Is this the beginning of a drastic change in the landscape of girls/women's softball?
Article on FloSoftball:
http://www.flosoftball.com/article/4151 ... bUE9In0%3D
Spazsdad wrote:Doubt it. More like a pr stunt to launch the new team. She is being paid the max 20k/ season and all the rest is based on various bonuses.
tbjd33 wrote:You guys dislike early verbals or dare is say any verbal. Now doubting this...
Meanwhile vast majority of verbals work and don't turn out negative and growth of softball is growing. It's exciting in person and entertaining on TV. Currently, it carries a higher TV rating than baseball, women's basketball and every other NCAA sport not Football or Basketball.
Send a positive message and maybe just maybe this is the start of something for DD's. It is a start and if anything else potential opportunity!
Just sayin...
fastpitchdad05 wrote:tbjd33 wrote:You guys dislike early verbals or dare is say any verbal. Now doubting this...
Meanwhile vast majority of verbals work and don't turn out negative and growth of softball is growing. It's exciting in person and entertaining on TV. Currently, it carries a higher TV rating than baseball, women's basketball and every other NCAA sport not Football or Basketball.
Send a positive message and maybe just maybe this is the start of something for DD's. It is a start and if anything else potential opportunity!
Just sayin...
Not sure how you think one relates to the other. There are young men coming out and saying now that the early recruiting in football (which is nowhere near as early as softball) is a crime.
Sorry 33. This doesn't fit your misguided agenda. If your DD (or anyone's for that matter) is good enough to play professionally their talent will prove out whether they verbal at 11 or 18. And the earlier the verbal the better the chance is they'll burn out IMO.
tbjd33 wrote:fastpitchdad05 wrote:tbjd33 wrote:You guys dislike early verbals or dare is say any verbal. Now doubting this...
Meanwhile vast majority of verbals work and don't turn out negative and growth of softball is growing. It's exciting in person and entertaining on TV. Currently, it carries a higher TV rating than baseball, women's basketball and every other NCAA sport not Football or Basketball.
Send a positive message and maybe just maybe this is the start of something for DD's. It is a start and if anything else potential opportunity!
Just sayin...
Not sure how you think one relates to the other. There are young men coming out and saying now that the early recruiting in football (which is nowhere near as early as softball) is a crime.
Sorry 33. This doesn't fit your misguided agenda. If your DD (or anyone's for that matter) is good enough to play professionally their talent will prove out whether they verbal at 11 or 18. And the earlier the verbal the better the chance is they'll burn out IMO.
Man FP you have a one track mind. Absolutely they go hand and hand. It's called opportunity! No matter what it is in all aspects of life not just softball. You've heard of the glass ceiling or maybe you haven't? The more opportunity the better...
I don't care if it's a 1st grader. Helllloooo It's opportunity!
As far as agenda I have none. My DD has her dream opportunity and our family couldn't be happier.
All good here Buddy!
fastpitchdad05 wrote:tbjd33 wrote:fastpitchdad05 wrote:tbjd33 wrote:You guys dislike early verbals or dare is say any verbal. Now doubting this...
Meanwhile vast majority of verbals work and don't turn out negative and growth of softball is growing. It's exciting in person and entertaining on TV. Currently, it carries a higher TV rating than baseball, women's basketball and every other NCAA sport not Football or Basketball.
Send a positive message and maybe just maybe this is the start of something for DD's. It is a start and if anything else potential opportunity!
Just sayin...
Not sure how you think one relates to the other. There are young men coming out and saying now that the early recruiting in football (which is nowhere near as early as softball) is a crime.
Sorry 33. This doesn't fit your misguided agenda. If your DD (or anyone's for that matter) is good enough to play professionally their talent will prove out whether they verbal at 11 or 18. And the earlier the verbal the better the chance is they'll burn out IMO.
Man FP you have a one track mind. Absolutely they go hand and hand. It's called opportunity! No matter what it is in all aspects of life not just softball. You've heard of the glass ceiling or maybe you haven't? The more opportunity the better...
I don't care if it's a 1st grader. Helllloooo It's opportunity!
As far as agenda I have none. My DD has her dream opportunity and our family couldn't be happier.
All good here Buddy!
A few of those "opportunities":
- The opportunity to burn out at an early age while you live your parents' dream
- The opportunity to make a decision at a very early age that you will likely regret when you get older
- The opportunity for your dad to walk around in your college gear like a peacock (maybe, if you don't burn out or change your mind or have your mind changed for you)
- The opportunity to have the school pull your verbal because you didn't progress from the player you were at 12 or 13 to the level they hoped at age 17
- The opportunity for you to really look around at different schools and decide which one you would like to attend (oh wait you don't get that one because you were pressured into verballing to 'The state I would never live in' University at 12
And my favorite...
- The opportunity for college coaches to dash a young girl's dreams by pulling her verbal and then spilling crocodile tears while blaming "the system" aka somebody else
33 , what you can't see is that the later verbal actually provides BETTER opportunities.
That said, I do wish your DD and your family the best of luck. Maybe you'll be one of the more fortunate ones.
Dugout Dad wrote:A few of those "opportunities":
- The opportunity to burn out at an early age while you live your parents' dream
- The opportunity to make a decision at a very early age that you will likely regret when you get older
- The opportunity for your dad to walk around in your college gear like a peacock (maybe, if you don't burn out or change your mind or have your mind changed for you)
- The opportunity to have the school pull your verbal because you didn't progress from the player you were at 12 or 13 to the level they hoped at age 17
- The opportunity for you to really look around at different schools and decide which one you would like to attend (oh wait you don't get that one because you were pressured into verballing to 'The state I would never live in' University at 12
And my favorite...
- The opportunity for college coaches to dash a young girl's dreams by pulling her verbal and then spilling crocodile tears while blaming "the system" aka somebody else
33 , what you can't see is that the later verbal actually provides BETTER opportunities.
That said, I do wish your DD and your family the best of luck. Maybe you'll be one of the more fortunate ones
Dead on 05.......