@Bballsavante posted:It is a weird situation..just a thought.. if any of your kids eventually become a pitching coach ..
and you want to give them some advice..
be different.
first thing to do is to coach/teach/develop
the rest is logistical...”
Fishnsail…
excellent topic you bring up. I’m 💯 in agreement with you. My son played in juco and at two D1 schools and none of the pitching coaches did anything in regards to coaching of players. Their mindset was either 1) if you aren’t good enough coming in then we’ll just upgrade you in the portal 2) either do it exactly my way or you’ll be sent to the back of the line (the end of the 25-man pitching roster).
They did nothing with video. Were masters of PFP work. Seemed like their whole job was holding runners, pfp & dialing the phone all day long in the hopes of finding as many arms throwing over 90.
One of the team’s my son played for completely turned over his own recruiting class 💯 in just two years before being fired. Oddly, the school kept the pitching coach. Our experience with college baseball has left a really bad taste. Between enormous rosters due in part to the ridiculous covid eligibility to semester to semester pulling of scholarships and incessant hyper recruiting 24x7…we left the scene wondering why so much investment was made all those years ago
Bball.. yes it seems like the case in 90-95 % of D1 situations.. there are exceptions such as TPM son..
check out the other Hall of Fame thread that broaches some and more of this topic :A recruiting story..
https://community.hsbaseballwe...56#75784881073112856
I have a new funny story about the PC deal..
so on son's team we have a 6' 5" built RHP who can throw fairly hard 92-94 ish..
however he has a difficult time pitching downhill.. last few appearances he tends to fall off way left on his landing foot and will literally fall down once every couple batters .
It is clear as day and a fairly easy fix(compared to other fixes).
and the fix "could/should" even improve velo to a very highly desirable range with better control that would work well in higher places..
I asked son(friend of this kid) "has the PC tried to help him with this"?
PC has never said anything about it. ...
I mean if you were a LL coach you would probably try to fix it..
but yeah the PC- he is a nice guy though..
kind of explains the whole deal .. it has been the same for 3 schools..
I will add another story for next week..lol
have a great weekend.