Former Tiger to join Bradley LeCroy’s staff at VCU

Former Tiger and Clemson coach Bradley LeCroy won’t be the only Tiger on the staff at VCU. LeCroy was recently hired as the head coach and we have confirmed that he will be joined by one of his former players. Andrew Cox will be an assistant coach …

Former Tiger and Clemson coach Bradley LeCroy won’t be the only Tiger on the staff at VCU.  LeCroy was recently hired as the head coach and we have confirmed that he will be joined by one of his former players.

Andrew Cox will be an assistant coach for VCU.  Last month Cox was hired as an assistant at UNC Greensboro but will now be making the move to Virginia.

Cox spent the last two season as an assistant with Western Carolina.  Before heading to Western Carolina Cox spent two years at Furman as a volunteer assistant and director of baseball operations.

LeCroy lands first head coaching job

Former Clemson player and long time assistant Bradley LeCroy has landed his first head coaching job. The Clemson Insider has confirmed that LeCroy will be the next head coach at VCU. From 2003-05, LeCroy served as a volunteer assistant for the …

Former Clemson player and long time assistant Bradley LeCroy has landed his first head coaching job.  The Clemson Insider has confirmed that LeCroy will be the next head coach at VCU.

From 2003-05, LeCroy served as a volunteer assistant for the Tigers. In 2007, he spent a year at Western Carolina, then three at Tennessee. In 2011, he returned to Clemson. Since 2011, he has served as recruiting coordinator and infielders coach as well as working with the hitters.

LeCroy played at Clemson from 1997-2000, was a member of Clemson’s 2000 College World Series team and was on four NCAA Tournament teams. LeCroy hit .266 in 173 career games and 395 at-bats.

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Special thanks to Bradley LeCroy, who gave it all for Clemson

On this Father’s Day, I thought I would say thanks to someone who has served as a father-like figure for over two decades of Clemson baseball, Bradley LeCroy. Over the past couple of weeks, while others focused on finding the next head baseball …

On this Father’s Day, I thought I would say thanks to someone who has served as a father-like figure for over two decades of Clemson baseball, Bradley LeCroy.

Over the past couple of weeks, while others focused on finding the next head baseball coach to lead the Tigers, LeCroy worked hard to convince existing players to remain at Clemson and signees to enroll this summer.  Many would not have put in the effort that he did, knowing he would likely be coaching elsewhere next season. LeCroy bleeds orange and that has never shown more than the past few weeks.

LeCroy’s two sons, Crew and Cooper, grew up in the dugout and on the field at Doug Kingsmore Stadium. The players loved having them around the team and in the dugout during some of the games.

From 2003-2005, LeCroy served as a volunteer assistant for the Tigers. In 2007, he spent a year at Western Carolina, then three at Tennessee. In 2011, he returned to Clemson. Since 2011, he has served as recruiting coordinator and infielders coach as well as working with the hitters.

LeCroy played at Clemson from 1997-2000, was a member of Clemson’s 2000 College World Series team and was on four NCAA Tournament teams. LeCroy hit .266 in 173 career games and 395 at-bats.

I would like to thank Bradley and his wife, Meredith, for all that they have done for Clemson baseball over the years.  Best of luck to wherever your future takes you.

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Is Clemson assistant a candidate for baseball job?

As athletic director Graham Neff begins his search for Clemson’s next baseball coach, a veteran assistant is filling in on an interim basis. But could he be a candidate for the permanent job? Bradley LeCroy has been assigned to hold down the fort …

As athletic director Graham Neff begins his search for Clemson’s next baseball coach, a veteran assistant is filling in on an interim basis. But could he be a candidate for the permanent job?

Bradley LeCroy has been assigned to hold down the fort following Monte Lee’s firing Tuesday, but Neff said he doesn’t anticipate considering LeCroy as a viable candidate.

“But I do proceed him to be an incredibly important part of a transition process here,” said Neff, who has also asked Brad Owens, the program’s director of operations, to help oversee the program until a hire is made. “He carried himself in that regard seven years ago. I’ve had time to meet with him and Brad (Tuesday) afternoon and charge them and ask them to help do that transitionally.

