57special posted:luv baseball posted:About 10 years ago our local HS had a similar problem. 15 year tenured Coaches son was about to become a 3 year starter at SS, All-State in Sr. year on a team that won the State finished top 30 nationally in a few polls. He also played DI baseball. He was an outstanding player in every way.
Sounds hard to beat but he was probably the 3rd best SS in the program as a Sr. The sophomore playing JV got a DI scholarship before setting foot in a varsity game and transferred to another school. The freshman SS behind him transferred to IMG and got a scholly to play at a SEC national powerhouse. We were loaded - school had 15 players that eventually played DI between the JV and Varsity and another 6-8 that played in college.
Despite the success of that individual team it would have been better for the program had he moved to 2nd base or CF since there was also a All State 2nd baseman there at the time.
In the end everyone knew what the deal was and it wasn't changing. So 2 very talented kids moved on.
Man, that's a lot of talent! How many went on to pro ball?
Only one that got anywhere - He pitched at an ACC school and is in AAA - he might be a tick short on the fastball to make it all the way. These kids had great HS careers and about half had good college runs but only three at P5 schools and a couple got drafted. They went to places like West Point and mid majors close to home. We have two DI programs in town and about 7 of them ended up there.
It was a lot of fun watching them play - quality baseball nearly every time they hit the field but we kind of knew most of them were topping out at 18 - they were a bunch of 6'0" 180lb kids that lived on baseball from age 5 and were very polished players pretty early for that time. Now I suspect the gap our town had in youth baseball has closed - but I have lost contact with that.