11:42 am to ProjectP2294
Vandy lost a ton of kids to the draft this year but still ended up #11 with a young and very talented team coming back so I will take it. Perfect Game updated their 2018 & 2019 rankings the other day and Vandy/Florida were #1 & #2 both cycles respectively with VU having a slight edge in the '18 class & no. 1 by a big margin in the '19 class.
Posted on 10/4/16 at 1:56 pm to Dore5674
Ole Miss got very lucky with the draft. There were 4 or 5 kids we had a decent possibility of losing and all of them made it to campus.
Posted on 10/4/16 at 2:07 pm to scrooster
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the conference is stronger in baseball, top to bottom, than any other sport.
Agree 100%
The exposure the SEC gets now with SCEN+ has made a difference... Alumni/students/fans can stream pretty much any weekend game they want not to mention the fact that ESPNU and the SECN show games every Thursday night.. SECN also televises 3 more every Saturday of conference play.
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