In today’s episode, I speak to Marcus Davis. Marcus is a hitting coach in the private sector but has been on each side of the spectrum from former Midland and professional player to now coach of the 17U Braves.

He brings a wide variety of content about college recruiting, working with players, parents' expectations, and hitting as well.

He talks about working with players in the cage.

Learn about work habits and the ability of players to work through some adversity in this episode.

SHOW NOTES

[2:38] What's been your experience you coaching travel baseball last couple of years?

[3:36] What are you looking for when it comes to just players on your team obviously you can't take everybody. What type of players are you looking for?

[5:02] These days it seems that there are probably way more kids feeling that they're a top prospect when they're not actually but because of how early a lot of the recruiting is and social media. How did you handle the hype?

[6:40] Do you see that though with other kids nowadays where they get some attention and then they maybe get a little bit complacent they stop working because they get an offer really early on for big schools?

[9:34] Why do you need to be traveling all over the country if you're already really good at getting offers at a young age?

[11:30] How do you go about choosing the tournaments that you guys are going to play in?

[12:20] Are you guys able to practice during the summer and how does that work with the travel schedule?

[13:49] You played at junior college in Walters state and then went on to Florida state, so you went from a junior college to a power five school. 

[22:33] How could you expect these parents and players to know what it's like?

[28:39] Why did you decide to go to a power five school?

[29:45] You already had performed at junior college which is good baseball it wasn't like you went from high school.

[32:24] What if his thing is I might go to JUCO for a year and then try to transfer but he already has division one offers?

[38:11] How do you go about helping your own guys?

[40:43] Is there a system you have when it comes to working with guys?

[42:48 ] If you're hitting baseballs over 100 miles an hour you probably don't need to set aside just an hour focused solely on bat speed training.

[50:23] What's the best way for someone to contact you if they want to hit with you?

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