“The recruiting has gotten a lot harder, because so many of these kids, their first choice is always going to be a Power Five school,” said Cal State Northridge coach Dave Serrano, who also led UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton to Omaha in his career. “In fact, I had a conversation with (a current coach), this is even before I got back in the league, and he made a comment to me that it has gotten a lot harder. I was out of the league for about seven years and he said that recruiting has gotten a lot harder due to the fact that so many kids want to bypass the Big West and go to a Power Five conference.”
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