Millsaps College (MS)

You will not find a better baseball program than Millsaps. Coach Page in my book is one of the great college coaches in the country. He works hard building a program that the kids and their families are proud of.

His teams are good, well coached and beyond that full of terrific young men. They are at the top of their conference year in and year out.

My son has played against them for the past two years. He said one of the highlights of his college baseball career was the Crawfish feed that Millsaps hosted.

Good to hear. It's a really small school, but seems to have a winning team from what I can see. Much about the school fits into the profile he is looking for: urban, liberal arts, southern, academic, access to a medical university, undergrad research opportunities, and BASEBALL of course. I'll be very interested to see it in person.

quillgirl - infielddad had a really nice post earlier on today that echoed ILVBB. I suspect it may have gotten deleted somehow with the problems we had today with the website. Perhaps he can repost his thoughts or you can send him a pm.

Thanks, ClevelandDad. i'll PM him. Sorry I missed it.

Uh, what happened to my post?
Julie???? Well, as CD said, I did one.
Some comments on Millsaps and and the staff.
First, they have a very nice baseball facility and I understand it has been upgraded quite a bit since I last saw it.
Coach Page seems to recruit kids who play the game hard and at a high level of intensity.
That is the way he coaches. It is hard to put in words the level of intensity with which he coaches and with which his teams play/compete. When I first saw it, I found it a bit disconcerting. the more I saw it, the more I recognized what he does. It isn't always "cool" or "collected." He challenges and is a tenacious competitor.
He also recruits very high quality people and the quality of sportsmanship when the last out has been recorded is pretty amazing. This is the part I remember more than anything, I think.
As some evidence of the respect within his peer group, Coach Page was asked to do the presentation on hitting at the 2008 ABCA convention. That is no surprise. His kids can hit. As my son's former roommate, a DIII All-American pitcher, used to describe, Millsaps has a a bunch of DI hitters with some DIII body types.
One thing that is no secret is the intensity of the Millsaps-Trinity rivalry in baseball. Both head coaches are intense, competitive and fiery. I would bet there aren't any college baseball games played, at any level, with more intensity than the competition in those games.
With that said, when the last out is recorded, the level of sportsmanship that emanates in each dugout is amazing. Coach Page, just like Coach Scannell, seems to teach his players to leave it all on the field..and they do.
They play hard, they play well and they respect their opponents.
To this day, my son raves about Coach Page and his players.
If your son has an opportunity to play for Coach Page, he surely will be challenged to become a very good player but he will be coached by a very good coach. He will also learn many things about how to handle winning and losing and respect.

Thanks for reposting, infielddad. Interesting and intriguing assessment.

I played football and baseball at Millsaps College and both of the programs are top tier programs. Last year we even beat Jacksonville State at their own field. As for the facilities they are not bad, don't believe the grandstand lie though if they feed that one to you. Excellent academics. it is an expensive school though

Grandstand lie? Explain...

Responding to Jonathan Brady's "grandstand lie"... There is no "lie" per se. Coach Page and the Athletic department have had plans years on putting in a top notch grandstand behind the backstop (which he obviously would show to prospective athletes who visit the school) and the school simply hasent followed their own word or promise and allocated the funds to build the stands. There is no "grandstand lie." Quillgirl, I can assure you, as will any other alumni from the Millsaps and other SCAC schools (as noted previously in this thread) that Millsaps and the athletic program will never let a student or his parents down.

As for the school being expensive... as the saying goes you get what you pay for. If the prospective student takes his grades/academics seriously and applies with some credentials he/she will be handsomly rewarded in scholarships which will drastically reduce the price of the highly touted education. Lastly, to put this all in prospective; it is my understanding that of the 2005-2006 Millsaps baseball team alone there are over an estimated 4 or 5 in Medical School, 8 or 9 in Law School, 2 or 3 in PT School, and 10 who completed their Masters in Business Administration, and most importantly all of the kids who play for Coach Page will be forced to succeed in the classroom and Graduate College.

Point Being: You cant go wrong.

Thanks. That's helpful. We're looking forward to visiting in the near future and watching a game.

Actually, I looked up the cost at Millsaps and compared it with some of the other schools in that conference and it is not nearly as expensive as some of them. In fact, I thought it was rather affordable for a private college.

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It's also been in my experience that the private schools try to award scholarships and grants to students to bring the cost down to the cost of public schools. Of course, things may have changed due to the economy, but I sure hope not.