(06-28-2013 08:11 PM)ODU Oldtimer Wrote:  

(06-28-2013 05:01 PM)AimHigh Wrote:  

(06-28-2013 04:34 PM)ODUR8R Wrote:  Kids transferred from Great Bridge to Greenbrier all the time when I was there but it wasn't because of grades. It was generally because they were no longer welcome at Great Bridge and they almost always played on the baseball team.

I know of one person who around 99, 00 transferred to Greenbrier because she couldn't pass the LPT and no longer could play softball at GB so she transferred to Greenbrier. In the end she earned a scholarship to Liberty

Girls Softball at GB won the state title this year.

Yep! Baseball team lost in the state final 2-1... Hanover found a loophole in the rule for their star pitcher rotation/ pitch count

I like to think I was an athlete during my years at Great Bridge. I went from a solid 160 my senior year at GB to a semi-solid 220 now. I'm definitely stronger now than I was then, but its a different muscle group type of strong. My fastball at GB clocked in somewhere in the 80's. Now the middle schoolers in Norfolk I coach say I throw too slow.

BJ didn't have the grades at Hickory and that is why he went to Greenbriar. Justin transferred to Great Bridge our sophomore year due to a better baseball team at the time. GB won the state title his first year there.

(06-27-2013 02:57 PM)ODUDrunkard13 Wrote:  

(06-27-2013 02:50 PM)Cr8n Wrote:  http://hamptonroads.com/2013/06/texas-qb...u-football

Maybe I'm just too new to all the recruiting stuff but that's pretty cool. Maybe it happens often? Especially with some of the CUSA schools and the conferences baseball pedigree. But what a great testament to the kids character... I'd be looking that one in the face a long time... Yankees contract? Tough choice.

It's great trivia but it really isn't that tough of a choice. Being drafted that late, the Yankees would be giving him maybe a couple thousand dollars (if any at all) as a signing bonus, paying him peanuts in rookie ball and offering him no guarantees of a future. At ODU, he will get an education, compete at the FBS level and maybe play his way into the NFL or CFL.

Edit: Not trying to be a party pooper. I'm happy we get any recruits, let alone one of his caliber. But I found the pay scale (monthly basis) for minor leaguers (this doesn't account for the early round draft picks who have signed big contracts). As you can see, he isn't bypassing a road of gold for ODU.

Level 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year
Rookie $1150 $1200 $1250
S/S A $1150 $1200 $1250
Low A $1300 $1350 $1400
High A $1500 $1550 $1600
Double A $1700 $1800 $1900
Triple A $2150 $2400 $2700

Under the current MLB draft system teams can sign players drafted in rounds 11-40 up to $100K. Teams can also use money saved in rounds 1-10 (signing players below slot value) to sign players in rounds 11-40. Finally teams can exceed the total slot value of rounds 1-10 by 5% without paying a penalty to use on picks 1-40.

The scenario above is a common practice in the current MLB draft/signing process.