Again, this kind of goes back to my earlier post. Most kids don't expect to go into HS as a freshman and compete against juniors and seniors for the starting SS or #1 pitcher spot....but everyone seems to think that when they go to college as a freshman they are going to be the SS or Friday starter. Why? The guys there are older, more experienced, stronger and have seen 2 or 3 years of college level pitching. What seems strange is that a kid would go to a D1 as a freshman....say, "wow, I'm not playing enough"....leave for a JUCO for a year, then go back to a D1 as a junior and think "hey, this is better, should have gone here in the first place". Guess what, the situation isn't better, it's just that the kid is now the junior that he couldn't beat out for a spot at his original school. Who knows if he'd be playing there if he had stayed. A good friend's son did exactly this....started at an SEC as a freshman.....absolutely loved everything about the school but didn't play enough. Left for a JUCO for a year then ended up at a very good D1 and was a starter his junior year before getting drafted. Would he have started his junior year at the SEC school? Who knows, but he did get drafted much higher than the kid who played the same position at his original SEC school his junior year...so maybe.