How long is a 4-year college baseball career - barring no red shirting or extensions on eligibility for other reasons?
End to end, from start to finish, is it safe to say it's about 200 weeks, give or take?
Seems fast when you look at it that way. Weeks can tick off faster than you think sometimes.
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It is both a blur and a very long journey. As parent I have have enjoyed it immensely and oddly I am also ready for it to end. I think the key for me is I know in my heart he is ready for it to end...here is to one more great spring!
@old_school posted:It is both a blur and a very long journey. As parent I have have enjoyed it immensely and oddly I am also ready for it to end. I think the key for me is I know in my heart he is ready for it to end...here is to one more great spring!
I can see how it can be long and a blur at the same time. Enjoy the spring!
@old_school posted:It is both a blur and a very long journey. As parent I have have enjoyed it immensely and oddly I am also ready for it to end. I think the key for me is I know in my heart he is ready for it to end...here is to one more great spring!
This board keeps me thinking about when my kids played from preteen through college. At 33 and 28 they almost never mention anything about their journey. Anything connected to the journey is about teammates who became friends they still have contact. The conversation about former teammates is more likely about jobs and kids and not baseball/softball.
I rarely replay my playing days. It only happens when a friend brings it up. It’s why I stopped going to the high school Thanksgiving Day game. It was three hours of “remember when” on the field. What I’m more likely to look back on is the friendship and the pranks we played on each other.
@RJM posted:This board keeps me thinking about when my kids played from preteen through college. At 33 and 28 they almost never mention anything about their journey. Anything connected to the journey is about teammates who became friends they still have contact. The conversation about former teammates is more likely about jobs and kids and not baseball/softball.
100% RJM. The only time I've heard my son ever bring up one of his college baseball experiences was at his wedding when he had about 6-7 former teammates in attendence. Otherwise a typical conversation with him is about his teammates, what they are doing and where they are living.
I stay in touch with my former college teammates, but we rarely talk about our college sporting experiences. It is always about family, career, and when and where we are going to get together next. Nobody wants to be Al Bundy or Uncle Rico. For those that have played college sports you know how many talented athletes are out there in the world. It can be very humbling.
My middle son and youngest son are the same way. They don't talk about their high school experiences only what is going on with former teammates. Just this past weekend, one of my middle son's high school teammates passed away at 25 years old. Great kid and very sad situation.
In the early 90s, through my wife's family, I was introduced to another family where the father was a former major league baseball player in the late 60s and early 70s.
Of course I was aware of his playing career.
But, my wife's family warned me: Don't bring up baseball because he never talks about it. You can ask him about golf, Wall Street or just about anything. But, he never talks about playing baseball.
And this was a guy who was a teammate of some Hall of Famers.
ah, Uncle Rico.....my favorite uncle....
for the uninitiated:
My husband was a starter on the first 15 seed to beat a 2 seed in the NCAA mens basketball tournament so that comes up every year. Now the “uncles” (including one college WBB coach, an NBA ref, a sports agent and an associate head NBA coach) get together in Chicago to go to one of my daughters games. She has the tallest, most knowledgeable fan base in the world. :-) Last year one of the guy’s son came (he’s a 6’7” 16 year old) and he told his dad on the way home “That’s why I want to play in college. To have those kinds of friendships.”
@PTWood posted:My husband was a starter on the first 15 seed to beat a 2 seed in the NCAA mens basketball tournament so that comes up every year. Now the “uncles” (including one college WBB coach, an NBA ref, a sports agent and an associate head NBA coach) get together in Chicago to go to one of my daughters games. She has the tallest, most knowledgeable fan base in the world. :-) Last year one of the guy’s son came (he’s a 6’7” 16 year old) and he told his dad on the way home “That’s why I want to play in college. To have those kinds of friendships.”
I watched that game since I was/am a Syracuse alum.......I don't talk about it anymore either, just like I don't talk about the 1987 NCAA men's national championship game. I have a burning hate for Indiana though but not Richmond. I really wanted one of my kids to go to Richmond, it is a great school. Kenny Wood - 12 pts, 7 boards against a very talented Syracuse team.
Funny I don't talk about my bb career either.
Mostly because I sucked though.
