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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’re in the thick of the academic D3 recruiting process for baseball. We’ve made it clear to DS that academics come first, and he has been on board with that. He’s not really a D1 prospect, so ivies and patriot league schools are on the back burner for consideration only if the baseball thing does not work out. [/quote]

Aha, lucky you! How does your dc feel about it?

That seems to be the typical path I see on here. Athletics to academic d3. Unfortunately or fortunately (bc dc has found his passion, which I can’t dismiss), my dc isn’t particularly interesting in the d3 schools that like him because their teams are just ok. His semi ‘dream’ schools are two state schools where he could likely get in academically but his recruiting chances aren’t great (keeping him on the back burner for now). He would likely have to try to walk on.

Dc will not do this sport professionally but he wants to push himself to the limits in the time he has left, and I have to respect that. [/quote]

Does he want to work professionally in the sport in the front office?

It’s better to play baseball at Amherst if you want to be a gm in mlb vs maybe having a shot at playing for a northern d1 team.

Having a great non-player job in pro sports is filled with elite academic d3 marginal players vs state school d1 players [/quote]

Interesting. How do you know that?

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Because I used to work for an Al East and NL Central team and my sibling works as an agm in pro sports and went to a t10 academic d3

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-11/red-sox-fuel-moneyball-dream-as-amherst-grooms-front-office

If your goal is to maximize your chances to be a GM in baseball, playing at Amherst/williams/top nescac (if you can’t play for Stanford, vandy, Harvard, Yale) is better than maybe scraping into player d1 at a northern big 10 school

It’ll straight up open more doors

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Ivy grads dominate GM ranks.  Also, 11 out of 32 have zero baseball-playing experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_general_managers[/quote]

I’m considering the hundreds of gm's/agm's/vp's etc i've met - op wasnt comparing academic d3 (im assuming nescac) vs ivy

she was comparing academic d3 vs d1 thats not an elite program (in baseball, thats big state schools in the north)  [/quote]

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