Having the worse baseball facilities in the SEC and the lottery scholarship issues certainly have made winning big at Bama challenging in baseball. Ole Miss's best pitcher is from Hoover and the best pitcher in the state this year is headed to Vandy. The $35 million dollar stadium is going to help. It would also help if the non progressive state government in this state would allow the lottery like 48 other states in this country. But the church crowd will not allow it- and it has nothing to do with morals or ethics. It is about money certain denominations do not want to give up. (I think everyone knows who I am talking about here).
KSU has always been a power player in lower divisions but ask yourself this question, Do you think anyone on KSU's team would have gone there if Alabama or any other SEC program had offered? The answer in all likelihood is no. The same holds true for Troy last year. We are failing to either recruit or develop talent.