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[QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 1671376, member: 2133"]
Give it another 20 years and we'll be growing watermelons on the Tug Hill.  Syracuse would just be getting ahead of climate change.

More seriously, if the goal is championships, SU will never be Miami, but recruiting enough D1 players to field a team is not unpossible.  However; it will be interesting to see how the next CBA for MLB works out.  MLB is making money hand over fist and expects to grow their revenue to $15 [B]billion[/B] per year.  For 30 teams.  Of course, the players aren't going to sit around and let the owners take it all.  Some people have suggested that minor league players could/should see a fairly sizable increase in salaries.  If they're making $40-60k a year to play AA, instead of $12k, I think some higher end recruits will skip college and go to the MLB.  That could greatly level the quality of recruits that college teams can field.  Another suggestion has been the creation of a MLB scholarship fund (go to to the minors out HS and get your college paid for when you eventually go).  A lot of high end draft picks from HS already have college funding written into their contracts, but extending it down to the bulk of the minor leagues would be a nice payout to minor league roster fillers.
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