It's almost like people don't have time to take three hours and go out to a ball game. Burns has seen both worlds, having transferred from UCLA to Tech after the 1997 season. Then-Tech assistant coach Frank Anderson visited with Burns over the telephone prior to his transferring. Burns remembers being initially skeptical when told that 3,000 fans at a Tech baseball game was commonplace. Then he saw for himself.
Tech is like their professional team.
That's what makes it so fun to play here. And the Trojans the team that has been to the College World Series twice in the past six years aren't too haughty to admit it. In that ninth inning, when some things started to happen, when the noise increased in intensity, I don't think there's any doubt that it made a difference. It's a shame a great program has to leave home to find that sort of passion for the game. In the 1999 series in Austin, a total of 14,985 came out for three games, and the Longhorns won all three.