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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]None of those baseball players were desperate either. The difference is the basketball and football programs put the players and their futures first while baseball puts the program and the coach’s reputation and ego first. Not to mention his pocketbook. But they do a great sales job to get the boys in there. [/quote]

I think the real reason the program is successful is that they recruit more than colleges for baseball.  They started recruiting my son when he was in the 5th or 6th grade.  They used to come out to local travel tourneys all the time.  They also run these recruiting camps in the winter every year.  Kind of a joke.  They would promise kids the world before attending.  For example they would always tell kids they could play multiple sports before they went there, but that changed as soon as you started going there.

Before deciding which school to go to, we sat down with several WCAC coaches.  All had their strengths and weaknesses, but Coach Gibbs was just odd.  Not a very good communicator and very focused on his program and talked about himself a lot.  Never asked much about our son.  Very strange individual.  The coaches from the other schools seemed to be a bit more grounded in reality and showed some level of interest in our son.[/quote]

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