For those of you that don’t know, @baseballhs and her son have been thru the wringer. She has been incredibly respectful toward her son’s school in the comments she has made publicly. Not sure I could have dealt with as many issues (caused by coaches) and maintained my composure the way she has. Hats off to her!
IMO one of the biggest problems regarding college PCs are the unrealistic expectations of players (and parents) when they enter the program. @PitchingFan described the real world very accurately in his last post. It’s a numbers problem. Only so many hours in a day/week. Only half the pitching staff is contributing. So the hours that are available are spent on those that contribute. People that expect pitchers that aren’t contributing to get attention from coaches for “development” during a season in which they aren’t helping to win games are unrealistic - even delusional. It’s not gonna happen. If you find yourself in that position (as half the college pitchers always are) you have 2 choices. Either leave and go to a place where you are good enough to play. Or work hard to get good enough to play where you are. In the latter case you will need to take charge of your own development. Figure out what you need and find out where to get it. Which is probably the advice to apply to the issue of development across the board.