rice is still the best 
Rice has nothing to hang there head's about.
Great Team that's for sure.
Great Team that's for sure.
InfieldDad,
I like reading your posts about those Stanford teams. I have had the priviledge of getting to know Sam Fuld over the past few years and having him teach my son from time to time. He is a first class young man all the way and had nothing but great things to say about the Stanford program and the life lessons he learned in baseball while he was there.
Sam co-led a Thanksgiving baseball camp a couple of years ago that my son attended and I was impressed with how good he handled kids of various ages, and how when the camp was done he emphasized education & grades first!
He really stressed that if you were playing sports in HS and then later in college how important time management and communication with your teachers/professors was. It helped my son a lot. He had heard the same speech from Mom & Dad for years, but this was a real player who had just finished going through college. It was great for my son, who is an excellent student, to hear that even the best of players in college have to manage their time and structure their days to get both the education and athletic goals that they desire.
As far as the Rice players behavior, one does not expect them to act like choirboys in that situation, but by the same token conducting ones' self with dignity in public in defeat is a lesson all athletes should have learned before they got to this point. EVERY team in confernce tournaments, reginoals, super regionals and the CWS (except OSU) had their season end like this, did everyone handle it like Rice did? Not from what I saw on the games I was able to see.
My son's HS team hosted a first round play-off game this season, and lost 10-5 to a lower seed. The team had nine seniors. They were not a happy group obviously when the game ended, but I was proud of how they conducted themselves. The team went down to the left field corner for their usual post game talk.
After afew minutes there was some laughter as one of the seniors cracked some joke and broke the mood. After that there were cheers for each senior as the coach acknowledged each for his commitment to the program over the past 4 yrs. I can only hope my son conducts himself in a similar fashion when his HS career ends.
You pegged it with your son's situations. Every big moment they experience means the world at that particular moment. The moment passes with success or failure, and they have to move on to the next moment. It is not to say that emotion should not be released, but there are reasonable limits.
I wish more coaches would sit a player throwing equipment or a tantrum because things didn't break his way.
These kids better get used to it, life after baseball is full of up & downs. Most supervisors in the real world are not going to put up with running around the office busting things up when a situation does not go your way.
I like reading your posts about those Stanford teams. I have had the priviledge of getting to know Sam Fuld over the past few years and having him teach my son from time to time. He is a first class young man all the way and had nothing but great things to say about the Stanford program and the life lessons he learned in baseball while he was there.
Sam co-led a Thanksgiving baseball camp a couple of years ago that my son attended and I was impressed with how good he handled kids of various ages, and how when the camp was done he emphasized education & grades first!
He really stressed that if you were playing sports in HS and then later in college how important time management and communication with your teachers/professors was. It helped my son a lot. He had heard the same speech from Mom & Dad for years, but this was a real player who had just finished going through college. It was great for my son, who is an excellent student, to hear that even the best of players in college have to manage their time and structure their days to get both the education and athletic goals that they desire.
As far as the Rice players behavior, one does not expect them to act like choirboys in that situation, but by the same token conducting ones' self with dignity in public in defeat is a lesson all athletes should have learned before they got to this point. EVERY team in confernce tournaments, reginoals, super regionals and the CWS (except OSU) had their season end like this, did everyone handle it like Rice did? Not from what I saw on the games I was able to see.
My son's HS team hosted a first round play-off game this season, and lost 10-5 to a lower seed. The team had nine seniors. They were not a happy group obviously when the game ended, but I was proud of how they conducted themselves. The team went down to the left field corner for their usual post game talk.
After afew minutes there was some laughter as one of the seniors cracked some joke and broke the mood. After that there were cheers for each senior as the coach acknowledged each for his commitment to the program over the past 4 yrs. I can only hope my son conducts himself in a similar fashion when his HS career ends.
You pegged it with your son's situations. Every big moment they experience means the world at that particular moment. The moment passes with success or failure, and they have to move on to the next moment. It is not to say that emotion should not be released, but there are reasonable limits.
I wish more coaches would sit a player throwing equipment or a tantrum because things didn't break his way.
These kids better get used to it, life after baseball is full of up & downs. Most supervisors in the real world are not going to put up with running around the office busting things up when a situation does not go your way.
"one does not expect them to act like choirboys in that situation"
Interesting statement..
A few posts implying how dare they or don't they know the camera is on them makes me think that some think they (players) are choir boys. These guys are 18-22 y/os old playing for that dream they have had since they were 5 y/o. Can one get wrapped up in a situation?
You bet.
In my job, a recorder is listening to every word that is going on in a cardiac arrest call.
Besides some rookies, everyone knows they are being recorded, yet an occasional curse word or a oops may slip by. The point is... a world of extreme emotion can cause people to react poorly or with stand from cracking.
I personally didnt have a problem with it. A very poor call and the player reacted very professionally. He discussed the call calmly with the ump and walked back to the dugout. ESPN goes to a commercial break. They come back and show the helmet bashing in the dugout. The commentators just talk about pressure this pressure that yada yada..
ESPN is just like any news media in that their goal is to "catch as much emotion or realism as possible" the problem with this is the editor or producer has just put an image in a million viewers minds about how a person deals with pressure. No matter how good that kid is or what he does in community has been washed away in some viewers eyes. Folks, that is just wrong and yes the media can report whatever but it is wrong.
I have always thought to myself, how many people really go through the pressure that some of these kids do through the last few playoff games to State,CWS or World Series?
The last two games of the State Championship in my area 2005, I could of taken a couple of bites out of the plastic seats and digested it no problem with all that acid I built up and I wasn't even playing the game LoL
Interesting statement..
A few posts implying how dare they or don't they know the camera is on them makes me think that some think they (players) are choir boys. These guys are 18-22 y/os old playing for that dream they have had since they were 5 y/o. Can one get wrapped up in a situation?
You bet.
In my job, a recorder is listening to every word that is going on in a cardiac arrest call.
Besides some rookies, everyone knows they are being recorded, yet an occasional curse word or a oops may slip by. The point is... a world of extreme emotion can cause people to react poorly or with stand from cracking.
I personally didnt have a problem with it. A very poor call and the player reacted very professionally. He discussed the call calmly with the ump and walked back to the dugout. ESPN goes to a commercial break. They come back and show the helmet bashing in the dugout. The commentators just talk about pressure this pressure that yada yada..
ESPN is just like any news media in that their goal is to "catch as much emotion or realism as possible" the problem with this is the editor or producer has just put an image in a million viewers minds about how a person deals with pressure. No matter how good that kid is or what he does in community has been washed away in some viewers eyes. Folks, that is just wrong and yes the media can report whatever but it is wrong.
I have always thought to myself, how many people really go through the pressure that some of these kids do through the last few playoff games to State,CWS or World Series?
The last two games of the State Championship in my area 2005, I could of taken a couple of bites out of the plastic seats and digested it no problem with all that acid I built up and I wasn't even playing the game LoL