Scenario: District MVP decides to go to great Tx Juco. Outcome: no playing time this year.
Does this happen every year? If a school recruits 6 pitchers and only two or three play what do you do?
Sometimes in choosing juco's you still have to be careful. The main focus of goin is to get playin time and get noticed. What happens when you don't and you waste a year when you could have went to a weaker juco and started (possibly). What do you do next year? What if you stay and it happens again. Remember you only have two years to make an impression. When choosing a four year school, guess you have to tryout again and try to make the cut.
I guess many players aren't as good as they thought or just too much competition.
How do you weigh whats more important? Selecting a juco over D2 and D3 only to sit the year on the bench. Not to mention going to a juco with 40 players on the roster. Everyone wants to play and even with talent, baseball could be somewhat at a stand still.
I know I'm not mentioning education. That is for another conversation. I'm just saying not all kids are school first, baseball second.
When it comes down to selecting colleges, your future in baseball is never guaranteed no matter your talent or how hard you try. Its a matter of choosing the best scenario for yourself and your future. It worries me because this time next year, I will be involved in making a decision in where my son will be playing. For someone who loves it and all he knows, the thought of not playing never crosses his mind. Such is being on a college roster.
I'm just ranting today because I have researched good kids, great high school players on current rosters and look at their playing time and stats and I feel for them. What to do? Where to go from there.
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