LeCroy, who interviewed for the job when Jack Leggett was fired following the 2015 season, has been a part of Clemson’s staff for two tenures spanning 15 years total. A former Clemson player who was a member of the Tigers’ 2000 College World Series team, LeCroy has spent the last 12 seasons at Clemson working with the hitters and infielders.

LeCroy has also served as recruiting coordinator since returning to Clemson following the 2010 season. He first coached on Leggett’s staff as a volunteer assistant from 2003-05.

Neff did not indicate whether or not LeCroy or pitching coach Andrew See would have an opportunity to remain on the next coach’s staff.

Playing for ‘dream school,’ Blackwell makes memorable first impression at Clemson

Ben Blackwell recorded 411 at-bats during his three seasons at Dayton. With just six of them ending in home runs, he was far from a power threat in the Flyers’ lineup. Clemson’s new shortstop could’ve fooled his teammates, coaches and the 5,279 fans …

Ben Blackwell recorded 411 at-bats during his three seasons at Dayton. With just six of them ending in home runs, he was far from a power threat in the Flyers’ lineup.

Clemson’s new shortstop could’ve fooled his teammates, coaches and the 5,279 fans in attendance during the Tigers’ season opener Friday.

In the bottom of the second inning, Blackwell dug in for his first at-bat as a Tiger against Indiana right-hander John-Biagio Modugno, who figured he’d work ahead of Clemson’s nine-hole hitter with a get-me-over fastball. Blackwell – all 5-foot-11 and 185 pounds of him – had other ideas.

He uncoiled on Modugno’s first offering, depositing it halfway up the left-field seats more than 400 feet away from home plate. It was the only long ball hit in Clemson’s 9-0 win.

“Great environment,” Blackwell said afterward. “Absolutely loved the opportunity.”

Blackwell credited Clemson coach Monte Lee and the rest of the Tigers’ coaching staff as much as himself for the home run with the scouting work they did in preparation for the game. Clemson knew Modugno favored a sinker that naturally ran inside to right-handed hitters, so Blackwell said the plan going in was to look for it on the inner third of the plate. Sure enough, Modugno threw that pitch but left it up in the strike zone, and Blackwell didn’t miss it.

“We talked a little bit about it,” Lee said. “Their starter has a sinking fastball, a fastball that had some arm-side run and was running in on right-handed hitters. And (Blackwell) did a really good job of being on time and jumping on that sinker that was running in, turned on it and smoked it. It was good to see that.”

It was quite the first impression during a day that came up roses for Blackwell even when things didn’t always go exactly as planned. Blackwell got just two at-bats because he laid down a safety squeeze in the fourth inning. He bunted the ball directly back to Modugno as Jonathan French broke from third base, but Modugno fell down as he tried to field it, allowing French to score without a throw.

“He had one heck of a day. Even executed the safety squeeze to perfection,” Lee said with a grin. “Thank God the guy’s feet flipped out from under him.”

Blackwell isn’t exactly filling small shoes with his new team. All-ACC shortstop James Parker left Clemson two years early after the Seattle Mariners made him the Tigers’ highest-drafted player last summer. Parker was Clemson’s leading hitter a season ago with a .324 average.

While Lee praised Blackwell’s defense during the preseason, whether or not he can be a consistent offensive threat against ACC pitching remains to be seen, though he hit .349 in 51 games for Dayton last season. It’s the highest clip of his career so far.

But what made Friday’s performance even more special for Blackwell is the fact that he did it at what he called a “dream school” for him. The Fairfax, Virginia, native has family in the area, but Blackwell said it was more than that that sold him on Lee’s program being the one with which he wanted to finish his collegiate career.

“Honestly, the family here, the fan base and the school itself is just incredible,” Blackwell said. “I’m incredibly thankful for the opportunity, but also getting to play under coaches like Coach Lee and working with (assistant coach Bradley) LeCroy every single day is just unbelievable. You couldn’t ask for better coaches ad better people to learn from each and every day.”

Blackwell also couldn’t have asked for a much better start to his time at Clemson.

“Honestly, just enjoying every moment,” he said. “I’m happy (my first at-bat) happened the way it did.”

