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Re: enough advice...thanks...
I'm not surprised. I bit my tongue through this entire thread...if you weren't going to listen, another voice probably wouldn't have convinced you.
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What about the meeting didn't go well? Heck, what was the meeting even about, I'm still unclear on that. As for that article...um....yeah....um.....while I do agree that if you take time to show up to a tryout a coach should look at you....I would also agree that if everyone is a foot taller than you and outweighs you by 50 pounds, and the coach is looking to form a Major team, then the coach probably won't look long. That IS youth baseball, and it is why there are Major, AAA, AA, and A...
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I just read the travel moms article. It's a typical whiny, parent doesn't get it story. So what if your kid didn't make the team last year and got two hits off them this year. Maybe he wasn't good enough last year. The whiny parent didn't seem to mention whether his kid's team won or lost. It's not hard to tell when a parent didn't go far in the game. Payback is nice. But it's not motivation. A "player" is motivated by the desire to succeed every game regardless of the competition. Do I...
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I would like to dedicate a song to this thread. I hadn't thought of this song, nor heard it in years until just now. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qjp_iG9vzEU
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come on man you should know, although a little whining is acceptable.... there is absolutely no crying allowed in baseball. Got to see Joe once in a bar setting , probably less than 30 people there, wow what a show.
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Did I miss a post somewhere? I've been waiting in anticipation for what happened and all the OP said was "Well, that didn't go well... we had the meeting"? Maybe there's a deleted post somewhere?
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Looks like OP went back and deleted all his previous posts. Can someone fill those of us who missed it in on what happened?
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What we were told: Kid makes varsity as a pitcher last year in 8th grade, this year, kid gets sent home from practice and parent gets email complaining about kids' attitude. Parent decides that the coach is wrong (and implied abuse), and meets with him (despite many people here saying that was the wrong approach.) Meeting didn't go well. My assessment: Parent doesn't listen well, which means that kid doesn't listen well. It was a whole bunch of "everyone else is wrong" (posters here, the...
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Thanks Matt. I've been keeping up with the back story. Just can't believe all he said was the meeting didn't go well, then delete everything he had written. Thought we would have gotten a few more specifics on the meeting itself.
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This is a perfect example of wasted bandwidth from people who have no clue on how this all works, which is usually a parent who thinks that their pre HS player is a stud and the coach is the bad guy. Parent didnt get the response they wanted so deleted everything after you all spend time giving advice, grrrrrr.
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Actually whining isn't acceptable. It's deplorable. But I'll bet most posters have slipped up at least once. I was on a ledge when my son tore up his knee the first weekend of post junior year showcasing. The reality is whining doesn't accomplish anything. It's better just to state the circumstances to the best of your ability and ask what people think. I played college ball. By the time my son got to varsity (soph year) I had coached 18u showcase softball and 16u baseball. I've seen a lot.
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It's very disrespectful to delete posts after people take time to respond and offer help. Some of it might be criticism. But it's still help. Plus the situation may come up for someone else with the responses supplying the answers.
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Mchlwlsh, I get it if you got miffed at some of the insulting comments. I get it if things didn't go well with the meeting. But I would like to point out a few things. One, you have a young aspiring player - this site is a REALLY good resource that can help you both through the next 4-6 years. I would encourage you to stay connected here. Two, there are many who took time to try and help you on this thread. When we do so, we are trying to help you, the OP, but also others who may find...
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This thread has run its course. Mchlwlsh asked to have his account deleted and his request was granted. After deleting his account, his posts went away. Thread closed.
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Re: Coach hand wrote letter?
Probably a good indication.... unless it looks like girl's writing, gets his name wrong and asks him to come to camp for just $299 Usually, a personal hand written is a good sign but those sneaky marketing departments these days... depends what it says.
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I thought that a D-I College Coach could not contact a freshman or sophomore recruit either by phone or letter. Am I wrong on this?
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It is mailed to the school to the high school coach in regards to the player.
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DAG, as a former D1 compliance director, I'm curious to know (although I don't expect you to say publicly) whether the letter was written to the coach about your son (which I would view as borderline acceptable), or whether it was written as if being sent directly to your son (crossing the line in my opinion)? Congrats to your son on getting that level of interest as a sophomore! However, if a coach is playing loose with the rules while recruiting your son, will he be playing loose with...
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Re: Engineering Schools with Baseball
I assume he is a 2017. Rose-hulman (Indiana I believe) is one of the country's premier engineering schools. Ratio of men/women skewed a bit. If he wants a path which ends in a great job - though the school is in the northeast - the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (low end D3) in King's Point could be an option (or, even the other service academies [though those are D1)). Many D3s have 3-2 engineering programs which may or may not interest him. Are you sure he isn't D1? His velo could be fine -...
