@Francis7 posted:Just seems very easy to red shirt a freshman who doesn't have a baseball scholarship or much of one. He's going to stick around and finish the semester. And, what is he going to do next year? Try the transfer portal? What are the odds of a red shirted freshman with only HS experience getting a better deal with the portal? In the before time, Juco could be an option but those rosters are just as jammed up.
Chances are a redshirted freshman who transfers is going to end up at a school that recruited him out of high school.
Here’s an ugly story ... Son’s travel teammate headed for a P6 (before Big East imploded). Head coach never saw him play. The recruiting was all on the assistant and good word from a connected high school coach/former D2 All American. The kid showed up in the fall. The head coach didn’t like his game. At first, the coaching staff tried to change everything about him. The kid was strong with raw power.
The kid didn’t make the travel roster. Halfway through the season and a couple of twenty run blowouts at home he didn’t get in the game. He walked into the coach’s office to ask “What’s the deal?” The coach told him by spring he had decided the kid had no future with the program and was going to tell him at the end of the season. One year down, no playing time.
Note: This isn’t the only kid I know who was told a semester later than he could have been told it’s likely over at that school.
Soph year he transferred to a local P6. He has to sit out a year with the transfer rule. Two years down, no playing time.
He returned academic junior year all psyched to compete. He found an all state switch hitter with a bazooka for an arm at his position. The kid’s arm was sore. But it was all or nothing time. He injured his arm and had surgery. Three years down, no playing time. End of baseball career. The kid left college despondent.