Went to college for academics or athletics?

I think that, for serious baseball players, the best advice is to do both! In numerous threads on this website, folks have talked about finding the right "fit." It is so true. This applies to the baseball as well as the academics.

That being said, though, it has been our experience that one can find decent academics in lots of places, even in JUCO's. College is what you make of it. Athletes especially have to make wise class selection choices wherever they are. If the academic advising at their school isn't the greatest, then they must take it upon themselves to monitor requirements and their progress toward fulfilling them.

Many young people don't make their ultimate career decisions until they have a little more life experience under their belt. Grad school can finally put them down that path. But getting that undergrad degree, wherever it is from, makes life a whole lot easier!