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1. The Genesis of "The Championship Project"

"The Championship Project" started as a way for me to put my ideas on paper about how to bring a national championship to a small NCAA Division II baseball program in Athens, WV.  One evening, while having learned that I would officially be named the next head coach at my alma mater, Concord University, I created a private blog to collect my thoughts on how I  was going to "change the world." Call it naivety, stubbornness, or sheer determination, I was convinced that an underfunded and under-resourced program could take on and defeat the "titans" of Division II Baseball.  In order to accomplish such a large feat, it was going to take a methodical approach to building a program.  Although the original blog has long since been abandoned, the idea remained that the development of our program should be studied, documented and improved upon. Since then, after 5 years as the head coach at Concord, I was afforded the opportunity to take over the University