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Theo Epstein 2017 Yale College Class Day Address
My apologies if this was already posted. Pretty good speech for a bulldog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D0S8SGa5dY
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Re: Ethan Davis Baseball Recruiting Video (2014)
wish he was playing for me this summer. Looks good! Best of luck going forward!
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Re: Ethan Davis Baseball Recruiting Video (2014)
Thanks Coach...your sage advice has been of great help in our path...hopefully to college ball!
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Re: Ethan Davis Baseball Recruiting Video (2014)
He can swing a bat. His swing isn't great, but he has potential. If he gets taught the high level swing, the sky is the limit.
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Re: Ethan Davis Baseball Recruiting Video (2014)
Excellent; he looks like he has a very promising future ahead of him. One caveat: just be careful about "loading up" on your changeup delivery.
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Re: Ethan Davis Baseball Recruiting Video (2014)
Big Thanks!!! to Midlothian Players Matt Heck(Junior) and Jonathon Rehkopf(Sophomore) for the help with the video.
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you mean he wasn't boycotted out of his speaking engagement? He must have been the backup plan for whoever got boycotted because it's the thing to do.
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Thanks for posting. Actually the (mild) stir about his selection as speaker was.".oooh he's just a sports figure." (of course ignoring his business attributes) In addition to the shout out to the Yale Baseball team in the speech,I am told he met with players at two local establishments and then visited the baseball house.
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Re: Average Freshman tryout participants
Nick, where do you live in Michigan? I lived in Adrian and graduated from MSU. We had 100 players for the Freshman team, only 5 played 4 years later in the College WS. Our roster included three Football QB [Rose Bowls] and one Hockey player. "the name of the game is to compete and play" Bob
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Hi Nick, Welcome to the site. This site can be helpful to you in many ways but probably not this one. Too many variables. Even within each geographical region, there are high schools of widely different sizes, different levels of quality programs and varying degrees of interest. Many HS's don't even have a freshman program... some don't even have JV. Just ask some of the other players in the program. It doesn't really matter, though. Regardless of whether it is 16 or 160, you just need to be...
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Average Freshman tryout participants
I am going to be trying out for my schools freshman team this spring and was wondering how many students I can expect to be competing against for the 16 available spots on the roster. How many tryout participants should I expect there to be in a class of 220 students? I know that every school will be different but what would be a good estimate?
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Hi Nick, are you in high school? How many teams does your school field? My son's high school has 450 per class, some years they only have a varsity and JV team and no freshman team because not enough players (freshmen are put on JV). When they do have a freshman team, they only cut kids who have never played before, or who have bad attitudes. So it really depends on your community, and which of the youth baseball players plan to do so in high school, vs doing other things in the spring.
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Don’t concern yourself how many players tryout. Be prepared. Put in the work. Show up for tryouts in mid season form. Do your best. Never stop hustling. Then, you will get what you deserve. Don't practice to be good enough to make the team. Practice to be as good of a player as you can be on the team. Most importantly, constantly strive to be better tomorrow than you are today. And the next day, the next week, the next month, the next year.
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Son's graduating class had close to 700 with maybe 60 - 70 trying out for freshman ball. Son went in having the confidence he was able to make the team, just his sights were set on the JV team as a freshman. As others have mentioned, do what you can control. Put in the hard work and when tryouts come work and practice harder than everyone else. Believe in yourself, you can never go wrong.
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It depends, my son's school is like Trust in Him, all boys HS with >500 student per grade. His frosh tryouts had almost 70 kids. His friend goes to a coed school with less than 100 students per grade so the baseball tryout was for "JV" and you made the team as long as you sign up on time. As many stated here, your focus should be the best player on the field. Come to the tryouts prepared and hustle your arse off...thing you CAN control.
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Turns out my school might not even have enough players for a freshman team. I was worried about the wrong things.
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That can happen a lot. You worry about you. Control what YOU can control--and that's you!!! Good luck.
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Incoming Recruiting Class Analysis
With all the discussion pertaining to changes in recruiting landscape (transfer portal, NIL, head coaching changes, etc) , over the last 2 weeks we did an internal project to understand the incoming recruiting class. Here is a 1st glance of our findings. Total Players is total number of new players on that season's roster Freshman - we've tagged true freshman vs covid or redshirt freshman Transfers -we've reconciled players that have transferred into new school Feedback appreciate.
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Once the season starts, we will be able to get better numbers. I think the numbers for PAC12 will be close. The majority of the CCCAA Juco players go D2
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If I did the math correctly, that is an average of 16 new players per team each year with an average of 45% attrition (roster turnover) rate. P5 sports ... get them in, chew them up, and spit them out.
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Looks like Washington went only had 2 transfers for the 2023 season vs 2022 season
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Thanks CBI. Yeah I know the two big D2 conferences in CA are rostered very heavy JC and there are a few Pac schools that don't typically go that route (and that MANY CA JC players go all over the country at various levels). But I'm still used to seeing quite a few rostered on many of the other Pac schools, including those in the Pacific Northwest.
