preacherman20
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IMO, it’s hard to have a rivalry with a team you don’t play on an annual basis. Familiarity breeds contempt.I need to gauge the hatred of the SEC teams when it comes to baseball.
I know who are our hated rivals when it comes to football and basketball.
So far it seems to me that it’s LSU, Arkansas, Miss St and Vandy.
Obviously it’s different for everyone but I’d like to hear your take.
I really really hate Vanderbilt. I don’t like LSU or Arkansas either but respect their passion. As always I hate Florida, Georgia and Alabama. LSU fans were awesome this weekend they absolutely took the stadium over from TUI need to gauge the hatred of the SEC teams when it comes to baseball.
I know who are our hated rivals when it comes to football and basketball.
So far it seems to me that it’s LSU, Arkansas, Miss St and Vandy.
Obviously it’s different for everyone but I’d like to hear your take.
I keep hearing that the reason Vandy is so good in baseball is because they have an unfair advantage being a private school. What advantages do they have over the rest of the SEC schools?
Slightly longer version: baseball has 11.7 scholarships to give out (many other sports have full scholarships to give out). And, someone please correct me if I’m wrong, each player gets at least .25 scholarship.
Players can earn academic and need based scholarships as well, on top of the baseball scholarship. But there’s often a money gap between tuition/room/board/etc. and the scholarship money. And if you’re an out of state student, that money gap can be huge. Add in the various economics of families as well.
We had a Vanderbilt guy play for us one summer. I asked his dad how that school did things. His son was guaranteed for four years scholarships that were either 75% or 80% (I don’t recall which one) of the cost to attend Vanderbilt. In the recruitment process, his son was also offered by a real good ACC program as well. However the ACC coach couldn’t match what Vanderbilt offered, and I was told the ACC head coach said ‘I don’t know how Vanderbilt does it.’