Reply to "Do players automatically reach their potential or do they have to be driven to it?"

Buckeye 201510,000+ posts

I would ask this same question with it being "small school in a rural area that plays a crap schedule" vs a big city school that plays all the "big boys". My son grew up in a small town. We started traveling an hour each way to travel ball when he was 9 because he wanted to play with and against the best. At home he was a 9 year old dominating a league with kids 2-3 years older than him....in travel ball he was a good player on a very very good team. Our HS has produced 4 division 1 baseball players....total. His original travel team (from an hour away, played together thru 12U) ended up having 3 kids go D1 from it....with another D1 in golf and 4 or 5 D2's in basketball, baseball and football. Had he never went to play with that team would he have gotten a baseball scholly? Who knows, but I really doubt it

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