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Re: big hitting, SLOW running, sophomore 1B - what Division colleges to target for now?
Well like I said has only taken PSAT and scored in 95th & 98th percentile for verbal & math respectively.. From that I could project from a test score perspective he could be in decent shape there. At the risk of opening up a whole other can of worms (as in, start another thread) I'm NOT a college snob. I own my own business & am impressed with candidates for what they bring to us first.. If a candidate was #1 in their class & functionally illiterate I wouldn't hire them -...
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Re: big hitting, SLOW running, sophomore 1B - what Division colleges to target for now?
Since you live in PA there are plenty of non HA D3 programs. https://d3baseball.com/teams/region/mid-Atlantic The PSAC has several good baseball programs. Even without a lot of D2 scholarship money in state is inexpensive.
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Grades are important for many D3 schools, but just for context, there are around 300 D3 schools (with baseball programs) that have an average composite ACT under 33. And this doesn't include those that don't publish an average score. A very small percentage are at or above 33.
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This is very true. The Centennial Conference is a good example. There are schools with admit rates close to 10%, schools with admit rates more like 40-50%, and one with an 80% admit rate and a lower average cost after aid than the top schools. There are a lot of good choices out there. You just have to find the right match. BTW I had several HS friends who attended Washington College, which is in the middle group, and they absolutely loved it and went on to have successful careers.
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Sounds like you have a 3.5, 1450 SAT type student who takes AP classes. That is a very good academic profile. Seriously you can shave that half second off the 60 easy. Trust me on this. Just more maturity and some working on form will get him there. Combine that with a very good fielding 1B who hits for average and power and you have an overall very good profile. My suggestion is start focusing on what majors he wants, zero in the top 20-25 school fits. Next summer he can be a 7.3 60 with...
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The purpose of going to the best college possible is to have the most possible doors opened when entering the working world. But ultimately you have to prove yourself. Yes, there are other side benefits that may not ultimately matter.** But don’t you think a motivated, highly intelligent, high IQ person who attended an Ivy would ultimately get to the same place professionally if he attended Wossamottah U. ** A friend of mine, a farm boy from Nebraska went to Harvard for football and he was...
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Great story! Happiness & success are obviously defined for everyone differently.. While I appreciate & applaud your friend's accomplishment & success, to me personally, I'm not sure pursuing wealth beyond the things one wants to do in life proves - in the end - worth sacrificing the more precious commodity of time required sometimes to do it.. That's a very deeply individual life choice. To the idea of a "Wellesley girl from a generationally wealthy Brahmin Boston family" I'd...
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Some people from dynasties don't accept newly rich people even if they are richer than themselves. In Germany there even is a word for newly rich people (like for everything ) from lower classes. The aristocrats used to look down on selfmade rich people because they thought they were rude bragging people with no sense for class and understatement. Now there are really people like that, the costly skiing resort st. Moritz in Switzerland for example is famous for young russian millionaires who...
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The US has its own generational aristocracy mostly going back to the Industrial Age. But from my anti snobbery view the current generations are not as relevant in today’s age as they believe themselves to be. It’s fairly common for the family tree to wipe out the wealth in three or four generations. 80% of wealthy Americans have earned their wealth and are considered Nouveau Riche. I have more respect for those who have earned wealth or generated more wealth rather than living off it and...
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Re: big hitting, SLOW running, sophomore 1B - what Division colleges to target for now?
Genius post
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Take a look at rosters and what those players did in HS.
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Interesting article on sprint training https://www.stack.com/a/how-a-...ged-indiana-football
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6’1” 220 pound kid from my son’s travel program with a big lefty bat and slow feet just committed to a D1 a few days ago.
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To 3AND2FASTBALL, Thanks for the encouragement. I'm just glad that my 2024 big still has a couple more years to lean out and speed up some. I'm also liking that Pete Alonso has helped to make big & slow more fashionable in 2019! baseball-reference.com has him listed at 245 lbs. That said, Pete's PG profile indicates that the polar bear was running a 7.1 sec. 60 yd dash the fall term of his HS grad year … not at all slow for corner IF.
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Re: Division 3 to Pro
Your coach is going to place you in the appropriate league if he thinks you have the talent he will get you placed there. Top D3 programs have scouts at their games and following their top players and many have a scout day. Getting noticed is not typically not the problem if the talent is there.
