There was a feature story on a 12 year-old kid from Franklin playing for Team USA in the World Championships and he's the team's best pitcher and best hitter. He won MVP Pitcher of the World Championship Tournament and he was awarded a gold plate in honor of his five home runs...the most ever hit by a single player in the world championship tourney.

The local Bryan KBTX reporter asked him about his dream school he'd like to attend....Texas A&M down the road? Texas in Austin? No. He said his dream school was TCU. I know we've talked about TCU and how they have a big recruiting advantage with this whole private school scholarship deal...but a 12 year-old kid's dream school isn't based on scholarship percentages.

Anyway, I don't know what Schlossnagle is doing over there in Fort Worth to attract 11 and 12 year-olds, but he's on a roll.

drthoop said:

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Would hope he comes around but we also need to think about the fact that just because he is good as a 12 year old doesn't translate to D1 ball. Let's let him grow up a little and see how he does at the HS level.

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My point was that a lot of baseball kids in the area/state are growing up TCU fans as opposed to A&M or Texas fans which was the case for most of the past 30-40 years.

ABATTBQ87 said:

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Hop said:

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drthoop said:

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Would hope he comes around but we also need to think about the fact that just because he is good as a 12 year old doesn't translate to D1 ball. Let's let him grow up a little and see how he does at the HS level.

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My point was that a lot of baseball kids in the area/state are growing up TCU fans as opposed to A&M or Texas fans which was the case for most of the past 30-40 years.

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I fall in the generation from 40 years ago and most of us who cheered for and wanted to go to A&M had family members or friends who attended A&M.

regarding college baseball interest there was ZERO coverage of that sport in the 70's; I could occasionally watch an A&M football or basketball game on TV, and could almost always pick up games on the radio. I never went to an A&M baseball game until my senior year in HS when the Aggies played TCU in Fort Worth.

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Until the late 80's/early 90's, A&M and Twzas were the only schools in the state that had a baseball stadium facility. Everybody else had bleachers and the park looked like a glorified high school facility. The SWC Conference Tourney rotated every other year between Austin and College Station.

There were no other baseball programs in Texas that were on the national radar.

ABATTBQ87 said:

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Also there was no travel ball or baseball camps at colleges in the 70s

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So...because college baseball wasn't as popular in the 70's and there wasn't club baseball then, that pushed kids to liking the two flagship schools in the state? I'm not sure how you are connecting the dots to the discussion at hand.