Is it your thought that at UO,  a resurrected program must be a national champion in a decade  or it is flawed?  Kids play where they are comfortable and feel safe.  UO dropping wrestling didn't make UO a safe place for athletes.   I just don't think a coach of Horton's caliber is out there to move to a wet baseball hell hole when they can just as easily be in the sun,  be closer to where the kids are being baseball formed.  Casey was from Newberg or thereabouts.  Still has his high school's highest individual scoring record in a basketball game.  He grew up in the wet and slimy.  It is amazing that any of the NW schools can have decent track, softball,  baseball.  Unless, of course, you are on the dry side of the mountains at  Smallburg State at Scab Rock.