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BOF is correct, I know a kid friend of the family who committed to a power 5 school. For a few reasons he ended up staying local and throwing D3 ball. He had many scouts looking at him closely this summer and will have many more this spring.
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Much depends on which DIII college you are at. Some are followed closely by the scouting community, many are not followed at all. There is a very big difference between the highest level and lower levels of DIII. I would think that most coaches would know when they have a player with professional ability. They should also know some area scouts that they can notify and someone in a summer leagues. Also, be proactive if you truly believe you're a prospect. There are Tryouts you can attend.
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A coach at a quality D3 is going to know pro scouts. He's probably had scouts interested in his players in the past. If a player isn't getting interest and his coach isn't good enough to help he should attend a MLB tryout. If he has anything he will be noticed. A D3 pitcher is more likely to draw interest than a D3 hitter. 90+ is 90+ regardless of the competition. I know a kid who entered college 5'11" throwing 84. He left drafted, 6'2" throwing 93. The question regarding D3 hitters is the...
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The coach of my son's D3 says that he expects that up to three of his players should draw some interest in the draft this year. From what we can gather the coaches are well connected and well respected, at least for a D3. They seem to get what might be called a small trickle of guys drafted from time to time. I think I read on their website that it was 24 in the past I can't remember how many years. So it definitely can happen. Of those 24 draft picks, though, I think most were in very late...
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Thanks for the input everyone! Looks like I'll have to attend a tryout this summer since my school isn't a power house D3 program. We do play a lot of power house schools (two schools from our conference went to the world series last year and one of their coaches made it to the majors) though so I may get lucky if a scout is watching someone on another team. I am a pitcher by the way and I know we have a better chance at being scouted. Thanks again!
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With that velo, you should press your coach to find you a spot - Northwoods would be perfect for you. If he does not have the contacts, press him to speak to an area scout who has the right contacts. If that doesn't work, at the beginning of the Northwoods season, teams are always looking for temp players to fill in until the rostered players arrive. Do well during that temp contract and the team will either have a spot or call other teams on your behalf. Also, as the Northwoods season...
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lion, I am going to come at this in a slightly different way, but it worked for our son who was a D3 position player who was drafted. This is actually the way our son's D3 coach did it and his track record for Summer placements is second to none at the D3 level-last summer he had one player selected as a Northwoods All Star and 2 selected as NECBL All-Stars, (including one pitcher) and another who was one of the very top hitters in the NECBL for most of that Summer. I would suggest you look...
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You have received great advice, get on a good summer league team, work on your velo, and don't worry about the pro prospects until it is evident you have those skills. 86-88 in today's world is nowhere near where you need to be. Frankly 90 is not that unusual these days, for serious pro interest you will have to sit 90 (minimum) and be touching 94-95, anything less than this you are just kidding yourself. My son has a friend from his program (CWS team) who sat 90 touched 94 and was taken as...
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Re: D3 Scholarships?
Hello, Call the school that you are interested in and try to set up a school visit, you will be able to meet with the admin group and also talk to the coach when you visit. There are only academic scholarships in D3 level no sport scholarships. Good luck,
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Originally Posted by jlaro: Hello, Call the school that you are interested in and try to set up a school visit, you will be able to meet with the admin group and also talk to the coach when you visit. There are only academic scholarships in D3 level no sport scholarships. Good luck, this is true, however, there is also some academic money out there for players who would not have gotten it if they didn't play...bottom line is you still need to be a good student.
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May I ask why you limited your question to DIII? DII schools offer athletic scholarships, and junior colleges are typically much less expensive than DIII.
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I know that the school my son attends prides itself on diversity. There are Scholarships targeted at international students. For instance I did a search, for scholarships on the Web site of my sons school and came up with this. http://choose.owu.edu/financia...onalScholarships.php I am sure this school is not the only one to offer scholarships to international students. I believe the deadlines are different as well. You may want to narrow your search to the schools you know offer...
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I am only considering Divison 3 schools since I am looking for a great education.
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My wife went to a Juco then graduated summa cum laude from UCLA. She believes that she got a great education. My former coaching partner went to a D2 Cal State. He founded a large corporation and is stinking rich. He also feels that he got a great education.