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Interesting data, thanks for sharing. Seems like fairly consistent ratio's across conferences and a general shift toward transfers but not a huge jump. The two things that stand out to me (OK, maybe a bit of captain obvious) is how little ACC makes use of Juco and that Pac12 is trending away from using Juco's with the West Coast always being such a hotbed of talented JC players.
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Note, the 2022 insights are based on the spring roster, so how many recruits did cut after the 2021 fall season
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Its almost like its a business. Every recruit should have ZERO excuse to as what the landscape is currently.
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Here is an up-to-date summary for P5 Incoming recruiting class for 2023 season
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fenway; Remember Delmon Young, now playing for the Melbourne Blues in Australia. One our Area Code players age 14. Bob
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https://twitter.c In other recruiting news......lol https://twitter.com/TEAMELITEN...135187618545664?s=20
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First off, great stuff @CollegebaseballInsights . Nothing like numbers to bring out the baseball geeks in all of us! Honestly, I'm not too surprised by the numbers given the transfer rules and JUCO activity. The college baseball machine (especially P5) as @mjd-dad noted is still the same...get the best talent in, chew them up and spit them out. Very underclassmen heavy as it has been for a long time. So, in my way of thinking college baseball hasn't changed much. The house always wins.
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These numbers support what some of us have been saying since Covid (and related rulings) changed the game. The emphasis in college baseball is on older players at the expense of younger players. It is by design, as MLB wants the college system to “employ” players that historically would be playing rookie ball or lower class A ball so they don’t have to. The cost of providing a place for those players has been shifted from MLB orgs to the college and university systems. College baseball has...
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Ridiculous. Nobody is questioning the young mans talent or the folks at TCU. What chaps my behind is that his travel team put that media package together and put their logo displayed prominently in the top right corner. Call me a grumpy old fart, but does this travel team really have an 8th graders long term best interests at heart or their own long term business interests? Did they even think this announcement over before releasing into the twittersphere? Where is Captain Obvious when you...
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One thing that strikes me about these numbers, if I'm reading them right, is that in most cases, the number of new (transfer+freshmen) players is more than half the total team, or even close to 2/3 of the team. I guess I would have expected it more like 1/3 (assuming that seniors are draft or done). The only ones below 35% are Notre Dame, Boston College, Penn State, Michigan, Stanford, Washington, Vanderbilt, and Florida. In the Big 12, no school is below 50% new players. That means that a...
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Like you said, your opinion separate from the thread with a lengthy discussion. The purpose is provide insights, as for other conferences, yes the data is available. It took significant effort to reconcile and data mine. Information can be obtained from the CBI website.
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@CollegebaseballInsights Nice work. But I still stand by my opinion that just because more transfers are coming into the top programs, does not mean that coaches aren't spending hours preparing the players for the upcoming season and perhaps for the draft because this is what they do. That has been that way since son was recruited. Very surprising is early RPI with mid D1 programs. I would like to see incoming analysis of perhaps one of those conferences. Let's see their incoming class...
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My son's HA D3 has two D1 transfers this season. This is a first for them. Strange days indeed.
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The problem is that most parents and players do not understand this. They see a big name school recruiting them, commit when they are 16, daddy is all proud to talk about how his son is going to be a star at State University, and then by Thanksgiving of the freshman year the coaching staff realizes that that he can't hit high velocity pitching, or throws 92 mph fastballs, but can't find the strike zone and they are encouraged to put their name in the transfer portal. Sometimes big name...
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Here's at least one reason why some D1 programs may be trending away from JUCO transfers - at least for the time being until the COVID classes cycle out. We've heard from a number of JUCO transfers (and/or parents) who aren't eligible at their D1 this year, or are hoping for a waiver, because they didn't satisfy the "percentage of degree completion" requirements after three years at JUCO. For any D1 athlete in any sport, when you're entering your 4th year of college attendance, your D1 must...
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I get it that most players and parents don’t understand this. But it’s absolutely the truth. That’s why I talk about it here and everywhere else I have a chance. I’m a player’s advocate above all else and I don’t think the current situation treats players very well. All you can do is try to educate people to the reality of what’s happening. It doesn’t help matters that some RCs at big name schools keep recruiting big classes of freshmen when they know that 50% of them will never wear a...
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I don’t see a solution until all the players with extra years of eligibility have aged out of college baseball. And even then I think the change needs to come from the side of the consumer (player & parents). They have to be more educated about the process and make more informed (and better) decisions. At the highest level of D1 the baseball programs are a business and are operated as such - and that’s no secret. So it should come as no surprise that decisions can be cold and hard.
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Adbono what is your solution? Maybe eliminate the Under 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, divisions for players who desire to play high level College baseball. 30 years ago this was our goal in SR. The local JC and State College supported this objective. Bob