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Yes but any high school player good enough to be a high draft selection would be a fool to not go professional. (Although every now and then someone does choose to go the college route.)
It sux that after we won two college World Series we didn’t have stellar recruiting to keep it going and Ray should’ve stayed longer as the baseball coach as well!!and more to come if we don't make a change
South Carolina Baseball: Gamecocks suffer recruiting decommitment
South Carolina baseball commitment Peyton Rogers, an in-state player, has backed off of his pledge to the Gamecocks.
Holbrooke recruited players who played small ball....much different than the gorilla-ball player that Tanner liked. Holbrooke simply changed the DNA of the program.
We did actually upgrade in talent. We had a ton of guys drafted it seems like. Tanners CWS teams weren’t the most talented…they were just gritty baseball players who played the game right. Of course we had some solid players…you have to. But even a guy like Whit Merrifield wasn’t supposed to have the kind of success as a pro as he has. Dude just got it done at every level. It was always interesting to me that Coastal won the CWS soon after…leaving me wondering if some of those kind of players would’ve been at SC under Tanner.
