This is a great point… D-1 guys are on another level and the one area I notice

Oct 3, 2024
9:10:54am

Cougar86 All-American

the most is the mental side. The mental strength it takes to play elite level sports is hard for a scrub like me to understand. All I can say is they’re just different.

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Speaking with a friend about their kid and wanting to play baseball in college.

Sparkling Delirium

7:34am

In baseball specifically, D1 is generally not the best option. Better to go JUCO

Uno Doctoro

7:39am

100% correct here.

COUGND

7:58am

Agree. Kids at that age/younger are wasting so much time doing dumb

cougfanz

8:37am

Yes. Every athletic team at every college does summer camps.

COACHdrn

7:40am

To pay junior level coaches and GAs. It’s a racket most of the time.

SJS

8:50am

I’m not joking when I tell you that on my sons 13U travel team all the

Cougar86

8:09am

I have a friend who played on a national championship football team, D1.

Sparkling Delirium

9:03am

This is a great point… D-1 guys are on another level and the one area I notice

Cougar86

9:10am

I was one of the top 50 recruits in the country as a HS senior. When I showed up

Uno Doctoro

10:53am

At 13 everybody thinks their kid is D1

OrangeCougar

9:26am

A couple things I would recommend coming from a parent who has a D1 baseball kid

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