I mentioned this in another thread, and Cabbage alluded to it also, but what we are talking about is an imbalance of supply and demand. There are more good ball players then there are places for them to play. Whenever there is an imperfection in any commodity market that creates both hardship and opportunity. In this case the hardship is on the player and the opportunity goes to the school. Kids are so desperate to hang on to the D1 dream that they make bad decisions. I agree that using 3 years to play 2 at a JuCo isn’t a good idea. But kids are willing to do it and the schools promote it as it benefits the school more than the player (usually). So many kids and parents are just not realistic about what it takes to play at a good D1 or a good D2 baseball program. So many people would be better off if they would focus on D3 as soon as the market feedback told them that’s where they belonged.