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Nation’s No. 1 tight end details Clemson visit with TCI

The Clemson Insider was able to catch up with the nation’s No. 1 tight end after he made a cross-country trip to The Valley for Saturday’s game against Florida State. Pinnacle (Phoenix, AZ.) 2023 five-star tight end Duce Robinson took a red-eye …

The Clemson Insider was able to catch up with the nation’s No. 1 tight end after he made a cross-country trip to The Valley for Saturday’s game against Florida State.

Pinnacle (Phoenix, AZ.) 2023 five-star tight end Duce Robinson took a red-eye flight early Saturday morning to make it to Memorial Stadium. He flew into Charlotte with his parents, they made their way down to Clemson and stayed in the hotel for an hour or two before heading to the game.

Robinson was running on pure adrenaline. The atmosphere in Death Valley certainly kept him awake.

“I really like it there,” Robinson said. “I love Coach Elliott and Coach Swinney. I love the entire coaching staff. It’s beautiful down there. The facilities are incredible. I got to spend time around the other recruits, guys that are being recruited, so it was a lot of fun.”

How would Robinson categorize his relationship with Tony Elliott?

“It’s been one of my best relationships with a coach,” he said of Clemson’s offensive coordinator/tight ends coach. ”We keep in communication every week. We call each other once a week just to check up and see how one another is doing. I feel like we have a really good relationship.”

Robinson had a chance to speak with most of Clemson’s coaching staff. He sat down with Swinney for about 10 minutes prior to the game. Their conversation barely touched the recruiting aspect of things, in fact, Robinson described it as a regular conversation, where Swinney wanted to catch up and check in on the highly-touted prospect.

“Everybody knows, but it just reinforces that Coach Swinney is a great person at heart too,” Robinson said. “Seeing how I’m doing instead of just talking about football.”

Robinson was down in Clemson at the end of June and took an unofficial visit. He got to take in the campus and facilities, but the overall game-day experience had to wait until this past Saturday.

“It’s a completely different atmosphere on game day,” Robinson said. “When we came here during the summer, it’s beautiful and we really liked it, but that game day is just different. Being able to see the Clemson fans, how much everybody loves football there, how invested they are. Then, the atmosphere is just such a great atmosphere. It was really cool.”

The highlight for Robinson came before the game even started. College football’s most exciting 25 seconds was a whole other experience for Robinson, who was very complimentary of the tradition and clearly blown away by what he saw.

Robinson was also impressed by how the tight end position was utilized during Clemson’s 30-20 win over FSU.

“It was really cool,” he said. “Seeing Davis Allen have that big catch, seeing that catch, it was pretty sweet. Being able to see how much the tight end position is moved around in their offense, seeing how they split out wide a lot, and then seeing that it’s a position where you’re put and you’re expected to make big plays in that offense, which I think is really cool.”

After the game, Robinson headed over to baseball and had an opportunity to talk with assistant coach Bradley LeCroy.

“Me and Coach LeCroy, we had talked before over the summer and me and him and I have a really good relationship too,” Robinson said. “We haven’t been able to keep in contact a lot, but we’ve talked a couple of times and they said I could play both (football and baseball) if it’s something I wanted to do.”

While Robinson didn’t really have a chance to talk with any Clemson players, he talked to some commits in the 2022 class and spent a considerable amount of time with Isidore Newman (New Orleans, La.) five-star quarterback Arch Manning and his family.

“Me and him, we actually spent most of the time together, our two families,” Robinson said. “That was really cool. I had met him before, but we didn’t really get to have a true conversation. Being able to sit with him for most of the game and talk with him for most of the game was really cool.”

Robinson doesn’t have a timeline as far as an eventual commitment is concerned. He wants to be able to take in some official visits before making any decisions.

In addition to Clemson, Robinson has been on visits this fall to the University of Oklahoma and Washington this fall.

He is currently tabbed by 247Sports as the No. 1 prospect in the Grand Canyon State, No. 1 tight end nationally and No. 35 overall prospect in the country for the 2023 class.

