These questions are in regards to a player's abilities in adapting to a certain type of College Coaching System.
Our DDs can have hopes and aspirations of playing at their dream College, wherever that may be.
For the sake of this thread let's say your DD has everything their Dream College is looking for. Great Hitting and defensive skills, or the right stuff on the pitcher's mound. As well as great grades and testing scores.
So it boils down to this...
I'm seeing and hearing more and more of this...compatabilty issues with the prospective or incoming player to an University.
Here's what I mean, if your DD is recruited mainly as a hitter and has a certain hitting style, why are there college coaches that try to recruit her, that have a different style of hitting system?
The same goes for pitchers (I'm pretty naive on the various pitching styles here, so bear with me) Why would a college coach recruit your DD if she has a different style of pitching thatn they currently coach/teach?
The most obvious place to see this is at College Camps. Your DD shows up, and is ran through various skills stations. Whether they are measuring 20 yard times or throwing speeds and exit speeds.
For the non-pitching prospect, one of the most notable places you see College Coaches working with the players is in the batting stations...and how the Coaches are trying to get the girls to hit like they want them to hit, over the course of an afternoon.
Does the same happen with pitching prospects? Your DD shows up at the College Camp and is taught a completely different way of pitching, even though their mechanics might be stellar to begin with.
Why do College Coaches even entertain the idea of recruiting a girl who doesn't have the same hitting system that they currently use? Rotational vs. Linear
Why do College Coaches try to recruit pitchers that do not have the same style of pitching their program uses?
I'll finish with this, so these aren't viewed as loaded questions.
There are many Colleges in the Upper Midwest, MN, ND, SD, IA that teach an Arrow Straight Linear hands hitting system.
Or the Swunt as my youngest DD calls it (Swing/Bunt)
I have nothing against it. But for my DDs, who have a rotational swings, to even go to those camps after being invited has literally gotten pointless.
They have rotational swings, that some of the interested coaches seem to like, while other coaches try to change their swing immediately at the camp.
Why would they even want my DD to come to their camp? When the difference in some of these skill sets are miles apart?
Does this same thing happen to your DDs who are pitchers?
They have dreams of pitching for Awesome U, they have the grades and the skills to play there and be recruited, but the differences in pitching skills are miles apart...
Across the board from D-1 to D-3, has it gotten to the point where our DDs need to scout out a prospective College Coaches hitting/pitching systems before they go to the camp?
Or is that a Captain Obvious question? ..."Of Course you have to scout out the College Coaching systems that school the school has."
Don't get me wrong here, my DD2 isn't a phenom by any means...but it literally has gotten to the point where she is asking me, "even if I'm good enough, will I fit in there?", before she even sends a letter to the coach, or tries to get into a camp.
Our DDs can have hopes and aspirations of playing at their dream College, wherever that may be.
For the sake of this thread let's say your DD has everything their Dream College is looking for. Great Hitting and defensive skills, or the right stuff on the pitcher's mound. As well as great grades and testing scores.
So it boils down to this...
I'm seeing and hearing more and more of this...compatabilty issues with the prospective or incoming player to an University.
Here's what I mean, if your DD is recruited mainly as a hitter and has a certain hitting style, why are there college coaches that try to recruit her, that have a different style of hitting system?
The same goes for pitchers (I'm pretty naive on the various pitching styles here, so bear with me) Why would a college coach recruit your DD if she has a different style of pitching thatn they currently coach/teach?
The most obvious place to see this is at College Camps. Your DD shows up, and is ran through various skills stations. Whether they are measuring 20 yard times or throwing speeds and exit speeds.
For the non-pitching prospect, one of the most notable places you see College Coaches working with the players is in the batting stations...and how the Coaches are trying to get the girls to hit like they want them to hit, over the course of an afternoon.
Does the same happen with pitching prospects? Your DD shows up at the College Camp and is taught a completely different way of pitching, even though their mechanics might be stellar to begin with.
Why do College Coaches even entertain the idea of recruiting a girl who doesn't have the same hitting system that they currently use? Rotational vs. Linear
Why do College Coaches try to recruit pitchers that do not have the same style of pitching their program uses?
I'll finish with this, so these aren't viewed as loaded questions.
There are many Colleges in the Upper Midwest, MN, ND, SD, IA that teach an Arrow Straight Linear hands hitting system.
Or the Swunt as my youngest DD calls it (Swing/Bunt)
I have nothing against it. But for my DDs, who have a rotational swings, to even go to those camps after being invited has literally gotten pointless.
They have rotational swings, that some of the interested coaches seem to like, while other coaches try to change their swing immediately at the camp.
Why would they even want my DD to come to their camp? When the difference in some of these skill sets are miles apart?
Does this same thing happen to your DDs who are pitchers?
They have dreams of pitching for Awesome U, they have the grades and the skills to play there and be recruited, but the differences in pitching skills are miles apart...
Across the board from D-1 to D-3, has it gotten to the point where our DDs need to scout out a prospective College Coaches hitting/pitching systems before they go to the camp?
Or is that a Captain Obvious question? ..."Of Course you have to scout out the College Coaching systems that school the school has."
Don't get me wrong here, my DD2 isn't a phenom by any means...but it literally has gotten to the point where she is asking me, "even if I'm good enough, will I fit in there?", before she even sends a letter to the coach, or tries to get into a camp.
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