I’m sorry but this is very confusing post. Are you saying your son didn’t get a fair shake when trying out for his HS team because he didn’t play “daddy ball travel travel team put on by HS coaches” (which is a bit confusing description) but that’s ok because the coaches , even though your son was clearly more talented than many of the guys on the team, are playing it safe or because he did poorly hitting off the pitching machine?
“A player will have @ 4 at bats a game. Someone off the bench will have 1. You will know if a player has what it takes after 30 swings against a pitching machine that sends the ball right down the pipe.”
How do these two things even relate? 1) On every team in every game, there are often better batters sitting on the bench because of game situations. Defense, strategy , or the particular pitcher often dictate a line up.....not just batting ability. 2) I don’t think 30 swings against a batting machine can tell even the greatest evaluator the full story about the potential of a player.
He will take the challenge and improve himself (as a footballer and/or more next year for baseball) or he won’t.
Come on, this sounds like it came straight out of “Leave it to Beaver”. How is he going to improve his baseball game while at USC if he isn’t on the baseball team? This effectively kills his collegiate baseball career.
I’m not even going to address how positive PR for our baseball team is good thing and negative PR is a bad thing, apparently, it’s a difficult concept to grasp for many Gamecocks, kind of like how you can disagree with coaching decisions and still support the coach and program. That one really seems to blow a lot of minds.
There is a limited number of spots available, even for walk-ons in college baseball. If the kid couldn't help the team, then he's hurting the team if he gets one of those spots. It shouldn't matter who his dad is. And his dad should have kept it to himself. I seriously doubt anyone at USC promised the kid a walk-on spot on the baseball team to get him to sign for the football team. A lot of people not named Sanders want a lot of things they can't have. Such is life.