Today I have been listening to a number of players who were coached by Bill Walsh. Universally, when asked, they attribute their success to Bill Walsh's unique ability to identify their strengths as a player and to game coach to those strengths through schemes and plays.
When our son was scouted in high school and for professional ball, he was always lucky to find a coach or scout who saw something but, frankly, they seemed to be in the minority.
CD's son is a very good example of a rather "lightly" recruited player who has blossomed to be a core part of a now top 25 college program.
When ours did play in college, summer wood bat leagues, and then professionally, he did more than fine. In fact, in professional ball, coaches were amongst his biggest supporters in the organization where others often control player personnel decisions.
With Bill Walsh as a background, do others believe baseball players be successful with certain coaches in college because of their approach and "scheme" of coaching baseball and coaching games. Or, does baseball expose your "weaknesses" in ways good coaches cannot overcome?.
Is the Bill Walsh approach unique to a sport like football?
While I don't mean to single out CD's son, I think players like Tyler are a wonderful focus for the question. Would he have been successful at any DI program or is there something about his college coaching staff that permits his strengths to dominate over perceived weaknesses in college baseball and beyond?
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