Five years ago, Robin Lund was a tenured professor and volunteer softball coach at Northern Iowa. Today, he's a pitching coach for the Detroit Tigers. How did Lund get here? CodyStavenhagen has the details of an incredible journey.
Ryan Jacobs wishes he could have recorded a few of the conversations, talks that involved an old friend, a bright thinker, a man who, somehow, went from college professor toThe first of these talks came a few years ago, when that old friend, Robin Lund, called Jacobs out of the blue.Jacobs and Lund go way back to the early 2000s, when Jacobs was an assistant baseball coach at Northern Iowa and Lund was a first-year professor.
That led to a few more conversations Jacobs wishes he could revisit now. There were administrators and other professors on campus who were shocked Lund would leave UNI. He had a six-figure salary, a cush teaching job and — thanks to Jacobs’ softball program — an outlet for his athletic passion. What more could you ask for?Of course, Jacobs got some odd looks.“They couldn’t believe me,” Jacobs said, “until I explained to them that he’s the unique piece to the puzzle that the sport is looking for.
In his short time at UNI, Lund helped revolutionize everything about the program. Suddenly every event was charted and measured. Even players on the bench had a job during games. Lund would input data from Rapsodo or Blast Motion and put it into his own spreadsheets. UNI still uses all of Lund’s systems four years later.
“Half of were in his classes,” Jacobs said. “He could stand in front of the room, and they were already at attention, and whatever he was gonna say was gonna be what they were gonna do.” All those changes in baseball? They helped spark a chain of events that led Lund to a bigger hitting job at Iowa.were in the process of revamping their organization, focusing more on development and seeking out some of the brightest minds in the game. The Yankees hired away two of Heller’s assistants. Desi Druschel is now an assistant pitching coach in the major leagues, and Joe Migliaccio is the organization’s hitting coordinator.
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