Slight bias as an alum, but as has been pointed out if they can lever the Stanford model and get kids who value education, it's got a lot of great selling points finally going in its favor. Nashville is a great city no longer associated with just Waylon and Johnny, they're finally investing in facilities (not like Oregon or Bama or even UTK, but to the tune of at least staying somewhat competitive) and they can pitch the SEC angle. Other than TAMU they've got by far the second biggest endowment in the conference, the trustees are finally seeing the value of spending a little on athletics.

They won't be playing for a CFB championship, but they have proven over the last few years that they can beat the historic powerhouses and aren't the doremats they've been known for pre 2005. If Mason can keep the momentum, and even sell some of the cool black coach angle that worked for James Franklin, they can at least go bowling every year.

And Corbin is a hell of a coach, this was far from his best team, major disappointments in earlier years. They're not going anywhere in baseball.