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Baseball Early Signees to College early?

P Prime91,000+ posts
I was reading an AJC Sports article today about the ever increasingly popular occurance of HS Football players to graduate early (Fall) and enroll at their soon to be college (believe they will sign in February). Thus, getting a head start on classes, conditioning, etc., to gain a competitive edge for their Fall season.

With Colleges seemingly wanting to get their Baseball recruiting classes firmed up with early signings (in November), would it make sense for signed HS Baseball player to graduate early and begin College classes beginning with the Winter semester? Presumably their would be the same advantages a football player would gain but he would miss the 25-35 games of his Senior season.
Could this happen? How would the early semester be handled financially? Could he use Team on-field facilities for hitting or fielding? I would guess he couldn't practice with the team?
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H Homerun041,000+ posts
Football timing is different than baseball timing, they can bring in a Sr out of high school, get them after they finish their last season and get them in the weight room, pump them with "supplements", get them introduced to the offensive and defensive schemes and be ready for the fall. As well as the academic advantage of taking classes in the spring and summer before going into the fall.

Where as in baseball, coming in the winter would start their clock in the spring season and require them to skip their Sr season and they would play immediately in the spring. They also have to start to take college classes in their first semester.

There are many football players who do that, there are only a few baseball players who are ready to do it. Some that recently did that in Calif, really did not do that amazingly (Stock -USC and Thompson -LB State).
TPMTPMHSBaseballweb Member since 2003
Stock was an exception, he needed some time to grow up in college and switch to catching position before his next draft.
My son was asked to come early (give up his last year of HS season), but since the coach didn't have the money, we would pay full for the semester, he would part of the team. The only benefit was that he would be in an earlier draft.
There are exceptions, since many football players become redshirts anyway, and because of how their season falls, it might work better to begin earlier.
Coach_MayCoach_May10,000+ posts
Prime the young player PG refers to is my sons room mate in college. Tremendous player and tremendous young man. It takes a kid that is not only very talented but ready to make the move to college a year early. It can be done just like playing two sports in college can be done. But it is rare and I believe will continue to be rare. Many college coaches suggest players attend summer school prior to their freshman year. Some do.
M MClements10+ posts
The student-athlete mentioned earlier is quite an unique situation. Excellent student - which goes without saying to be able to graduate early and be academically prepared for college - in addition to being a fantastic baseball player, great team mate and very mature and well spoken young man.

His roommate is also quite a young man as well and I expect to shine on and off the field. The apple did not fall far from the tree.
C catfish342100+ posts
That player also gives up the possibility of being drafted after his senior year of high school. As others have said, both UNC's Levi Michael and Clemson's Kyle Parker are extremely talented players, as evidenced by the fact that they had remarkable freshman seasons in a tough conference like the ACC in what should have been their senior seasons in high school. Definitely the exception to the rule.

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