Coach Walter Wake Forest

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Is your son going in-state?

This is not meant directly at Coach Walters, as I know nothing of the man...

However, to come out and give an enthusiastic seal of approval for a coach where your son has yet to play a single day, is quite premature.

Over 1/2 the success in the game of college baseball is recruiting. Coaches get hired for a number of reasons, not the least of which is charisma and recruiting skill. The fact that the head coach at a D1 like WF is charismatic and can win over the hearts and minds of potential recruits and their families, is his job...and obviously he has done a good job.

I have sat in on a few recruiting sessions, and listened to HC's try and woo my son and us. Tell us all sorts of things...in some instances, whatever it was we wanted to hear, with no regard for truth or reality. It's just the way it is.

So for all those players and parents that think they got the right guy for a coach, I sincerely hope you do. However, it might be prudent to reserve judgment until Junior actually plays a season for him before you start handing out the accolades and rousing endorsements.

JMHO

If he wins, he won't have any reason to leave. The athletic department will probably back a Brink's truck up to his house if he does well.

For those interested:

We have had players with Coach Wilk at GW when he was there they had no complaints

The Two Assistants Coach Healy and Coach Cilento I know well---great young men with superb baseball minds and great recruiters


WF will be fine in their hands

CPLZ wrote:

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So for all those players and parents that think they got the right guy for a coach, I sincerely hope you do. However, it might be prudent to reserve judgment until Junior actually plays a season for him before you start handing out the accolades and rousing endorsements.

The guy who handed out the accolades is saying that his son will NEVER play for Walter. So, I don't see the harm in someone saying something nice about someone else as a parting comment. Hear, hear!

Me, I hear lots of good things, but I know nothing from first-hand experience yet. I'm just hoping all the good things turn out to be true!