by Hoover'sDad » Sat Oct 23, 2010 10:41 pm
Coach Ralph Weekly from the Univeristy of Tennessee recently gave my DD an offer to come to UT and play softball. As they were talking, the discussion of numbers came up and my DD asked if she could keep her number from travel ball, he said sure you can if it is not already taken by a current player. Coach asked what number do you currently wear, DD says 88. Coach Weekly is wide eyed now and says well that number is taken already.
Well a long story short, we turned down the offer to UT, if we cant have 88, they cant have my DD. So we have reopened our recruiting, and we are open to any school that is offering a full ride and the number 88. It would have been so simple if she had kept the #67 from T-ball back in 1998.
It's not about the great education, the college experience, or playing for one of the best programs in the country, It's about looking good in our #88 jersey. I still cant believe he wouldn't take the number from some scrub that plays left field. And he said she was fast on top of that, he must have forgotten that my DD ran a 2.55 home-first on her recruiting video that her mom and I put together.