[il Padrino Ute]

Two reasons immediately come to mind:

Pullins is a better coach and better recruiter than Law is.

Schools located in areas where it isn't baseball weather 365 days a year are almost always never going to be very good. When I played, we had to practice indoors a lot because of inclement weather and no matter how good the indoor facilites may be, practicing indoors still limits a baseball team. We were competitive, but that's about as good as a northern team can get.

It's tough when you start the season by playing the first 20-30 games on the road. Home field doesn't mean as much in baseball as it does in other sports, but it is mentally draining to have to travel to the various fields and back home to go to class then go back on the road, back home for class, etc.

Oregon State won it all last year, but it's an exception when a northern school wins it. Of course, the weather in Oregon is more mild than it is because of the lower elevation, but their victory was still more the exception than the rule.

Also, the incentive to go pro is much higher now too. It's tough for a kid to turn down a big fat signing bonus and because baseball has a farm system, it's generally more beneficial for a young player to progress in the farm system than in school because the focus on baseball is much more focussed because there are less distractions off the field such as school.