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@PitchingFan posted:

I know there are those who put a lot of it on the coaches but I'm not one of them.  I think they are who they are and you have to do your homework.  I wish more education of parents and players was the answer but my experience tells me it is not.  I know so many who cannot see the writing on the wall.  I see redshirt sophomores (3rd year players) who did not have success this fall who still think they can turn it around this spring and a small percentage might.  But most will sit the bench again this spring as they have the first two years.  I see parents who know there will be 50 players at their son's school who still believe that he can beat all odds and make the roster.  I see players who know they are the last guy on the fall roster and their numbers are not near the top guys but they think they can persevere.  So many believe that they the 1% who will overcome and a few are but the rest are the 99% that will waste a year.  Parents and players are not realistic when it comes to their dreams.  I know my son could have gone to a smaller school and been a starter but he wanted to compete with the best and got an opportunity to play on a CWS team.  But we were realistic on his expectations and if he had not competed his freshman and sophomore years he would have been somewhere else by now.



It is on the coaches.  They are the ones that bring in 20 over the signing number.  We give the coaches way too much benefit of the doubt.  The coaches are the ones selling that dream to the kid and the family.  What really sucks in baseball is that the players are paying most of the bill.  In the SEC, most coaches are close to a million a year or more.  The assistants are 200-300k a year.  The coach will dump you in a second if he can find a better player.  Then you are stuck with an apartment lease at your old school and trying to find a new home with yet another apartment lease and most likely no scholarship money if you are moving on mid year.  I know too many people that have gone through it the last 12 months and more that are about to go through it in the next 4-6 weeks.  All of them were studs out of high school too.           

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