re: Annual Official LA HS Baseball Season-long Thread

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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.

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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.