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Clemson commitment still ‘hasn’t really set in’ for local product

Clemson has added its fair share of local products to its 2023 recruiting class. That includes Cayce (S.C.) Brookland Cayce High School’s Ty Marshall, who offered his verbal pledge to Clemson’s baseball program back on Oct. 6, 2020. The …

Clemson has added its fair share of local products to its 2023 recruiting class.

That includes Cayce (S.C.) Brookland Cayce High School’s Ty Marshall, who offered his verbal pledge to Clemson’s baseball program back on Oct. 6, 2020.

The switch-hitting catcher is a vocal leader, who prides himself on his ability to work with his pitchers. He’s already been in contact with pitchers in his recruiting class as he looks to formulate those relationships before he arrives in Clemson, which isn’t for another two or so years.

“I feel like I have the best relationship with every pitcher that I have than any other guy in the nation,” he told The Clemson Insider. “I just feel like a catcher-pitcher relationship is different than any other relationship on the field and I just want that to be the best relationship I have with every guy at Clemson.”

That’s the type of player the Tigers are getting in Marshall.

“Something big for me was I wanted to go to school at Clemson for a really long time,” he said. “Me and my family have been lifelong Clemson fans. We’ve been going to football games since I can remember. Coach Lee makes it seem like a family program and it really is. It’s not all about baseball for him.”

Marshall’s developed a “pretty good” relationship with Lee for over a year now. 

“Me and him have really good conversations and a big thing for him is grades and that’s something we usually talk about,” Marshall added. “That’s big for me and my family too because my family believes in always having a backup plan.”

As for assistant coach Bradley LeCroy, Marshall has just started talking to him consistently as they start carving out a connection with one another. 

“I just really like these guys,” Marshall said of Clemson’s coaching staff. “They take pride in what they do.”

Marshall hopes that he’s coming to Tiger Town to play behind the dish, but he’s willing to play wherever Lee or his team needs him to.

“I would say I feel like I’m a big leader,” he said when asked to describe himself as a player. “I’m a catcher, so everyone says the quarterback of the field, which I take pride in. I want to be the guy that people come to when things go left. I feel like I’m a really good teammate. I feel like I’m best friends with everyone on the field, which is big for me. I always like to have good connections with everyone out on the field.”

While Clemson’s 2023 recruiting class isn’t complete just yet, it’s certainly starting to take shape. Marshall described the group as a bunch of “high-energy guys.”

“We already have a really good class, like a really good class,” he said. “We’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna compete and I feel like we have a really good chance of helping out the team.”

Being a lifelong Clemson fan, Marshall still has to pinch himself at the thought of playing for his boyhood team.

“It’s really big for me,” Marshall said. “I still say it hasn’t really set in for me, but I still have to work to get there and once I get there, I’m gonna do everything I can to keep it.”

However, before he gets to Clemson, there’s a few parts of Marshall’s game that he wants to polish. He knows that he needs to mature at certain aspects of his game, like situational hitting and just working at becoming a better teammate every day. 

As a switch hitter, he also wants to become a more consistent player from both sides of the plate.

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Clemson ‘the perfect fit’ for in-state Class of 2022 commit

Being from Anderson (S.C.), Jay Dillard is quite familiar with the Clemson baseball program. He verbally committed to the Tigers last summer, back in July. 17, 2020, as a part of Clemson’s talented 2022 recruiting class. Dillard is a really sound …

Being from Anderson (S.C.), Jay Dillard is quite familiar with the Clemson baseball program.

He verbally committed to the Tigers last summer, back in July. 17, 2020, as a part of Clemson’s talented 2022 recruiting class.

Dillard is a really sound fielder, with defense always being a big focus for him. The right-handed batter and thrower is always trying to create more power from a hitting perspective in the weight room. He’s seen that come to life this past spring. 

While he plays shortstop at T.L. Hanna High School, he’s a versatile defender, who can play just about anywhere he’s needed. Dillard started in the outfield for his high school, playing left field and right field, while also playing some 2B and 3B, before making SS his home after he saw some action there during his sophomore campaign.

Dillard recently caught up with The Clemson Insider regarding his commitment to Clemson and his relationship with the coaching staff.

