Quote Originally Posted by Ranchdawg View Post
One of my best friends in high school played at State under Polk. When Polk was still somewhat young. Friend told me that him and other players use to make fun of Polk because at practice Polk would make all the players run drills till to the point of being maddening. Some coaches friend said would hit 20 grounders to the short stop. Not Polk he would hit 60 for example.

Now friend is a high school coach and somewhat successful coach he does same. Now that he has matured he now sees the importance of doing the little things till it become routine and cuts way down on mistakes when actual play comes.
And we would still make mistakes under Polk.

I agree 110% that reps help and that's the best way to do it. In MLB they do even more reps than 60 in spring training. But it only helps to minimize mistakes- it doesn't eliminate them.