Gulfport’s Cade Crosby officially a Golden Eagle
Cade Crosby said, “I know a lot of kids, football, baseball, every sport really, not being able to go to the school that they wanted to or a school that they’ve been at and just having to go to another school cause of it. And the rosters going up to 40, 50 people for every school and there’s only so many scholarships and everything. So it’s crazy how much a virus can change everyone’s life.”
The coronavirus pandemic has affected everyone in some way shape or form, usually in the way that we make life choices.
For example, take recent Gulfport graduate Cade Crosby, former Samford University signee, now signed with the Southern Miss baseball program just seven months later.
A trickle-down effect from the Major League Baseball draft being shortened from 40 rounds all the way down to just five and all of a sudden Crosby is heading to Hattiesburg instead of Birmingham.
Crosby was offered by Southern Miss prior to his original commitment with Samford and USM was willing to still honor that offer even since the departure of recruiting coordinator Chad Caillet for Texas A&M last summer.
Like father, like son, Crosby’s dad, Matt Crosby, lettered in baseball at USM from 1990 to 1992 which hardly makes his new reality feel anything like a plan B. “As a kid, always wanted to be an Eagle. Always wore the shirts and everything, go to all the games, sit behind, wait for all of the players to be done to get stuff like players’ autographs, all of that, talk to everybody. So I mean just picturing myself 10 years ago, now I’m actually going to be at Southern Miss but wearing the Black and Gold, have the Eagle across my chest and everything so it’s very exciting.”
A natural shortstop, Crosby says he’ll be trying to compete for one of the middle infield spots, starting on his August 12th arrival date.
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