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Coftex,

My lefty son is a high school 2010 student and plays band also. I would like to hear any input from this forum about Coftex's son and my son conflicts trying to do both and any ideas on how to approach college coaches.

My son is very good in math and wants to become an engineer after college. How is the baseball program for Purdue, MIT and Duke or other engineer colleges?

Thanks,
southlakedad

Engineering colleges? Texas A&M has one of the best in the country...also appeared in the Super Regionals this year. Could be worth some research.

SpringLions07,

Thanks for the reply. But my son is not interested Texas A&M right now. May be he will change his mind when he is in the senior year.

Coftx, Welcome to the HSBASEBALLWEB. I did not mean take over your post. I hope that someone will reply your post since we have the same questions in our mind.

southlakedad

Gentlemen,

Your college baseball coach is not likely to share your enthusiasm for anything that conflicts with baseball.............

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Originally posted by FormerObserver:
Gentlemen,

Your college baseball coach is not likely to share your enthusiasm for anything that conflicts with baseball.............

FO is correct, bless his heart.

SLD, doing baseball and engineering (at least at a decent engineering program) will be really, really tough. The best engineering schools in this area are A&M, Rice and Tech.

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Originally posted by FormerObserver:
Gentlemen,

Your college baseball coach is not likely to share your enthusiasm for anything that conflicts with baseball.............

That's for sure FO! No way in.......!

I would never suggest that you not attempt both BUT
I would suggest that it will be very difficult to pursue both a music degree and play college sports.

College athletics are very time intensive and I understand that music is as well. In fact, I know of at least 3 kids who entered college as music majors and changed degree plans because of the time that was required...music ceased to be fun and became more like a job. On the other side, several players dropped off of my son's JUCO team because of the intense work and time involved.

My son did theater, choir, and baseball in HS but has focused solely on baseball in college with no time for anything else. He did not even take theater classes as electives due to the time required - having done it in HS, he knew how much time commitment was needed.

In moving to a 4-year school, he is going to a university with a strong fine arts program. The coach was looking over his areas of interest and asked if he was intending to do performing arts. He said, "No."
The coach replied, "Good - I was a little worried. I don't think you could have done both."
My son agreed with him and said he knew he had to choose one over the other.

Since your boys are in band, I'm assuming that they know upper classmen who have entered college. They should discuss with them how they balance their schedule, when they have rehearsals, how much lab time is required, etc. Once you compare that to the baseball practice and game schedule, the question may be answered for you.

For my son, he still enjoys music by singing, and playing guitar. He takes care of the acting bug by hanging out with some friends that occasionally do improv stuff. He doesn’t dance anymore, which makes me sad, but he got a gig as the school mascot at basketball games because of his dancing ability. As I said, the school he is transferring to has a big performance arts dept so I imagine he will hook up with some people where he can dabble in that. As one scout told him a while back, the window of opportunity for baseball is really quite small. You can go back to performing later. That’s what he intends to do.

southlakedad,no problem. helpful info can come to all of us. why would a coach not be interested in kids that will not burn any of his scholarships. yes, he will have to keep his nose to the grindstone,but that is the way to be succesful.

bluesky....enjoyed reading your post. Good luck to your son in the future, whatever he ends up pursuing. Sounds like he's got a good head on his shoulders.