Reply to "D3 vs. JUCO then going to D1"

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Originally posted by infielddad:
This isn't about a mid level or mid major DI vs playing everyday at a D3.
It is about how well your son is coached and challenged to get better by a college coaching staff combined with the amount of talent, skill, upside, hard work, heart and determination/grinding he is willing to do.
Most college players don't get from "potential" to being drafted without great college coaching and their great efforts. Some do and some to be honest do it in spite of the college coaching.
A great college coach is going to look at where your son can be, and needs to be, and challenge and coach him every day to exceed where he was yesterday. Those types of coaches exist at every level of college baseball, but not every coach at the DI level, in my opinion, can do that/does that.
So this isn't, in my view, whether your son goes to a JC, a mid major DI and works his way along or a top 20 d3 and plays every day(I still question if you understand what that means), it is about how well he is coached, how much talent, skill, heart, determination and focus he has, along with his willingness to grind every single day.