proudhesmine posted:The freshman athletes stay at Briscoe house boys and girls.The building is @10 stories or so.With a fairly large number of rooms on each floor.Each floor has one large room where the kids can gather up for whatever reason.Each dorm room houses 2 kids.The rooms are separated by a living room/TV room of sorts where the single bathroom is located.My guy has 2 other BB kids that share the TV room.Not sure how things are handled when the numbers don't work to keep same athletes in rooms.You need a IU ID card to gain access to the building along with getting the elevator to work.The BB kids are assigned for 1st yr. I am pretty sure the 1 juco kid is at Briscoe also. After freshman/first yr. The kids can get there own place.There are currently 3 baseball houses.Next yr. there will be 4.(I think) Baseball house is what the kids refer to them not me.All they are is a 3,4,5 bedroom house/townhouse/condo whatever you want to call them where all the kids in them are on the team.5 of this yrs. freshman will be in one of the houses next yr. 2 + blocks from school. There is 1 main/large dinning hall along with @ 6-8,10 satalite food places.This is also the place where the weight room.conditioning room.As long as you have your IU ID you can eat anyplace on campos. The booze this is probably highly true. To correct this would be pretty simple. STOP the tradition/peer pressure whatever you call it of freshman having to buy for upper classmen. For coaches/people inside of the athletic dept. NOT to know this I would be willing to call a LIAR.I also don't think this is an IU thing.It goes on at a ton of other schools.Have a friend whos kid goes to in state school on BB team and this subjest might end up kid dropping BB. None of the BB players that I know of has time for belonging to frat.Kid will be playing in northwoods league this summer.Along with 4-5 other of freshman.I think all the kids are league area kids.(Il.WI.) which for me is a good deal.There is a freshman from NJ that will be playing out east this summer.Cape Code I think. In my guys situation coach said we have place x do you want to play there.When he heard IL. it was automatic yes. It does cost some.Along with helping out or getting something nice for host family. That is common sense I guess.I will not admit I would have known/do this without having this website.When talking to staff write everything down and reverify what you write down before leaving conversation.I will be honest My kid could have gone just about anywhere.He completely gets its the education but still wants the BB part. The one factor that pushed thing in saying yes was the schools not multiple hundreds of miles away.Along with Lemonis and his long ties to the Citadel.Our state school showed/had no interest in him.The OSU,A&M, WF type schools were great for him to talk to but in all honesty in our situation I probably would never get to see him play.I feel its a nice school/town. But who am I.One real negative is the road constructon for @ 12 miles or so getting in and out going north and south.Not sure how they will be done before my freshman graduates.Its one real cluster.Really it can be worse than that.Hope this helps I also hope you and your family have a safe & great new year......................................................
Thanks for the responses.
Congrats to proudhesmine , best of luck on the freshman season. And Congrats to RJM, two degrees is fantastic. Hope he had a stellar baseball career there also?
My son is just a blimp on the radar so far, sophomore in HS with some interest from some programs. IU is one and one of his target schools. It sounds like the baseball program tries to accommodate the freshman players. Its good they have options on where to eat.
One of his friends older brother went there ( non-athlete), he was involved in a frat there that got kicked off campus and a few of the members got booted out of school. We want to reinforce to son that maybe baseball and the frat life don't mix. I'm not naïve enough to think that there will not be any drinking involved but hopefully it will be kept to a bare minimum. Academics are #1 priority in this house and he understands that, but when 15-16 year olds hear the frat party stories the wrong brain starts thinking.