To tag onto my last post I will add this. I coach at one of the best JuCo programs in America - and I am very fortunate to be on that staff. Our program won a national championship in 2019 and my youngest son was a star on that team. I say all that to establish perspective. We are an elite JuCo program and we recruit really good players.
Here is what I want people to know. As of this week we are changing our recruiting philosophy. And this is at the direction of our Athletic Director. Going forward we will only offer scholarships to HS players if we feel like they are good enough to start for us right now. Not in a year, when they would actually be on campus. Right now. I hope people understand how many HS players won’t stand up to that criteria. When I watch a HS game it’s pretty normal for the best player on the field that day to not be good enough to start for us. The bar for entering college baseball has been raised. And not by a little bit. By a lot. And that is by design. That’s what people need to understand. In the past the mantra was “if you want to play bad enough there is someplace that will take you.” IMO that is no longer the case. Going forward it will be much harder for most HS grads to find a place to play college baseball. That’s we here we are - and I just don’t think most people understand that.
