Instructors in Ohio

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SOMETIMES the big fish miss players . How many times have we seen players we view as being top 50 talent not get a top 50 look but succeed very well against the top 50. quite a bit IMO . For as much as a pessimist as I am by nature I think ohio fastpitch and its teams and instructors are doing ok . Yes we could do better at organizing all that top shelf talent and not sending it to Illinois but its a work in progress . And IMO hitting has improved DRASTICALLY the past 8 years .
Maybe the trouble ( concern ) is only at the very top because not many guys in Ohio have street cred with the PAC12 and SEC or even the Little Tin to make a call to one of the coachs and get a listening ear . But the whole Ohio has no top coaches at all theory is BS . The Beverly Bandits didnt teach big T how to pitch . Or teach J Lilly how to hit , or Erin G to throw or K Dill to field . But they sure can get a kid recruited -- quick . ( not knocking the Bev B , just stating a ton of talent they have had come thru learned the game in Ohio)

 

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BTW --yes I know Gabriel and Dill didnt play in Ill, my point is its not lack of instruction holding anyone back in Ohio .

 

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Let me throw in my two cents since I am a coach and the father of one of the kids mentioned in this thread. Instruction in Ohio can be great even as good as the "west coast" ! But lets not lose sight of some reality. First most of the highest level D1 kids are born with a God given talent that is just different from everyone else. Secondly they have mental attributes that are just different from most kids. Third they have an incredible work ethic and an innate ability focused productive work outs. And lastly they are driven by a desire that average players and their peers don't understand. Get instruction from some one you trust buy into it and work your tail off to maximize what God gave you AND BE SUCCESSFUL WITH IT.

 

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Let me throw in my two cents since I am a coach and the father of one of the kids mentioned in this thread. Instruction in Ohio can be great even as good as the "west coast" ! But lets not lose sight of some reality. First most of the highest level D1 kids are born with a God given talent that is just different from everyone else. Secondly they have mental attributes that are just different from most kids. Third they have an incredible work ethic and an innate ability focused productive work outs. And lastly they are driven by a desire that average players and their peers don't understand. Get instruction from some one you trust buy into it and work your tail off to maximize what God gave you AND BE SUCCESSFUL WITH IT.

Just might be the best advice/insight given on this site.

 

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Getting some sun today, nice weather for ball.

 

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Let me throw in my two cents since I am a coach and the father of one of the kids mentioned in this thread. Instruction in Ohio can be great even as good as the "west coast" ! But lets not lose sight of some reality. First most of the highest level D1 kids are born with a God given talent that is just different from everyone else. Secondly they have mental attributes that are just different from most kids. Third they have an incredible work ethic and an innate ability focused productive work outs. And lastly they are driven by a desire that average players and their peers don't understand. Get instruction from some one you trust buy into it and work your tail off to maximize what God gave you AND BE SUCCESSFUL WITH IT.

common knowledge

 

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Glad I don't know anything that's going on in here, ignorance is bliss

 

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So academics is the reason we don't get more girls on the big teams? Do the girls on the top teams not care about academics?

check their major. Also, know how many of them change their major once they get in. It's not we don't get more girls on the 'big team" rather some kids are ok with career of their choice while playing ball. We would all like to take lesson from you, yet we still don't know who you are.

My May not accomplish anything on softball field but when she puts braces on your kid I will be the one smiling. So stop solitude your nonsense about Ohio not putting kids in "big school" because that is not everyone's goal. But if it is their goal I would like the kids to know who you are for an option.

 

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Smh

 

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lol

 

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omg

 

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I am sure glad the snow is gone I hope welcome to OHIO.

 

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still no SNOW.

 

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Now...I have to cut my grass.

 

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It has to be better than shoveling the sidewalk.

 

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For the love of god, please let this thread die. I tried to bump it to the second page, with hopes that it would be out of sight, out of mind.

 

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For the love of god, please let this thread die. I tried to bump it to the second page, with hopes that it would be out of sight, out of mind.

Then you replied to the thread thus knocking out all of the work you did

 

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I am not pointing fingers^, but it was the weathermen that put it back on page 1.^

 

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I feel like I'm watching Alex Trebek (at times) give all kinds of answers with no questions being asked. Just kidding... but you get my point. I have no dog in this other than I spent 1000 minutes reading all of this. That's what I get for finally having a life away from OFC... .

I will say I've learned a thing or two. All the names being thrown around here is a bit fun to watch too. I do know some of them and that makes me feel cool :cap:. I at least stalk their names .

So, let's get a of facts out there in some functional manner and then we can eliminate IQ debates on softball and put this big'n to pasture. In other words, I need some cliff notes or long bullet list to put in my coach's bucket next to how the flex/dp and re-entering procedures work out. Oh yeah, that and how to stop coaches in High School from allowing pitchers to literally throw 200 pitches a game and then go at it again tomorrow. Mini hi-jack but worth it in this tornadic (new word?) thread.

I like a side-by-side matrix because that's how I think. Will some will please help a brother out?

And for the record... my name is Les Rogers, Avatar "Lester" is in tribute to my dad who is known in his blue collar career as "Lester". My step-DD is D1 verballed FWIW. That's my bio and bragging in one.

I do know what an IP address is...it means Impossible Process... which at times is why the OFC page is successful. And helps pass lots of time and surely creates that pesky "quality time" discussion from your significant other.

 

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Lester,
If you were bragging, you would have named the college and spewed forth all kinds of inflated HS stats.