Northwest recruiting thoughts

Really informative post. But to get on my soapbox again.... He says "grades aren't really important".

I heartily disagree after hearing of many CA players @ CA colleges that will not be playing this spring because they are academically ineligible. I guess it depends on the quarter or semester system as to when they might be eligible to play. I won't name names but these kids are at several high profile colleges, highly recruited, and won't be playing because they didn't make grades. Hopefully they'll figure it out and be better able to juggle all the demands of college academics and baseball.

Interesting! Appears fully biased and somewhat uneducated by the comment of the draft and follow.
Also, if UCLA has all those stud pitchers, why are they not contenders every year? Those velocities are definitely MLB draft potential. Obviously, our moderators on the HSBW are far superior because I would like to think they would have closed that post very early.

Man, that thread made my head spin after reading it! I feel nauseated now.

Yes, I should have mentioned to read only the original poster's comment. It got into a shouting match after that.

I thought the OP made some good points about less exposure available for players from the NW. But.....

His comments about over recruiting and subsequent "revocation" of scholarships were sufficiently vague that I can't say for sure he is wrong, but if I understood him correctly, he seems to say that a freshman could arrive on campus, with >50% scholarship, and end up cut and without a scholarship before the fall is over. That is incorrect.

His comments about "early signing" are certainly incorrect, although he may have meant "verbally commit" rather than "sign". Players cannot “sign” at any time other than one week in November of their senior year and then after April of the senior year.

His assertion that blue chippers don't sign until the "winter of their senior year" is wrong, even if he actually meant a verbal commitment. Simply looking at the lists of college commitments, and comparing them to lists of top players shows that most blue chippers sign during the early signing week in November.

Finally, he uses himself to illustrate how player rankings can be incorrect. That example is more than a decade out of date.

All of this makes me wonder if he is really plugged into the world of college baseball as it exists today.

I used to visit that forum a lot (we are officially Washington residents even though we don't live there), but found out quickly that a lot of people post uninformed things, or outright fiction at times, and every thread dissolves rapidly into name-calling and worse. Little to no moderation. I haven't visited that forum in a couple years for the reasons mentioned. I got nothing out of it.

There's a lot of Baseball talent in the NW.
That for some reason will never get a chance to see a college campus.
I'm going to try and give my observation and thoughts on this from a first hand view.
I'm from the NW, near Tacoma. Born and raised.
Moved to N.Cali. in 2002.
Son started his freshman year in HS that year.
I can honestly say, that whats happened to him Acadamically and his Baseball so far (Drafted out of HS, currently playing high level D1 college baseball)
Never would of happened in the NW. He may of been playing JC.
Are working for a living in a trade school apprenticeship.

And I'm going to tell you why I believe that.
The attitude of the parent's and there player.

Parents believe that if your good enough they will find you.
It won't happen, not unless your Travis Snider.

And Travis did a lot of travelling outside of the NW.

I found that if you want something you have to go out and find it.
You have to be willing to make calls, Be ProActive.
Take advantage of the opportuinities that present themselves.
Nobody's going to be looking for you.
Of the Players that did make it to college outside of the NW Played ball Outside of the NW first.

JMHO.
EH