2022 Recruiting Thread

[Moose Stuff]

Enhanced with insane talent. Skip Bertman said on many interviews they played for the same 3 HR anyone else like……..TCU could have done.
Compare the 2 stadiums back then.

I’m not saying they weren’t talented to begin with but these are guys that I played with and against… guys that I KNOW… they were 100% enhanced. It’s a fact.

 

[FrogBall09]

Enhanced with insane talent. Skip Bertman said on many interviews they played for the same 3 HR anyone else like……..TCU could have done.
Compare the 2 stadiums back then.

Things have changed so much in baseball recruiting from a geographic perspective- especially for TCU

I remember when I showed up for my first team meeting and met Greg Holle - at the time it seemed crazy some giant from New York ended up at TCU to play baseball

I think we were much more limited in who we were able to get to campus

Now it almost seems more out of place when we get a true local kid

 

[Moose Stuff]

Things have changed so much in baseball recruiting from a geographic perspective- especially for TCU

I remember when I showed up for my first team meeting and met Greg Holle - at the time it seemed crazy some giant from New York ended up at TCU to play baseball

I think we were much more limited in who we were able to get to campus

Now it almost seems more out of place when we get a true local kid

The cost of attendance and scholarships limits have forced to TCU to recruit nationally. The pool of kids they can realistically get has just been so much smaller than the state schools because of that. NIL will change that to our benefit.

 

[FrogBall09]

The cost of attendance and scholarships limits have forced to TCU to recruit nationally. The pool of kids they can realistically get has just been so much smaller than the state schools because do that. NIL will change that to our benefit.

I also think our brand is much larger geographically now then when I played

Cost of attendance may push us to cast a wider net but without the success, there is no way you would be convincing the number of kids we have coming in from out of state to come to TCU to play

 

[Moose Stuff]

I also think our brand is much larger geographically now then when I played

Cost of attendance may push us to cast a wider net but without the success, there is no way you would be convincing the number of kids we have coming in from out of state to come to TCU to play

No doubt that’s true. I played from 89-94 and I’m not sure we had even one non Texas kid on the team when I first got there.

 

[FrogBall09]

No doubt that’s true. I played from 89-94 and I’m not sure we had even one non Texas kid on the team.

It was rare even up to my time and you “expected” a lot from them when it happened for sure because we assumed they had really been recruited - even though that was not always as true as we hoped

 

[LoudFrog]

No doubt that’s true. I played from 89-94 and I’m not sure we had even one non Texas kid on the team when I first got there.

Phil cincy Dishman, zim? Who else

 

[Moose Stuff]

Phil cincy Dishman, zim? Who else

Shawn Stanek, Adam Robson, Danny Adair. Darren Tawwater, Jason Carruth, JJ Gottsch, Gavin Millay…. Bunch of transfers/out of state guys on that good 1994 team.

 

[Peacefrog]

Shawn Stanek, Adam Robson, Danny Adair. Darren Tawwater, Jason Carruth, JJ Gottsch, Gavin Millay…. Bunch of transfers/out of state guys on that good 1994 team.

Impressive to remember all those names. I don’t remember the entire year.

 

[Westsider]

Kills me how small the rosters were back then. Not much pitching staff …. Here’s the ball kid, go throw 9.

 

[PurplFrawg]

The TCU Diamond was good enough back in those days. In fact IMO it was as good or better than much of the SWC. Old Clark field at UT was novel and historic, but a dump by today's standards. Baylor, Rice, Tech were crap holes. Especially Baylor. Then there was SMU. It was literally an empty lot behind some dorms. TCU's big purple center field wall was cool for the day and the playing surface a hell of a lot better than much of the conference. Nothing special...just different times. Simple.

 

[yurintroubl]

No doubt that’s true. I played from 89-94 and I’m not sure we had even one non Texas kid on the team when I first got there.

You had at least one from Arizona by the time I was on campus in 92... bc he was my roommate for a spell.

 

[OmniscienceFrog]

That baseball field was the pre-purple centerfield wall located field.

 

[PurplFrawg]

That baseball field was the pre-purple centerfield wall located field.

Yep. I don't remember this field, just the one where right center field was under the observatory.

 

[Wexahu]

What year is this from? Pretty amazing photo given what it looks like today. Looks like the ACS west side is almost under construction or something.

 

[PurplFrawg]

What year is this from? Pretty amazing photo given what it looks like today. Looks like the ACS west side is almost under construction or something.

Not sure. Both Colby Hall and Milton Daniel are under construction. Alice Carlson looks totally different. I played a lot of basketball in that old gym behind Pete Wright, and handball/weights in the Little Gym. Probably saw @RufeBruton swimming in the mini-pool!

 

[PurplFrawg]

What year is this from? Pretty amazing photo given what it looks like today. Looks like the ACS west side is almost under construction or something.

I am thinking 1956-57.

 

[Double D]

Plenty of parking.

What year is this from? Pretty amazing photo given what it looks like today. Looks like the ACS west side is almost under construction or something.

 

[corpuschristifrog]

 

[Palliative Care]

Alice Carlson looked just like this when I went there. I played in the construction of those dorms. Things were not so restrictive on construction sites in those days. Great picture….