lol true but with a lot of the jucos and other small schools generally it's becaue of limited space available for the park and they do the best they can
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Reminds me of a guy that played for us from Tupelo named Reed Hawkins I think. He played at MSU under McMahon for a year and didn't do much and then goes to Itawamba CC and hits like 23 home runs or something ridiculous. Gets offered out of JUCO by MSU, Ole Miss, and LSU and ends up at Ole Miss and then he completely fell off the face of the Earth. I don't even think he made Ole Miss's team out of the fall.
There's so many that looks like babe ruth in juco and then flame out. Remember Gunnar Halter? Led the nation in hrs in juco, came here and couldn't hit his weight. Juco in the past has been rampant with phd use as well and then the guys get to d1 and have to get clean and it hurts their power.
lol- no kidding.
I was actually supposed to go to East Central. Coach Clark (RIP) had called me and offered. Until then- Holmes didnt have a real program. They let football guys and whomever play. My damn Freshman year they decide to actually have a program. Hired a tri-athlete as coach and we built that baseball field. Coaching was awful. Really sucked not getting to go to EC and play for Coach Clark. He had been friends with my Dad and coached against him. I homered against them at EC and he grabbed me after the game and said- "damnnn son I tried" and we both laughed.
Sometimes a Diamond is found in a small ballpark. Like a guy who played at Copiah Academy a few years back hitting homers over a 310 left field fence because there were trees directly behind it that apparently couldn't be cut down to curve the fence. That guy played 3 years at State and hit some prodigious homers. Turned out to be what they refer to as a 5 tool player. Still a journeyman outfielder in the majors last I heard.