[Husker] Baseball: Anderson says there's a reason for NU's struggles

[jon johnston]

Oh, man...... honestly, I don't have time to look at this harder  
because I'm in the middle of writing and editing next year's Nebraska  
yearbook. What I'd say is this (and this is off the top of my head):

  - I like Mike Anderson for the reasons he stated in the article. He  
does things the right way. This time it cost him.

- A week or two ago, Steve Sipple did an article about the AAU's  
influence on college basketball recruiting:
http://www.huskerextra.com/articles/2009/03/31/mens_basketball/doc49d19888d98fa930082813.txt

What you have to wonder is whether these same type of forces are at  
work in college baseball.

There's a lot of crap going on in college sports right now. The  
recruitment of Bryce Brown in college football is an example of an  
issue I believe we're going to see a lot more of, and I don't believe  
the NCAA has a lot of power to control that.

- On the contrary (devil's advocate) side, if Nebraska lost so many  
recruits to the MLB draft, is there a reason they chose the draft over  
Nebraska, i.e, they didn't want to come to Nebraska because of the  
coaches? I'll be honest here and state that I don't know enough about  
the players or the MLB draft to say whether or not all the recruits  
made good or bad choices. In other words, was there enough money for  
them to make choosing college a dumb choice?

Jon Johnston
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On Apr 23, 2009, at 10:44 PM, Don Mares wrote:

> The Omaha World Herald has an interesting article where Coach Mike  
> Anderson
> takes responsibility for the teams current slide.  He says its his own
> "honesty and integrity", essentially recruiting kids the right way  
> and not
> oversigning that caused this mess.  In years past, those kids signed  
> with
> Nebraska, this year they did not and elected to go pro.
>
> http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=3918&u_sid=10617335
>
> Right or wrong?
>
> Personally, I hate losing but if it has to be that way, I'd prefer  
> Nebraska
> is known for commitment, integrity and honesty as opposed to telling
> committed kids they are no longer welcome.
>
> Don
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