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Athletic Scholarships Don't Grow on Trees!! [Words of Wisdom from a Hall of Fame Baseball Coach]

21 Mar 2020 · 1 min

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A Hall of Fame baseball coach explains why D1 scholarships are rare and travel team costs don't guarantee recruitment. Baseball scholarships are often fractional, split among many players. One coach shares why talented kids don't get playing time.

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One of the things that I remember back when I was coaching high school is towards the end of my career, some of it had started already is parents thinking that these Division 1 scholarships are all over the place and they're easy to get. And the reality is that's not true. Even a sport like baseball, Division one sport, at most colleges, universities, if they're Division one, they're only allotted so many scholarships. So even, even if a player gets a Division 1 baseball scholarship, it's usually a fraction of a scholarship. It's not a full scholarship.
Well, and it's, it's also to that point of.
The expectation. Right. Like you said earlier with parents who pay 3, 4, 5,000 dollars these days to get a kid on a travel team doesn't mean you're going to get a third Division 1 scholarship. In fact, I'm going to go back to the famous quote, somebody we both know, my pitching coach from college, Todd Frogworth, said when he was the head coach of a high school program for a short time, when a parent attacked him or came after him saying that he, the coach, was the reason their son wasn't getting the scholarship, Todd politely said, I don't play your kid because I don't like him, not because I don't like him. I don't play him because he's sucks. And it's that expectation of just because you're paying for your kid to be on a travel team has no mean that they're going to get a scholarship and go to a big Division 1 school.