Quotes & Notes: Tiger Futures & Tiger Past

■ RockMNation has part 2 of their Baseball preview, with a series of Questions answered by some guy named Trripleplay

■ The Baseball Draft Report blog has an All-Senior Prospect Team, made up of college players who returned for their senior year. One of his three outfielders listed is MU's own Ryan Lollis:

Lollis is another plus defender in centerfield, but his lack of power has held his prospect stock down thus far.

■ PurpleRow.com has a Draft Profile of Kyle Gibson, complete with stats, videos, links and generally 2nd-hand semi-informed information.

■ Bill Clark has a great profile in the Columbia Daily Tribune about former Tiger and current Hallsville Baseball coach Barry Koeneke (MU '73-'74):

Almost every one of Barry’s 34 teams have sent players on to play college ball. None has ever played for MU. “Maybe soon,” Barry hopes.

■ Our latest "You Make the Call" poll has concluded, and by a narrow margin the fans have predicted Mizzou will win the College World Series and win the national championship in 2009. And if not, most fans seem to think this team can at least make it to a Super Regional. Detailed results are over there, in the left-hand column on this page.

■ The College Baseball Blog reports that the University of Vermont has announced it will shut down both its Baseball and Softball programs at the conclusion of this season.