RECRUITING - PART 1
MICHAEL STALOWAY - ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
Mike Stalowy begins his fourth season as assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at his alma mater in 2017-18.
A former member of the Illinois State baseball team, Stalowy served as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Bellarmine University from 2012-13, where he helped the team to a conference title and a regional final appearance. In 2014, he served as the top assistant at Valparaiso.
Stalowy was a four-year member of the Redbird baseball team from 2006-09, and he served as a student assistant coach in 2010. A utility player throughout his playing career, Stalowy played six different defensive positions, encompassing all four infield spots and both corner outfield positions.
This is part 1 of a 3 part series discussing recruiting as it relates to me personally and division 1 baseball. As part of these articles, I would like to discuss what you need to be doing as a parent or player, what I do as a recruiter, and lay out some general information as it pertains to recruiting at the D1 level. For the purpose of this article I will cover general information on scholarships, roster size, and the difference between public and private Universities. To understand recruiting, you will need to understand the numbers.
We are allowed to have 35 players on the spring roster. In many situations, schools will have more than 35 guys on their fall roster. We do not have to get our roster to 35 until the week before our first game. Many factors will dictate how many players a school will need for their upcoming recruiting classes. Depending on how many scholarship players are returning will dictate how many scholarship spots are available. Determining how many players are needed to fulfill a schools roster will dictate how many walk-on players are needed.
There are a lot of fallacies as it pertains to the financial side to recruiting and scholarship offers. A full scholarship will cover room, board, books, tuition, and fees. All of these categories together will give you the full cost of the school you are communicating with. This is different than “cost of attendance”. Across all of division 1 baseball, if you are a fully funded program you are allotted 11.7 full scholarships. Consider the 11.7 as the total money you have in your bank account. The 11.7 can be distributed amongst 27 players. The minimum amount of money you can give one player is 25%. The average baseball scholarship (doing simple math) will get you to a 43% scholarship. Only a select few will receive more than that and the MAJORITY will be on less than that. You will hear a lot of baseball scholarships presented in percentages. Scholarships are presented in percentages because we generally give fractions of a full scholarship.