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Are we recruiting players that are too good?
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Are we recruiting players that are too good?


Jun 16, 2015, 2:40 PM

I don't have the statistics like some of you on Tigernet, but I was just curious if part of our problem in baseball is that we're recruiting players that are too good. I know, it doesn't make sense, but bear with me for a minute.

Each year, we also see more and more freshmen and sophomores (and even high school kids) going straight to the pros. It would only make sense that if you are recruiting the top of the class, many of these players will be looking for an early move to the Majors. That makes it almost impossible to recruit a winning team. Some recruits never make it to campus, some leave in their first or second year.

Think about it. How successful would Dabo have been if CJ never made it to campus? If Tahj left his junior year? If Nuke and Sammy went straight to the pros? If Beasley decided to leave early. The list goes on and on. You recruit players to build your program. The pros keep taking too many young athletes, put them in the A,AA, and AAA clubs where they probably don't get much better than if they had stayed in college.

I'm not a proponent of going pro early, no matter what the sport. I know a lot of other people think a player should be able to go whenever they decide to. Each to his own, but I think the early outs to the pros, by players and others that have been heavily recruited, kill the college game and makes it difficult for some teams to be as successful as in the past.

Maybe we should recruit midlevel players and develop them, players that would appreciate playing for Clemson and spend their 4 years at school. The smaller schools have no choice but to do this, yet manage to take a fair percentage of the slots when tournament time rolls around.

Just curious of other opinions on this, or if anyone else has thought about this as an issue.

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Jun 16, 2015, 2:43 PM

Signing a known first rounder creates a unique situation for player and school. The player uses it as a bargaining chip with the pros in case they don't meet his demands. The school uses it to raise their class ranking and make themselves look FAR better than the same class will without those 1st and 2nd round kids. New class rankings are developed after the kids report but those ARE never released to the public/fans.

A Top 10 class can easily drop into the 40's and 50's losing 2-3 guys

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Re: Are we recruiting players that are too good?


Jun 16, 2015, 3:17 PM

You really need to learn the draft eligibility rules. You never see a freshman or sophomore get drafted because they are not eligible until after their junior year.

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