Just Curious

I used to read the Charlotte.com message board to kinda keep up with teams in the Charlotte area. This new board, though a much improved format I must admit, seems to be pretty much the same discussions. Are you all wanting to get discussions going on a state wide basis or keep it to the Charlotte area.

 

I may be out of line here , but i dont think it matters where the talk is from or about, Just so long as people enjoy the conversations .
IMO

 

Definately as wide-spread as we can.... Gonzo has posted invites to all the NC folks up on the state-specific thread of High School Baseball Web...... Anyone I chat with, I invite onboard.... It's just that the people that headed up getting it started (Braves, Prepster, Gonzo, Applejack) are most familiar with the SW4A....I'm in the Meca8, playme is in the NW4A....We have people from NPC jumping in...a lot of gastonia people signing on, even some folks from the Asheville area.

It's spreading, but it may just be primarily west part of the state this first season...it takes time to grow a board.... If we can get any easterner's to join us, that would be great. Most of us don't get too much chance to see them play down-east and they play some great ball (Fuquay-Varina, Garner, Green Hope, Hoggard...et al).

We have a lot of 4A talk right now, but it needs to spread down to the 3A, 2A..even 1A (but there's not too many 1A schools in the immediate vicinity...most are up in the mountains).

It's hard to talk about players out of conference because you may only see them in the summer or every other year or so if you're lucky. Most "best players" list you will see here are conference specific, but there are a few exceptions.

We have some scouts that fan out and see a lot of players.....It may be that we (hopefully) can get some responses out of them.

:xyzwave:

 

thanks

I coach our local high school kids in the summer and fall and we do some traveling. We get to play against the Charlotte kids from time to time. That is why I enjoy reading this board. I am familier with some of the kids. We have for the pst 3 yrs kept our HS team together and played summer and fall ball and it has really paid off. It's hard to beat the all star teams that are put together but we can generally compete and it makes the kids better. Gave the Hurricanes a good game in Greensboro last summer. Think we lost 6-4. I enjoy the info. We are in the mountains.

 

Keep us posted about "your kids"..... might have played some of them in the past.......

 

We play

as the Mudcats in the summer, but our kids are the West Henderson HS team. Went 25-2 last yr and lost 2 starters to graduation. One is now at Gardner Webb and the other at Brevard College. Did pick up a couple of transfers though. One from Crest and one from Northwest Guilford. Faced Pope from South Meck in Greensboro but only had 5 of the varsity starters there that weekend.

 

I am a NPC fan , but not many of us are on yet. Ive been here for almost a year now .

Our conference overall is pretty young , Northwest may have more seniors than the rest, and should be a contender with West Rowan for the title, but who knows what will happen.

 

Intimidator

The strongest team out of our area this year in the 3A classification will be Tuscola. We are 2A. We played a team called the "Intimidators" from Kannapolis in Morganton Labor Day weekend a couple of years ago. Our kids were all rising sophmores and juniors then. It was a good game for the championship that weekend. Was that your team and how many of those kids are still playing?

 

Mudcat......At what level do your "boys" play during the summer and fall? AAU, AABC, USSSA, etc?

 

Last summer

we played some USSSA and open tournaments. Mainly in TN and SC. We have played AAU but got I got tired of all the paperwork and crap you have to deal with in AAU. Understand they even want to tell you what motel you have to stay in now. Probably 75% of our weekend tournament games are in open tournaments played on college campuses in SC and eastern TN. We seem to get more attention from college coaches for the kids there. Have 3 kids signed for next yr now and 4 more that will this spring. Would love to come to the Charlotte area for summer tournaments. Maybe you could direct us to some. But please no AAU, lol.