Holy Cow! Did you see how many boys they signed early??? I'm assuming the scholly's were either very low, or they got rid of a bunch of seniors who were tying them all up. Guess they're making a run for it. The school has done a nice job announcing the recruits though.
_______________________ "People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." Rogers Hornsby, Hall of Famer
Actually I saw that and laughed. I told my husband, that seemed like a weird statement. Jim Murphy is a football type, and then they have like a 6'5" guy. Maybe other schools figure their "average" size but seems a bit odd. Who cares? Put the best guys in there, if they're big... ok. If they're not... ok.
_______________________ "People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." Rogers Hornsby, Hall of Famer
In that same vein, we were told last week by the Central Arizona asst. coach that they go out and search out football players that don't even play baseball, looking for "athletic" players. There aren't any athletic baseball players in Arizona? As this was right after he said they also pick up the ASU kids that get cut in the fall (out of the 21 kids ASU early signed last year) it looked like even if a kid made their fall team, the chances of playing in the spring were remote.
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If they only have 11.7 scholly's for the WHOLE team, what are they offering these kids? 21 players? Are some signing just for books, or meals or something like that in the hopes they'll be "the one"? Wow, I guess I'm really naive.
_______________________ "People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." Rogers Hornsby, Hall of Famer
It is interesting to note that the only Pac-10 school not listed as having had a top recruiting class by Collegiate Baseball was WSU. Maybe they were too big.
I don't know what ASU offers, but I do know that if you compare their early signings with the team roster they publish later, most of the early signees aren't on it. I heard of one excellent Washington player who early signed last year with ASU and is now back home here at community college. I believe the word we are searching for is "stockpiling."
Momco, I like the way you think.
Posts: 372 | Location: formerly WA, now AZ | Registered: December 26, 2002
quote:It is interesting to note that the only Pac-10 school not listed as having had a top recruiting class by Collegiate Baseball was WSU. Maybe they were too big.
OR...............maybe it's because OUR boys weren't in the class.
As for RS coming home from AZ, there were extenuating circumstances there. It wasn't due to over recruiting.
_______________________ "People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." Rogers Hornsby, Hall of Famer
Well, of course I have a FEW sour grapes, since my son is the best baseball player ever born, and he must not have been recruited by ASU simply because he is only 5'11" . . . You probably know far more about the local player's situation, as I have no direct connection with him whatsoever and am just going on the usual baseball rumor and innuendo. I do know that they sign a ton of kids every year and a number of them end up at jucos after or during the fall season.
A year from now I pray all of our kids will have found their niche in college baseball, and we will be able to look back on our parental paranoia and laugh at ourselves.
Posts: 372 | Location: formerly WA, now AZ | Registered: December 26, 2002
_______________________ "People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." Rogers Hornsby, Hall of Famer
Dry heat!! And Pac-10. Look at all the senior citizens who travel to Arizona every winter. Look at all the seniors going to spring training in Peoria!!
Agree that there may be many opportunities in the midwest or east, but our students don't necessarily get a lot of looks from those schools. We did get some form letters and we returned some questionnaires. The only serious interest fro mid-west schools was from coaches who had grown up in the northwest and knew that this area is under-rcruited, so they said.
And I found that my son was not that anxious to trade rain for snow.
Bee, The other attraction is easy and inexpensive access. Non-stop flights, and very reasonable airfare. It's frustrating to play in the spring when the weather is so unpredictable.
But I agree with 12sMom, Doesn't seem to be much interest from the other side, although, ironically enough, my son did have a D1 calling from SE.
_______________________ "People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." Rogers Hornsby, Hall of Famer
quote:my son was not that anxious to trade rain for snow
you'll find most of the "cold weather" schools beginning their seasons in the south vs schools with "clement" (is that a word?) weather.
you're right tho, I'd not expect them to come "find you" unless you had shown interest in them - letters, camps, etc
but I guess some have sooo many offers they can afford to let that thought process eliminate a bunch of good schools (about 1/3+ of all DI schools)- but from some comments above - it seems an opportunity in the Big East, Big 10, C-USA, or MAC would seem like something some would want to explore thoroughly
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You probably know far more about the local player's situation, as I have no direct connection with him whatsoever and am just going on the usual baseball rumor and innuendo. I do know that they sign a ton of kids every year and a number of them end up at jucos after or during the fall season.
