Texas Longhorns

I've heard their pretty good!

Seriously, one of the elite baseball programs in the nation. Coach Garrido is known for working his pitchers to excess in games at times but the program has produced many major league pitchers. They also are one of the major small ball playing teams in the nation usually up among the leaders in sac bunts and such.

They are also known for using the bulk of their scholarships on pitching.

Great pitchers park, lousy hitters park. Disch-Falk is huge, prevailing incoming wind, turf field. Lots of low scoring games.

They get just about any player they want in the state of Texas, therefore, their rosters over the years have very few players from out of state.

They appear to have an outstanding program.

Outstanding school (academically).

"Deep in the heart of Texas."

Probably a top-5/top-10 D1 program. You gotta 'have game' to contribute there.

Unless their calling you, don't bother, also if your not from Texas, make other plans.

All,

Thanks for the comments....More of a "Wish School" vs "baseball program" for my son. Just wanted some feedback on how one of his academics choices might match his baseball desire.

Thanks!

Texas has great academics, great town. The baseball program recruits early and often. My son is a 2012 and they have secured some of the best Texas talent for the 2012 class already. Coach Skip Johnson gets out to see HS talent often and mixes it up with the coaches and boys as much as any of his competitors. It is probably true, not many players out of state, but they don't have to with the talent within a 300 mile radius of Austin.

They do have a small but outstanding potential college all american from Illinois. He was headed to Arizona State before the coaching change there.

They really don't need much more than the Texas kids in order to be one of the very best programs.

Like I said, its a tough place to fit in and play if yer not from Texas, they had a kid from AZ as a freshman last year, played mostly late in games, 33 at bats, 11 hits, 10 runs, 2 doubles, 2 triples, had 2 walk off pinch hits including 1 against Baylor in extra innings and he got released. Kid who played in front of him from Austin started every game, hit .224 and led the team in strike outs at 73 in 200 at bats.
Go figure????

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Originally posted by 2013leftydad:
All,

Thanks for the comments....More of a "Wish School" vs "baseball program" for my son. Just wanted some feedback on how one of his academics choices might match his baseball desire.

Thanks!

2013leftydad - Great school academically, my spouse graduated from Texas so I have followed the schools academics closely for the past 20 years. If you live in Texas it is difficult to get into Texas if you are not in the top 10% of your class (recently they changed the rule to top 8%). Actually, I believe it is easier to get in from out of state than in state (if you are from Texas and not in the top 8% of your class).

When we did a campus visit (non-baseball) 2 years ago we were told they hold 5% of the admissions spots for out of state students, 5% for international students, and that year 86% of the admits were from the in-state top 10%. If you do the math (86+5+5=96%) that left only 4% of the spots for in-state students not in the top 10%. If you come from a college prep school with top academics where 25% of students have ACT scores north of 30 it is really hard to be in the top 10%. My son had a GPA of 3.9 and 30 ACT and he was not accepted to Texas. He had buddies with even higher GPA's and test scores that were also not accepted.

I would encourage you to visit Austin and the school, you and your son will fall in love with the school and the college atmosphere.

My son has a buddy that gave up baseball when he went to Texas - he still loved being around the game so he went to the baseball coaches and asked if there was a job he could volunteer for - they set him up as a volunteer videographer who was responsible for videoing the players swings during practices and meeting with them to review them - he had a blast, was still involved with the game he loved and attending his dream school.