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re: Annual Official LA HS Baseball Season-long Thread
Posted on 5/10/24 at 12:11 pm to BlackJack02
Posted on 5/10/24 at 12:11 pm to BlackJack02
quote:I dont care if they do recruit, as long as the kids are legally playing, I dont care how or when they decided to attend the school they are going to. We are open enrollment, it took ASH more than a couple years of being the best FB program in our area to start seeing kids angling to go there versus other programs. You see in now. But they are sitting out a year as required by LHSAA. That is their choice. If we can have a break thru year in baseball, you will see the same thing there I would imagine, the problem is that Pineville, Tioga, and ASH are about on the same level historically in baseball. Add in Menard with a good program and you just see the talent get divided up quite a bit. Between TIoga, ASH, and Pineville you had a ton of soph starting for each program, and although they are talented you just wont compete with more mature players. Yes, there are Freshmen and soph that are ready, but you cant rely on that as the bedrock of a program and get over the hump.
and I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said. I don’t think any of the elite programs in any sport are actively recruiting. Maybe to a small extent, but not some crazy amount. It’s always the poverty programs saying “oh so these kids just show up?” Sarcastically. And the answer to that is yes, at some point they do just start showing up.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 12:13 pm to tigerfoot
Fair enough. I graduated Zachary in 02 so I’ve got to closely watch the revamp of the baseball, basketball and football program. The kids do show up. I kind of always chuckle thinking what it would be like to see Brewerton hitting the recruiting trail. Silly.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 12:16 pm to tigerfoot
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I dont care if they do recruit, as long as the kids are legally playing, I dont care how or when they decided to attend the school they are going to. We are open enrollment, it took ASH more than a couple years of being the best FB program in our area to start seeing kids angling to go there versus other programs. You see in now. But they are sitting out a year as required by LHSAA. That is their choice. If we can have a break thru year in baseball, you will see the same thing there I would imagine, the problem is that Pineville, Tioga, and ASH are about on the same level historically in baseball. Add in Menard with a good program and you just see the talent get divided up quite a bit. Between TIoga, ASH, and Pineville you had a ton of soph starting for each program, and although they are talented you just wont compete with more mature players. Yes, there are Freshmen and soph that are ready, but you cant rely on that as the bedrock of a program and get over the hump.
in your case, imo
your coach needs to find the really good travel programs in your area(cenla knights and barnes academy traditionally) and start hosting the coaches for clinics, hosting the kids for camps and get someone on staff to start giving the kids lessons. off the teams free entry to games, have them as bat boys, etc etc
if you are not historically great or have amazing facilities , that is the only way you are really going to get kids excited to want to attend that school. You have to get them to have some type of connection to the school. Have to show them they can come and be the backbone of the program and how you offer something more than the other schools in the area.
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