Clemson Tigers baseball coach Erik Bakich is putting his team through the paces of workouts and scrimmages this fall.
, where he played for Keith LeClair, who was a protégé of Clemson’s legendary coach, Jack Leggett.“I started here, I love it here,” he said. “Everyone has a certain fondness and reverence for their alma mater. I certainly have mine playing for Keith LeClair at East Carolina, one of Coach Leggett's proteges. But I got to start here.”
“The start here was to get paid in Gatorade bars and T-shirts and to wake up every day excited about coming to Clemson, and fell in love with Clemson, and that never changed, that never wavered,” he said. “This was always a destination to aspire to come back, if the stars were to align, and it could happen the right way,” he said. “Not with Coach Leggett being let go, right? That's not the way. But with him coming back, there's nowhere else we want to be.”
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