Monday, May 10, 2010

A Lesson Learned

This is something you HS players need to put in your memory ---a number of years back we had a player with us who was recruited by and received a baseball scholarship to a major Division I program-- as it turned out things did not work out--the recruiiting coach left for another program and things changed--after two years the young man left for a Division II program--had a solid two years--Honors--a trip to the NCAA Championships (Division II)---he got drafted and is now at the Double A level in the Toronto Blue Jays system-- was in major league camp this spring and is currently hitting .316 as their lead off hitter in Nashua.

The point here is that even though you think your college choice is solid, things change and you had better be ready to adapt--it is not the end of the world--the other aspect in this picture was the young mans grades--it eased the transition--HINT HINT

All I can say to you is that as much as you do your due diligence in the recruiting process things can go awry---do not go in thinking that it is all "roses"---there can be problems in any year

PS--sorry for the delay in posts but we are in the process of putting our team and schedule together for the summer/fall--now that we are in true baseball mode look for more timely posts

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