Good start. An early blowout would be a great way to save some arms though
2017-2018 OOTB other UNC sports thread
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Great hustle getting down the line there. Gotta go ground ball backside there to at least move the runner up but he gets rewarded with a single.
Man, watching Carolina baseball is still bittersweet for me /:
Man, watching Carolina baseball is still bittersweet for me /:
Pissed away my shot at possibly getting to play there. Did everything right up until around my senior year, a little while after my dad passed away. Had an upper 80's to low 90's fastball, topped out at 93. But I thew four pitches for strikes (FB, CB, Change, and Slider). I actually went on a recruiting trip to Carolina, when coach Holbrook was still there, he had me up for the Carolina vs. Duke football game. That was the year Greg Little had the game winning TD run, which was right in front of us. I was recruited by Clemson and S. Carolina, and a few other southern ACC/SEC schools too.
Long story short, I hung out with the wrong crowd, and got myself in more trouble than most college coaches would probably want to deal with, unless you're a 100 mph type guy. I also didn't make good enough grades to get myself into UNC as an out of state student, so I didn't give myself the opportunity to walk on and prove how committed I was. I ended up "grey shirting" at Wofford but just wasn't committed to putting in that level of work and not even traveling or dressing out for away games. I should have just gone to a tech school in NC, established in state residency, and made a 4.0 while working my ass off in the gym. But I was younger and dumber than I am now. I didn't know the age eligibility rules for the NCAA and by the time I really got my shit together and decided it might still be a possibility, I wasn't eligible.
Easily the biggest regret of my life.
Damn bro. I seriously feel you. I have a similar story (although not on that level of play). My long story short is I was recruited by A&T and decided if that was the school most interested in me then the hell with it. I would have never amounted to much but (in hindsight) it still would have been something sweet to play in college, which I never accomplished.
Its rough. I know how much fun it would have been to play four years of college ball.
To be fair I also had some horrible luck. Our athletic director / football coach was almost as garbage of a person as he was a coach, and cost a lot of guys on our football team any shot of getting looked at by running the program into the ground. He got fired the year after I graduated. Then the coach from Independence came in and won a state title in his 2nd or 3rd year. We also had a coaching change in baseball going into my junior year, and went from having two coaches who loved me and knew me from camps since I was like 10 years old, to a new head coach that I now realize wasn't very fond of me. I wouldn't be surprised to find out he had bad mouthed me to coaches late in the recruiting process. He was/is a major douche.
The shitty part is that was an 18 year plan that I fukked up. My dad had coached me since before I was even old enough to play tee ball, and I had worked my ass off. Hours in the cage at a private facility after practice, weekend tournaments almost year round, you name it. I wish I had been serious in the weight room though because I definitely could have thrown harder than I did. It just sucks because there's nothing I can do about it at this point. I think that's part of what fuels me to do some of the ridiculous shit I've done in running.
If you guys want to join us over at The Dugout here's our live game thread for tonight. We have them every single game. https://northcarolina.forums.rivals...ead-winners-bracket.62785/page-3#post-1054625
Now just wrap it up tomorrow in one game so we can save some pitching for the super
Hope Houston/Purdue play a 14-13 5 hour ballgame that uses a lot of pitching... Go Boilermakers
dammitol man . . you messed it up, and now we're down 1.