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DKRAUS, As you are discovering, there is no easy button when it comes to baseball and engineering.....in my experience there will be trade offs and/or compromises. It sounds to me like you've discovered this. First, in our experience there were a lot more options in the Northeast however those are mostly private schools. The southern schools that had engineering were mostly large state schools and therefore D1 schools. So when you say south exactly what do you mean? Southeast, southwest?
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In D3, Washington and Lee, Trinity (Tx) are the ones that come to mind that have engineering. Many others in D3 have 3/2 or 4/1 programs.
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Rose-Hulman, While not really south is located in Terre Haute Indiana. So I would not consider it north east, more mid west. If you can live with Ohio weather there is also Ohio Northern. Their baseball team is full of Engineering Majors. If you want warm weather check out Harvey Mudd College. It is one of the Claremont schools and combines with other colleges to form the Claremont - Mudd - Scripps baseball team. https://www.hmc.edu/ http://www.cmsathletics.org/sports/bsb/index And if your...
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I sent you a PM DKraus, look at the upper right hand of your screen and click on your name and look for "Private Messages".
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How about D2? UCSD - high academic, top engineering school, D2 baseball.
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Thanks for all the input. CalTech had contacted him, he was concerned about the "whole" college experience as their student body was only 1000 kids. He is a 2016 grad but i thought that if there was a school that wanted him he could get in despite not applying (i guess i might be wrong here). We had talked to RoseHulman but believe it or not we were too late - they had capped admissions. He has been accepted to Texas A&M (obviously just academics) but just seeing if we've missed...
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What about Harvey Mudd? Small school, but not really as it's part of one community with the other Claremont colleges. I believe we have a user whose son is headed there soon, so he may chime in.
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Some good feedback already. There are a lot of options, from the more technically oriented schools (e.g., RPI, Rose Hulman, CalTech, Florida Institute of Technology, et.al.) to colleges with more limited engineering offerings (e.g., Trinity TX, Trinity CT, Lafayette, et.al.). As a former electrical engineering major and a hiring manager of thousands of engineers over time, I'll add that computer science can be an awesome path too, and one that is more widely available including at many...
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Your son is a 2016 like mine. HM is not an option at this point. My son was verbaled there contingent upon getting through admissions. He ended up not getting admitted even when he was on the coaches supported list. UCSD is also done with their recruiting except for maybe a stud pitcher. They too have already sent out their admissions. My son like yours will be majoring in engineering. He was accepted into some very good schools UCLA, UCSD as well as AF Academy. Wherever he goes he will...
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Standballdad makes a good point. It's late! BTW my eldest is an engineering student at UCSB and he has friends who play club baseball at both his school and Cal Poly and love it. That's another way to stay in the game.
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You pretty much have everyone that was on my son's list. UCSD is likely not an option due to cost and lack of scholarship $$ since you are out of state. It looks like you are from San Antonio and likely Trinity is too close to home but they have an amazing new engineering facility, which you are probably aware of. If my son got into Cal Tech I would highly encourage him to go there, that is a life changing school. It is possible to get into Mudd by going to Claremont and keeping a min 3.0 in...
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My son is a 2017, but otherwise sounds like an almost identical situation for him lies ahead. Will graduate as 17 year old, so he is at a bit of a disadvantage physically. Almost 6' tall but struggles to stay above 170. He is positive he wants to do mechanical engineering, so we've gone through the same search for engineering schools that have baseball programs that are not part of the elite D1s, and then expanded to D2 (where we have found few matches beyond UC-San Diego) and D3. One site I...
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I had suspected it was late at this point, just thought i'd throw it out there for any last ideas. He will likely try walking on or playing club ball. His academics are top priority.
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It's really late for acceptance to college. At this point any interested D3 would tell your son, sure walk on. It's a crap shoot. The coach has already recruited the six to eight studs he was looking for. You might want to consider club baseball at Texas A&M. Club teams don't travel as far as varsity programs. Homework and grades is more of a priority than baseball. At a school like Texas A&M the team might be a bunch of players who tried to walk on or washed out of the program and...
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Just an update on UCSD potentially moving to D1: http://www.sandiegouniontribun...division-one-change/
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Trine in Angola, Indiana, is another engineering D3. It's about 30 minutes from Fort Wayne, 1 hour Toledo and 1 1/2 hours from Detroit. A lot of guys on the baseball team are studying either Engineering or Business.
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Another couple thoughts as you are considering southern D3 engineering schools: 1) You can use this tool to generate your list. http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/ I just used it based on the information you provided, and as expected it is slim plickings. You may want to expand your geography beyond the south which is exactly what my son did a bunch of years ago. He grew up in Virginia but ended up going to school in the northeast. 2) You'll want to verify the college's engineering...
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Thanks for all the input has been very helpful his select coach wants him to play college ball but also knows finding the right mix w academics is important and he continues to get looks on field level; at this point its really in gods hands