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As with anything in life you will get what you put into it. While I consider myself an advocate of D3 schools, you can get a great education going many routes. Junior college is a great option, and cost effective. If you have the drive to learn, you can get a great education anywhere. I know people who did not go to college yet they still feel they got a great education, in the working world.
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Originally Posted by shotatsuda: I am only considering Divison 3 schools since I am looking for a great education. There are certainly some top academic D3 schools, some of the best in the country. However there are just as many, if not more D1&D2 top academic schools which offer both academic and athletic scholarship money. Furthermore, some of these schools are even public(i.e. Univ. Of Virginia or UCLA) so tuition is much lower. So if the only reason you are limiting yourself to D3 is...
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Are you planning to enter college in the fall of 2015? If so, some of that scholarship money is already spoken for. As with athletics, I think you'll also find some overlap in academic distinction between DII and DIII colleges. But as others have advised, a "great education" means different things to different people. What does "great education" mean to you? High paying job after undergrad? Impressive diploma? Great resume for graduate school? Intellectual challenge? Think carefully about...
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Originally Posted by MidAtlanticDad: I am going to attend college in fall of 2016. I am planning to start my recruitment process next spring by making a video. For me and my community/high school, I believe a college that offers a good education means a good job after undergrad. I am not really sure what I would like to do, but for now I am looking for schools that have good reputations. I have a 3.5 GPA and trying to get a 2000+ on my SAT.So a good Liberal Art school sounds like a right fit...
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I believe I am not good enough to play at a division one programme. I just don't have enough tools. I am well aware of that. I am 5'7 155 Lbs and not fast for a middle infielder. (I am trying to run under a 7.5 by next spring.) I believe division 3 schools are the right fit for me. However I will do some research on some D2 schools. Thanks for the reply. Originally Posted by shotatsuda: I am only considering Divison 3 schools since I am looking for a great education. There are certainly some...
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Thanks for the reply, I completely agree you can get a good education whereever you go, but it is important that I can go to a school with good reputation.
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shotatsuda, Here are the six schools that offer need blind and full need admissions to international students : MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Massachusetts Harvard University in Massachusetts Princeton University in New Jersey Yale University in Connecticut Dartmouth College in New Hampshire Amherst College in Massachusetts Amherst & MIT are both D3 and the other four are Ivy League schools which are D1. If you are admitted to any of these colleges you will be able to...
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Re: NCAA recruiting and transfer updates
RICK; Is there any consideration by NCAA to allow the Colleges to create a Freshman Teams. This was created by the Colleges after the WWII and during the Korean War. Bob Williams "founder" of the Area Code Games
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Bob, I'm not aware of that topic being considered for Division I baseball. Obviously, Division I baseball has a 35-man roster limit. However in D2 and 3 baseball as well as other sports, they don't have restricted roster sizes so they're allowed to have freshman or JV teams if they choose to do so. Two specific examples I've been made aware of are an Ivy League school that had a JV football team in the 2018 season and a JV basketball team this year at a D2 college that actually shows 56...
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Rick; thank you. With the increase # of Juniors and Seniors remaining in College with athletic eligibility, specific programs may desire to create a JV or Freshman Baseball team as a "Farm team" to evaluate players on a daily basis. Intra-Squad games and games with JC could be scheduled. Bob
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Thanks for posting Rick. I have a feeling you'll be getting a lot of calls in the coming months.
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Rick, thank you for the information. I don't know if this has been asked before, but is there a website where the public can see the baseball transfer portal players? Thanks.
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The transfer portal isn't available for viewing by the public. By the way, when you see bloggers and others who write about sports providing information on which athletes or how many are in the portal (such as high profile athletes in football or basketball) they are either being given that information by the athlete or somebody closely associated with the athlete, or a coach at an NCAA school is giving that blogger their login and password. For what it's worth, I've never viewed information...
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Re: Don't sign a Voluntary Withdrawal Form
I was told yesterday Pitt informed its entire 2018 freshman class they were no longer needed find a new place to play. The NCAA as an organization should burn in hell for allowing these things. College Presidents should grow some balls and do the right things. I really dislike our court system but it is a damn shame somebody find a way use it to screw every major college athletic department....ok time for some coffee!
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This is rough. We know of at least one from there that didn’t even make it past the fall...