Diary of a Freshman at D1 P5 baseball Team

I am so excited to read this thread in the future!

And he is trying to get parents to leave faster!

Ditched parents and with guys at field hitting and fielding. No practice until Tues!

@Good Knight posted:

Team met him to move into room.

Damn this room is small!

And these people are grown ass men!

Walked over to locker room etc. Very cool.

Spotted Gable Stevenson in the dorm (Gold Medal wrestler).

Wow Seniors picked us up and took to a casino(18 yo ok in Minnesota).

I just love it here! Of course classes have not started  and no practice yet.

To be continued....

Good stuff!

At MN they have a beautiful athletes village of sorts. My daughter's best friend and her sister both play hockey at the U.

Mystic Lake (aka Mistake Lake) is very popular with the 18-21 year old males in MN and only 20-30 min from campus.

You betcha!

My first words in Minnesotan.

Yes, college dorm rooms are small. It helps train them for their first apartments.

GK, have you relocated to MN to follow the Gophers more closely?

Have not, but do have a lake house North of Duluth.

I want a lake house north of Duluth. It would be far superior to anything I have now.

Well from huron in I will keep that in mind.

It is actually erie how much we think alike.

You guys are making me reflect on who Ron Guidry was and why isn't he in the HOF?

Ok I will stop.

I really mich Egan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoDw-7cePas

3 Lakes, that video!! 😄

Day 2

BB locker room shares a restroom with wrestling team. Those dudes are crazy.When I get the nerve I will wear my IOWA Spencer Lee tee.

Up early and off to lift at 7.

Some of these guys are 23!!

Brought along my photo of Floyd Of Rosedale just in case anyone from Minnesota has never seen it (IOWA has 6? in a row).

Roommate moves in this evening.

Others showing up all day today.

Ohio State game tomorrow night.

The fun never ends..until 1st practice Tues?

26 years old!  Amazing

How 26?

I guess you could be old for your grade, reclassed in HS, got a redshirt and then a COVID-19 NCAA pass...maybe that makes you a 26 year old senior?

Or it is also possible that I don't type worth a damn. 23

@Good Knight posted:

Or it is also possible that I don't type worth a damn. 23

LOL!

We have a 6 year senior this year so it is possible to be 25 easily.  26 might be pushing it.  I have heard of a 7 year guy.  Got Covid year and somehow got 2 redshirt years which I did not know was possible.

Lots of athletes still moving in.

Making lots of hockey friends (who knew?).

Attending a lot of Freshman orientation stuff and boring him to death.

Made a trip across the river to Business school. This will be huge fun in the Winter with the wind blowing.

Announced a Walk-on try out day Monday for Mn Students.

Tried to lift at baseball facility but not allowed until physicals so use campus work out instead?

Roomate arrived from Southern Kentucky ( wait until he sees Minnesota snow!!)

Attended pep rally for Ohio State game!

Walked thru Dinky town shops and neighborhood.

This is damn fun without practices or classes..

Reality comes Tues!

While visiting Minneapolis in March I was surprised how many people were tanned. I was told by February a lot of people are crazy to get away for a week or two.

@Francis7 posted:

How 26?

I guess you could be old for your grade, reclassed in HS, got a redshirt and then a COVID-19 NCAA pass...maybe that makes you a 26 year old senior?

I know a 2018 who blew out his arm right before 2019 season (19yrs old). Medical Redshirt.  Had TJ surgery.  Wanted to come home for rehab so dropped down.  Was starting to come back at local JUCO 2020- COVID (20yrs old).  Liked the PC at JUCO and was seeing pretty substantial velocity gains decided to stay, declined several D1 offers.  Played 2021 season at JUCO (21yrs old). And just started school at an SEC.  Given this kid turned down USC because they didn't offer him enough money, I'm guessing a fair amount of money involved. So he's 22 and has 4 years of eligibility....26 is not so far fetched.

@Good Knight posted:

Or it is also possible that I don't type worth a damn. 23

Lol!!!

At the field hitting and fielding the guys.

Had EKG and awaiting physicals so they can lift.

Got fitted for clothes and uniforms.

Excited for classes and practice to start Tuesday.

Will probably go see walk on try outs Monday.

@Good Knight posted:

At the field hitting and fielding the guys.

Had EKG and awaiting physicals so they can lift.

Got fitted for clothes and uniforms.

Excited for classes and practice to start Tuesday.

Will probably go see walk on try outs Monday.

Walk on tryouts are something to see to say the least. Occasionally a good player will attend, but most participants are pretty bad - and I’m being kind. At my Alma Mater our HC referred to them as “the amazings”…… b/c the general level of skill was amazing, but not in a good way.

Makes we want to go watch too.

Hockey is bigtime at Minnesota.  Go Badgers!  

One of Seths friends also plays for Wisconsin Hockey. Was on Nat Team. Told him to beware of those hockey girls.

@Good Knight posted:

Makes we want to go watch too.

I played JuCo ball my freshman year in south Texas. One of the first days a few of us on the team that already knew each other were talking on campus and a guy we didn’t recognize walked up and joined the conversation. He introduced himself as Junior from Corpus Christi. My roommate said to Junior, “what’s your story, are you walking on?” Apparently not familiar with the term (walk-on) Junior’s response was, “no man, I drove my car.” He was thereafter known as “Junior the Drive-on.” He was gone before the first roster cut but the name lives on.

Good Knight;

thank you for the reports on Minnesota Baseball from the eyes of a FRESHMAN.

My 1st year at MSU 90 years ago, the 5,000 freshman assembled in an audience with the School President.

He said "look to your left and then look to your right"! "They will not be here in 4 years".

Bob

@Good Knight posted:

One of Seths friends also plays for Wisconsin Hockey. Was on Nat Team. Told him to beware of those hockey girls.

In general it’s good to avoid the jersey chasers, period.

Got a number (30) and a cool locker. A plaque on it with “The Legacy of Number 30” and each player with years played. Pretty cool.

After hitting and fielding with the team the impression is: “wow these guys are sure big”.

First team meal in the athlete village nutrition center.

Next a few weeks of practices and intra-squad games to sort out who can play.

Getting real. Then time management becomes paramount trying to balance pitching, school work and 2 way.

We will see.

@3and2Fastball posted:

In general it’s good to avoid the jersey chasers, period.

When I played we called them jock sniffers.

@RJM posted:

When I played we called them jock sniffers.

That’s what they call the male athletes these days that put other athletes their own age on a pedestal. The “jock sniffers” talk endlessly and breathlessly about how great so and so is, etc.  …it’s a part of the social media culture that the current crop of kids grew up in …To me, the children of helicopter parents who buy into the local child celebrity paradigm  are particularly annoying, but it was very easy for me to raise my kids to gain a mental edge on kids like that.

This “jock sniffer” discussion is DOA.

Who are we to determine what person (of any gender) is engaging with persons because of their sport, or because they are a teen/twentyX who is figuring out who they want to be with? This devolution of the thread reads like a frat text (which we didn’t have when I was in college).

We call them Cleat Chasers and I warned all three of my boys about them.  It is interesting to watch them at work.  They will sit outside the player's gate after the games.  I told son to avoid at all cost.

Has shared about the baseball house parties as well or is he keeping it on point?