Last night at San Jose Muni the season ended for Menlo School and the brilliant career of the Head Coach, Craig Schoof, came to a conclusion. Craig retired this year as the AD and head coach at Menlo, During his years as the baseball coach, the team went from 0-22 to numerous CCS titles. Our son played for Craig and was inspired, as were so many others, to play beyond HS. Some of the mental aspects our son learned from Craig inspired him to believe he could play beyond college, which he did, and to have a passion to become a baseball coach, which he is.
During his career, Craig did not always have the best talent, but his coaching always made his teams compete at a level most would not have guessed.
My position is Craig's coaching was always worth one run per game.
In this article, John Reid does a really nice job of capturing some of the essence of why Craig made his mark and it didn't matter if team had Stanford recruits or one kid going to a D3. Menlo and CCS have lost a terrific HS baseball coach.
http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula-sports/ci_25848284/reid-column-schoofs-swan-song-fittingly-at-san
During his career, Craig did not always have the best talent, but his coaching always made his teams compete at a level most would not have guessed.
My position is Craig's coaching was always worth one run per game.
In this article, John Reid does a really nice job of capturing some of the essence of why Craig made his mark and it didn't matter if team had Stanford recruits or one kid going to a D3. Menlo and CCS have lost a terrific HS baseball coach.
http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula-sports/ci_25848284/reid-column-schoofs-swan-song-fittingly-at-san