Quote Originally Posted by CajunEXPRESS View Post
Tank, IMO if we had big dollars for recruiting softball we should in fact send it in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, South Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle. Lets face it we are not going to have much success in California, New England, or the East Coast regardless of success.

Still getting to WCWS does open doors you might not normally get regardless of dollars.
You're right on all accounts. We have one person saying we're not recruiting the big players that he apparently thinks we could. We have another trying to point out that we do get great players. The issue isn't that we're stupid. Tank points out that it takes money. You point out that even with money (and with WCWS appearances) UL cannot easily recruit the heralded HS softball players from the west coast, east coast/New England, and midwest... against some of the biggest schools in the country that also have good softball programs. We'd just screw up the feeder system we do have going for us. Some of the best softball players in the tri state area are on our radar. Do we pursue one that makes it clear that she's going to an SEC school? Do we recruit the snot out of one that UT (Texas) is swooning... from Texas? We aren't recruiting a dumb recruiting system. It may bother folks that the #1 or #2 program handled us... but it isn't a "we're too stupid to recruit the right players" argument.