“I had been going to camps since I was a kid,” Dillard told TCI. “[Head] Coach [Monte] Lee coached a lot of the camps that I went to, he was always there, as well as [assistant] Coach [Bradley] LeCroy.

Dillard also mentioned Tigers’ volunteer assistant coach Jared Broughton, who coached at Piedmont College prior to Clemson. 

Broughton was also Dillard’s team coach. 

Dillard committed to Clemson maybe a year after Broughton got the position on Lee’s coaching staff. Knowing that Broughton was there and already being familiar with him, and being really familiar with Lee and LeCroy, made it a no-brainer for Dillard to stay home.

“The relationships you create over the years, it just feels like home,” Dillard said. “It’s super comfortable to talk to them, easy conversations going. You’re never looking for topics to talk about. Always being comfortable to approach them, even before I was committed. All of them are really friendly guys, who seem to have the same belief and culture that I do. Just kind of the perfect fit for me.”

For a while, Dillard couldn’t get out to Clemson. So, it was just texting back and forth with the Tigers’ coaching staff, sending videos of some of his live at-bats that he’s doing on his own, or just some swings in the cages.

At one point, Dillard and Lee talked about working on some drills for increasing his bat speed and things like that to improve his game. 

A lot of their conversations have just been about catching up with one another. They’ve talked about hunting a good bit, as they’re both avid hunters. 

“I’ve said it before, but it’s a dream come true,” Dillard said. “I grew up a Clemson fan. I’ve been going to games since I was a kid. I’m super excited about it. I know a bunch of guys that are there right now or have been there. Hearing about how much fun they’ve had over the years there, I can’t wait to get on campus.”

Dillard is one of six shortstops that’s a part of Clemson’s 2022 recruiting class.

That’s something that will have to be settled once Dillard and the rest of his future teammates arrive in Tiger Town.

Back when Lee recruited Dillard to come to Clemson, he told him that he “loves recruiting shortstops because they can play anywhere on the field.” Dillard thinks that will be something that gets solved whenever the time comes.

“It’s a loaded class if you look at it,” he said. “Everybody’s put up really good numbers over the summer and over high school season. You look at, even the rankings, Perfect Game’s rankings of everyone in the class. Everyone’s a stud. It’s a loaded class for sure.”

There’s not an added responsibility or pressure for that matter in terms of changing the tide for Clemson’s baseball program, but there is some motivation there for Dillard and Co.

“The guys that I’ve talked to that are in the class and that I’ve played with some of those guys, we’re competitors,” Dillard said. “A lot of us, that I know, want to win at whatever they do. I think it’ll be a class that comes in and just wants to win.”

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Clemson was a ‘family decision’ for recent commit

Ahead of his arrival to Clemson, Lleyton Lackey keeps harping on the “family feel” that awaits him in Tiger Town. Hailing from Georgia’s Evan High School, the Class of 2022 commit, is a speedy and instinctive athlete, who can do it all. Lackey, a …

Ahead of his arrival to Clemson, Lleyton Lackey keeps harping on the “family feel” that awaits him in Tiger Town.

Hailing from Georgia’s Evan High School, the Class of 2022 commit, is a speedy and instinctive athlete, who can do it all.

Lackey, a left-handed thrower and switch hitter recently caught up with The Clemson Insider regarding his prior recruitment and his thoughts on his incoming class.

One of the main things that Lackey wanted to pick his next school based on was family. When he officially committed to Clemson back on July 16, 2020, he chose the Tigers over programs like Tennessee and Georgia Tech.

He felt most at home in Tiger Town.

“They really preached to me the meaning of family and I wanted to make my decision based on what felt right for me and my family,” Lackey said. “It was close to home and my decision was a family decision. That’s what I wanted to be a part of.

Lackey will be an outfielder for Clemson’s baseball program.

He feels like he already has a “close bond” with head coach Monte Lee and assistant coach Bradley LeCroy.

“My relationship is real close,” he said. “I talk with Coach LeCroy and Coach Lee, about the same. I like the fact how they really just made the big pitch of family and they made me feel like I was coming to be a part of that and make an immediate impact.

