re: Glenn Cecchini (Barbe baseball)

So his minor league bio says.

Not really, historically Bullet baseball has kids from Jennings west along I10. Actually Bullet baseball is now a softball program that only fields 1 baseball team and I think they are 12 yrs old but they have never been a feeder program for Barbe.

They’ve always had Barbe kids but many years had many Sulphur kids also just as an example. My point is that most people have no idea of the time and effort the Barbe coaching staff put in not only developing players but also time spent preparing for games or opponents. I have known Glenn for quite a while in addition to having one of my boys play against his teams while at Sulphur and you will not outwork him, I’ve got a lot of respect for him along with his program. I have a son on his coaching staff and I have personally seen the hours and effort the coaches put in not only during the season but throughout the year. And I also agree he has had plenty of talented players come through over the years but so have Sulphur and West Monroe and his program’s success speaks for itself. I also believe SW La has a lot of great coaches throughout the area that do a great job of developing talent before the young players get to high school.

On a different note the WM/Zachary series should be a great one this coming weekend.

Does his wife still coach too? She may have been the worst

Didn’t cecchini ruin nick bourgeois and Chris denton’s arms?

Yeah he was notorious for throwing kids till their arms feel off.

And then they’d go play a position the rest of the time

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They got a kid from Venezuela to move to LC and drop bombs my senior year.

Sure they did.

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Homy Rosado?

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Which travel ball program feeds into their program?

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Bullets
BlueClaws


2 of those for sure.

At least they used to be. Maybe they’re just feeders into SLC Little League which feeds into Barbe. They don’t contend for Williamsport because they’re all just Rec kids. Come on guys. Give me a break. I see there’s two defenders that know the guy personally. But your bias slants your view. Josh Prince was a Sulphur legacy. His entire family were blue and gold for years. Until it was Josh’s turn and he was “living with his aunt” in LC. Know need to try to throw the scent off here, defender guys, everyone in the area that knows about HS athletics around here knows what he does.

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How much of his success is development at the HS level, vs. having a feeder travel ball program that feeds into the program?

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Isn't the South Lake Charles Little League often competing for regional and world series berths? I feel like they were in the LLWS recently.

Southwest LA is full of plant baws with some money and not a lot of high schools. I'd imagine there's a lot of money paid for travel ball down there.

But baseball isn't the team sport like others are. It's not like football, where the youth league coaches start teaching the offense/defense that the local HS uses, so by the time the kids get to HS, they know it. Baseball is still a rather individualized sport. So if the coach is plugged in to the local leagues, he knows which kids to "encourage them to move into his district".

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LC is a very hot job market and if parents move in and have a good baseball player, why wouldn’t they live in Barbes district?

LeBlanc
Cooley
Topham
Nagle (both)
Johnny Thibodeaux
Trey Quinn

All those guys grew up in LC

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Congrats on the State titles, but I would take Catholic BR's pipeline to LSU baseball any day of the week.

does barbe baseball have the same hold back ratio as what WM football did?