What’s In This Issue?
• New Innovation For Baseball: Marc Rardin explains how he took full advantage of new NCAA rule to not only produce unpickable signs but also speed up games.
• Butch Thompson Explains High Tech Scouting System: Days of cutting tape, scouting in person are nearly extinct.
• NCAA Div. 3 Suffers $7.6 Million Deficit For 2019-20:
Cancellation of winter and spring championships due to coronavirus causes big problem.
• Editorial: Wisconsin Makes Bad Decision With Seniors: Colossal mistake made by by not allowing seniors in spring sports to return in 2021 despite opposite ruling by NCAA Division I Council.
• Elite Coaches Explained By Pat Williams: After interviewing 800 key people, he finds out what makes fabulous coaches the way they are.
• The Best Coaches In College Baseball History: LSU’s Hall of Fame Coach Skip Bertman had an ingenious system to calling pitches in games with precision, and he breaks down how he did it.
• Pitcher’s Response To Batter’s Stance, Swing: Jerry Weinstein, Andy McKay give 26 batter characteristics and how a pitcher should exploit them.
• Overcoming Torture: Jim Brady won $1.8 million jury award after retaliation, harassment by school administrators at Missouri-St. Louis.
• Gary Ward Column: Find a top mentor who exhibits greatness, and you will find many answers to becoming an elite level coach.
• Arizona State’s Bobby Winkles Dies: One of the greatest coaches in college history, who led the Sun Devils to three national titles, passes away at the age of 90.
• Nova H.S. Head Coach Pat McQuaid Steps Down: One of the greatest high school coaches in history retires from Nova High School (Davie, Fla.). His amazing system is explored in detail.
• Ruleball With Rich Marzzzi: It is important to know ‘Protection’ rules in baseball.
• Book Reviews: Two superb books hit the market in The Team and The Sons Of Chester: A Tale Of Small Town Boys, Baseball, and Very Big Dreams.
• Tom Kovic Column: Families in recruiting process must have clear direction moving forward
• NCAA Revises Eligibility Standards For H.S. Graduates: High school students intent on playing NCAA Div. I or II baseball whose final semester of their senior year was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic will have several pathways to meet the NCAA’s initial-eligibility requirements this year.
