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<blockquote data-quote="Pharm Frog" data-source="post: 2730513" data-attributes="member: 34435"><p>I was listening to ESPNU radio way too early this morning on a drive into Dallas and heard something interesting. They were talking about the CWS finals and focusing appropriately on Michigan. The analyst (Mooney I think) made a point that I had not considered. He was asked what was the most important factor in getting Michigan into baseball relevance and the CWS finals. He said that head coaching hire (Bakich) was the most important factor for several reasons but the most important among those was that he immediately started lobbying the school to do more with their need-based aid program to get players like he had learned to do at Vanderbilt as recruiting coordinator with their endowment. This is the first time I had heard anything about UM being among those schools that are using need-based aid to target recruitment. I knew about UVA and Stanford and Vandy of course but not UM.</p><p></p><p>Here's a Bakich quote I found in the Detroit Press...</p><p></p><p>“Scour the country for the very best players who also happen to be good students and uncover every lead, turn over every stone to find the very best fit for your program,” he said. “We’re fortunate we have some need-based financial aid at Michigan. Not quite like what a private school has with an endowment, but it’s helpful. We have leveraged that as best we could to target as many players that come from needy families as we can.</p><p></p><p>“It’s not just the inner cities. It’s out in the middle of the country. It’s all races. It’s not just African-American kids. It’s Latin-American kids. It’s anyone. Doesn’t matter. We don’t care what color. We just want the <strong>very best players possible and a lot of times will qualify for more need-based aid than we could ever provide in a partial scholarship"</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pharm Frog, post: 2730513, member: 34435"] I was listening to ESPNU radio way too early this morning on a drive into Dallas and heard something interesting. They were talking about the CWS finals and focusing appropriately on Michigan. The analyst (Mooney I think) made a point that I had not considered. He was asked what was the most important factor in getting Michigan into baseball relevance and the CWS finals. He said that head coaching hire (Bakich) was the most important factor for several reasons but the most important among those was that he immediately started lobbying the school to do more with their need-based aid program to get players like he had learned to do at Vanderbilt as recruiting coordinator with their endowment. This is the first time I had heard anything about UM being among those schools that are using need-based aid to target recruitment. I knew about UVA and Stanford and Vandy of course but not UM. Here's a Bakich quote I found in the Detroit Press... “Scour the country for the very best players who also happen to be good students and uncover every lead, turn over every stone to find the very best fit for your program,” he said. “We’re fortunate we have some need-based financial aid at Michigan. Not quite like what a private school has with an endowment, but it’s helpful. We have leveraged that as best we could to target as many players that come from needy families as we can. “It’s not just the inner cities. It’s out in the middle of the country. It’s all races. It’s not just African-American kids. It’s Latin-American kids. It’s anyone. Doesn’t matter. We don’t care what color. We just want the [B]very best players possible and a lot of times will qualify for more need-based aid than we could ever provide in a partial scholarship"[/B] [/QUOTE]
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