[baseball1974]

Elijah will have to learn as he goes for the most part. He knows the game and is very intelligent, and he's had a great mentor when he was in college to learn x's and o's from at both schools. He's starting very young as a head coach. The average age of a first year high school head coach is 28. Sometimes it's hard for kids to "buy-in" to a system with somebody close to their age? However, his playing experience will earn him immediate respect, and hopefully he can be a fast learner with everything else? The key that I learned as a young coach was to surround myself with good intelligent people that I didn't mind challenging me on things. Sometimes egos in coaching won't let that happen, but Elijah seems to be a grounded kid and I think he'll be very successful.

I'm very happy that he got away from the situation at Valley. It'd be awful to see him attached to something like that early in his career? I wonder if that played a role in his decision, or if being a head coach was enough to make that move?