Maryland Terrapins baseball

And then we kind of rinse and repeat the following week.

And then we play Navy and then we play Maryland.

And then so over the next five weeks, we're playing meaningful baseball in the fall.

It's really important for players to come in and show what they can do.

Division I, they're unable to.

But like in our summer camp, you know, we'll have, you know, we had William & Mary.

We had, you know, Maryland came to our prospect camp this summer.

We had, you know, UMBC, Towson.

If you live anywhere near a Division I school, and there's 307 of them, they will play four full-on scrimmages that are basically just games that you have a chance to go and attend, right? I'm in Northern Virginia.

I could go watch Mason, Georgetown, GW, Maryland.

I could go down to UVA, William & Mary, like, If you're in the Northern Virginia area and you're serious about college baseball and you don't go to a fall scrimmage, I think you're not allocating your time properly.

Take the drive to go see a place.

And I think that that's one of the quickest ways to close the education gap is you think you're good enough to play at said school, go watch that, go watch that school play.

And I would argue that seeing the scrimmage setting is even cooler than it is the real game setting, because you're probably going to see a broader spectrum of players and and the atmosphere is going to be a little more loose in terms of you're probably going to be able to get closer to the field, all that kind of good stuff.

But go there and honestly look at yourself and go, can I play there right now? I'm a 20-28, and I think I'm good enough to play – at the University of Maryland, go and watch those guys and legitimately look yourself in the mirror and go, am I good enough to play for them? Do I look like those guys who are running around that field? Or do I got to do some stuff in order to be good enough to that? And sometimes that's hard, but I think it's really important for if you have access to it, go.

Go check out some of these privileges and certainly plan ahead for the spring to make a point to go and watch some of these college baseball games.

I'm going to get Bud Coombs, who's playing at Vanderbilt.

He played at Maryland last season.

Go look at this guy's numbers.

He only played 30 games, but he hit nine home runs, drove in 36. in those 30 games.

He's an off-the-charts athlete, could be a center fielder for Vanderbilt, maybe one of the most dynamic players in the SEC.

And if he's able to extrapolate out what he did over 30 games last year at Maryland, and I get that he's jumping up in competition and all that, but if he can extrapolate that out over a full season, I think he's in for a really, really big year.

So it may be a little bit of a reach, but I wanted to make sure I got him because I'm just really excited about him as a prospect here for Vanderbilt this season.

Yeah, I like it.