time and effort recruiting incoming freshmen. They are focusing their efforts and scholarships recruiting the JCs and transfer portal.

- Look at BYU's roster: 9 of the 15 upperclassmen came from another college before BYU.
- It's even more apparent on UVU's roster: they only have six freshmen and five sophomores on their roster. Of their 29 upperclassmen, only three came to UVU as freshmen.

Why waste time working with a freshman that will disappear after one or two years, when you can bring in a ready-to-play guy from a JC or a portal player from a major program? It is killer for incoming freshmen though. It's now becoming apparent that the best path to D1 baseball is to play at a JC for your first year or two, which often isn't a great career path after baseball.