@BaseballMOM05 posted:It just really upsets me for kids, and parents, that put so much into playing baseball at the college level, and then BAM...it's over sometimes before it even begins - all because college baseball is a "cut throat business." Just doesn't seem right.
That's baseball at the upper levels. No one is entitled to anything or owed anything. You either earn it or you don't.
I remember when my son was a freshman starting on varsity and there were some juniors sitting the bench all year. Their mothers were angry because their kids never played. The moms thought their sons were entitled to playing time because (a) they were juniors and (b) they put in their time playing freshman as freshman and playing JV as sophomores.
Guess what? Coach only wanted to play kids who were going to help him win...period. And their kids weren't it.
Didn't matter what mom wanted or felt the kids were entitled to, etc.
All those kids were gone senior year too.