Any word on this college? Recently read where they were now considered D1 and their HC is one of the best in the summer Cape Cod League.
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They are D1, and Matt Fincher used to coach at the Cape. But I don't think he has been there for the last couple of summers. I think he gave it up when they went D1.
Fincher always struck me as a good guy. Ditto for the recruiting coordinator Triplett as well. He was the volunteer assistant at Clemson before going to Upstate. I expect him to add to the Jack Leggett coaching tree someday.
Upstate has a nice new (2-3 years old) baseball facility. The school itself has been growing by leaps and bounds. They've been taking their lumps so far in D1, but the program is young and headed in the right direction.
Fincher always struck me as a good guy. Ditto for the recruiting coordinator Triplett as well. He was the volunteer assistant at Clemson before going to Upstate. I expect him to add to the Jack Leggett coaching tree someday.
Upstate has a nice new (2-3 years old) baseball facility. The school itself has been growing by leaps and bounds. They've been taking their lumps so far in D1, but the program is young and headed in the right direction.
quote:Originally posted by Eric G:
Any word on this college? Recently read where they were now considered D1 and their HC is one of the best in the summer Cape Cod League.
I do believe there's an NCAA rule prohibiting D1 coaches from coaching in collegiate summer leagues.
quote:Originally posted by CPLZ:
I do believe there's an NCAA rule prohibiting D1 coaches from coaching in collegiate summer leagues.
Actually, there is not.
There is a restriction that they cannot coach players from their DI program.
The reason it is unusual is the amount of recruiting and travel that DI coaches do during the Summer can conflict heavily with coaching during the Summer.
With that said, our son was an assistant in the Cape last Summer and the Head Coach was a DI assistant head coach.
Thanks for setting me straight. I had thought they had placed that proviso due to the amount of poaching that teams were doing before there were transfer restrictions.
MTH is on the money. Fincher is a good guy and solid coach as well as a long-time well-known assistant in the Cape before he stopped doing that to focus on Upstate's move from the D2 Peach Belt to the D1 Atlantic Sun. The facility is very nice -- big, pitcher's park -- but the program is still going to have to catch up resource-wise with the move to D1. Many of Upstate's very good D2 athletic programs have struggled in the win-loss department as they have stepped up a level. The campus, which I believe got started in the late 1960s or early '70s, sits on a big plot of land just outside of Spartanburg proper.