“Not only about baseball, but just life itself. That was the main thing that I really wanted to focus on. That’s what really sold me, that’s what really made a connection. We talk about anything. We talk about sports, we talk about football last year. “

When Lackey won Player of the Year for his region, Lee texted him and told him “congratulations, keep it up.” 

That meant a lot to him.

“I think it’s the way I play the game,” Lackey said when asked what the Tigers like about his game. “I think that’s the most important thing, just how fast I play the game.”

If Lackey had to choose a player that he plays baseball similar to, he’d say San Diego Padres superstar shortstop Fernando Tatis, Jr. Lackey feels like he plays with a similar style of speed, swagger and excitement, he said.

Beyond that, what does Lackey bring to the table?

“I bring, first and foremost, speed, knowledge of the game,” he added. “I understand what’s supposed to happen in every situation. Confidence, just everything that’s needed in a baseball player.”

As far as Lackey’s senior season of high school baseball is concerned, his main priority is to win the region. The end goal is obviously winning a State Championship, but Lackey wants to see how far his team can take it.

Right now, he’s looking to work on his consistency before he officially enrolls at Clemson.

The Tigers’ Class of 2022 commits embrace the family feel that Lackey’s talking about.

“I think we’re pretty close,” he said. “We talk every now and then, we check up on each other, we see how each other’s doing. I actually played with a couple of players during tournaments [this summer]. We kind of started to build a relationship as well, outside of baseball.”

“We definitely want to come in and make that immediate impact and maybe go to the World Series,” Lackey added. “See how far we can take it.”

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New commit can’t thank Clemson enough for ‘amazing opportunity’

Samuel Stafura has long been on the recruiting radar of Clemson’s baseball program and assistant coach Bradley LeCroy. It didn’t take long for the infielder out of Mohegan Lake (NY.) to fall in love with Clemson. “Coach LeCroy first saw me down at …

Samuel Stafura has long been on the recruiting radar of Clemson’s baseball program and assistant coach Bradley LeCroy. It didn’t take long for the infielder out of Mohegan Lake (NY.) to fall in love with Clemson.

“Coach LeCroy first saw me down at the PG Jr National Showcase at East Cobb,” Stafura told The Clemson Insider. “I had a really good performance and had some great at-bats against some of the top pitchers in-country, including a home run.”

It was from there that LeCroy reached out after the event, impressed with what he saw out of Stafura.

He then visited Clemson’s campus a couple of weeks later.

“I visited campus and immediately knew that I wanted to go to Clemson,” Stafura added. “[Coach LeCroy] then saw me play against at 16u WWBA and offered me afterward.”

That offer was the one Stafura was waiting for.

So, what was it about Clemson that made him want to be a Tiger?

“Everything about it,” Stafura said. “I knew I wanted to be a Clemson Tiger once I visited campus. I love the campus, they’re an amazing baseball program with amazing coaches, and it just felt like a great fit academically and athletically.”

LeCroy has been Stafura’s main point of contact, but he’s also gotten to know head coach Monte Lee over the past couple of weeks.

“Through the recruiting process, I mostly spoke to Coach LeCroy, but I’ve spoken to Coach Lee a handful of times recently and they’re both very nice people,” he said. I can’t wait for them to be my coaches and I can’t thank them enough for believing in me and giving me this amazing opportunity.”

Stafura would characterize himself as a team player and someone who loves the game of baseball. With that, comes fiery competitiveness and the willingness to do whatever it takes to help his team win.

The Walter Panas high school product is a talented infielder, who has the ability to hit for average and power. He’ll also play anywhere Clemson needs him to, once he arrives on campus.

Additionally, Stafura outlined his strengths on the diamond in his conversation with TCI.

“I have a really strong ability to make plays on the run and I think my arm strength is also very beneficial,” he said. “I have lots of range and I have very fast hands.”

As he prepares for his junior season, the goal he has in mind is to compete for a State Championship. Stafura would like to take the offseason to develop in the weight room and further develop his strength/speed.

He has the defense part down though, which he attributes to his New York Mets fandom and his affinity for the team’s all-star shortstop.

“Being from New York, I watch a lot of Mets games, so I like to model my defensive game a little bit after Francisco Lindor. I like to study his fielding mechanics and learn from them to see what I could improve.”

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