I think it has more to do with the history of those sports of players moving about. It's an issue the coaches certainly can address through the NCAA's legislative process. The ABCA could introduce legislation to bring baseball in line with those other sports. Tampering With Reality While many coaches would like to see a move to bring baseball more in line with basketball, football and hockey, it's up to them to effect change. Georgia Tech coach Danny Hall, a recent president of the ABCA, said the impression he received from NCAA officials in the past was that it was more likely for those three sports to follow baseball's lead than the other way around.
Coaches insist tampering is rampant and players are constantly recruited when they play summer ball.
When players are unhappy, they are ready to hear good things about other schools. Players who are unhappy listen and get ideas. The happy players just dismiss it, because they like where they are. Alabama assistant coach Mitch Gaspard said plenty of players and coaches were unhappy at his school last season, starting on Opening Day, when outfielder Derek Wigginton quit the team. The team underachieved and had the worst chemistry during coach Jim Wells' six-year tenure.