by Dave Franco | Coaches Corner, College Recruiting/Scouting
This week in Coaches’ Corner we sit down with University of Connecticut head baseball coach Jim Penders. Coach Penders is going into his ninth season with the Huskies and has guided them to two consecutive NCAA regional births, including a Super Regional...
by Dave Franco | Pitching, Prospect Perspectives
Thanks to Stephen Fife for stopping by to hang out with Next Level Ballplayer. Stephen was, by his own admission, a late bloomer. He didn’t hit 90mph on the gun until he was 21 years old! After bursting on the scene his senior year at the University of Utah, he was...
by Dave Franco | Coaches Corner
This week in coach’s corner we receive baseball insight from The Ohio State University’s head coach, Greg Beals. Coach Beals previously had successfull coaching stints at Ball State and Kent State before taking over the Buckeye’s program last year. He was...
by Dave Franco | Coaches Corner, Pitching
This week in Coaches Corner we have Ken Knutson, pitching coach at Arizona State University. Prior to coach Knutson’s three seasons at ASU, he spent 17 years as the head coach at the University of Washington. While at Washington he coached 31 All-Americans, including...
by Dave Franco | College Recruiting/Scouting, Popular Posts, Recruiting Most Popular, W: Recruiting
Just about every serious high school baseball player wants to play Division I (D1) baseball. The reality is that most of them won’t. My former college coach, Tracy Smith (now head coach at Indiana University), likes to say, “Every serious high school baseball player...