I read something today about attending schools close to home and saw something once about the average distance baseball players end up from home.
With early signing ending today, I was just curious how far from home your son is or will be attending college. To kick it off mine will be 731 miles away
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46 miles.......just out of curiousity, let's also add what division. Wondering if kids travel further to play at certain levels. I would assume Power 5 will be the furthest. Mine is mid-major D1
580 miles, D1, Sunbelt conf, we are from PA. I'm wondering if the northern players end up traveling more often and farther (I'm guessing they do) as baseball is much more fun down south in February!
325 miles. D1
1,400 Mi, D3.
456 miles south! D1 Sunbelt
460 miles....Virginia to New York. D1.
Drove it many, many times and it was worth it every time.
630 miles, D3, SAA ☀️
Oldest - 28 Miles Mid Level D1 and love seeing "most" of the games.
Don't expect to be so lucky with youngest as I hope he'll be in more demand (fingers crossed).
2,400 miles, D3, also SAA for my 2016. His D1 brother was 3,000 miles away.
463 miles. D3.
Here's another question - how many trips to watch baseball per season, on average?
Right now I'm thinking one visit per month, and one more for post season tournament if they make it, or two during the final month if they're not.
1,750 miles, 28 hours driving, 5-hours flying. The best thing that ever happened to our son, going away and learning to be on his own!
I'll get to most of the home games......and quite a few away games including (hopefully) NC State and Campbell during the spring trip. Most of their road trips (conference and non-conference) after the first month are within 2 hours.
#2 son 929 miles to NESCAC
plan to visit 2x per month during season at home or away games
Ill have to increase my visits to older son at SEC 800 miles away
130 miles, Power 5 school — guessing I skew the results. 
ILVBB posted:1,750 miles, 28 hours driving, 5-hours flying. The best thing that ever happened to our son, going away and learning to be on his own!
Bout the same for Ryno. 1,805 miles, 28 hours driving. He and his mom made the trip this summer.
As far as visits, we plan to go to their first 2 series, because the bookend a week in Waco/San Antonio. (My wife's brother lives in Austin, so it will save us some hotel money, and we'll get to see family.)
Then we are kicking around going to New Orleans for the Tulane Series, since it is my wife's b-day, and we've never been.
Then probably to the Big10 Tourney in Omaha, NE. We may drive for this one, even though it is 17 hours away.
320-miles D1
After 5-years of boarding school (840 miles currently) and spending Jr year of HS in Europe (4,100 miles), college should be a breeze at 320 miles.
Will be the closest son has been to home since age 14. 
835 miles, Power 5, 1 x month or more if we can make it work
MidAtlanticDad posted:
Thanks Mid - That is the chart that I remember seeing! Surprised that there are so many responses on here that are well outside the 184 mile average in the chart. For all those that are close, enjoy being able to see them play. For the rest of us, strategic planning and scheduling will be a must!
If everything works out, 1,300 miles and D1. Fingers and toes crossed!
Son is HS soph. Target school list for next year is the following:
110 mi
537 mi
603 mi
300 mi
596 mi
Son can go as far away as he wants, wherever he wants, within budget constraints.
I hope it is close to home, so I can see him play, but not imposing this on him.
When my son went off to college, I had the Southwest rule; he could go anywhere Southwest Airlines flew!
For a couple of years I tried to counsel students/parents as to schools where their kids could go and play baseball. I gave up because most parents wanted to see their kids play baseball as if they were in HS. They put schools on the list which were a 5-6 hour drive but not schools which were a 2-3 hour flight. It was never about money, it was Mom and Dad wanted to have the same kind of experience watching their kid as they had while he was in HS. In the end; parents had less realistic goals for their kids than the kids themselves. Go figure!
175 miles away, D1. I'm assuming about 1x/month we'll visit. Would be more but we also have a daughter running HS track in the spring. We were open to whatever was the best fit but really prayed he stayed in Texas so we could see a bunch of games.
JCG posted:463 miles. D3.
Here's another question - how many trips to watch baseball per season, on average?
Right now I'm thinking one visit per month, and one more for post season tournament if they make it, or two during the final month if they're not.
We planned once a month when our son was playing JuCo and D2. Both were about 250 miles away. In some cases the away games were closer than home games.
3000 mi...D1.
I like ILVBB's Southwest Airlines rule. Another tough one is when son only has 4 days off for Thanksgiving. Too far and expensive to see for such a short time.
2015 - 23 miles D1 (make most games, including league road games; probably get to 60% of spring training games which require flights. I can usually catch balance of games on internet)
But his brother's (2018 non-athlete) first choice is 761 miles away
JCG posted:463 miles. D3.
Here's another question - how many trips to watch baseball per season, on average?
Right now I'm thinking one visit per month, and one more for post season tournament if they make it, or two during the final month if they're not.
I agree with ILVBB rule. We were a three hour SW flight away and direct so we could leave on Friday afternoon and make the Friday eve start in a pinch.
We looked over the schedule and in general went ~once per month, almost a week during Easter break when they played 5-6 games, plus conference tournaments, Regionals and one CWS. My son's team won 3 of 4 conference championships, and we went to four straight Regionals, so we lucky (not from a financial point of view 
) but hey you only are in this position once in your life.
Plan in advance and get the SW credit card at the right time to earn enough points to get a free companion pass. A couple of other cost savers. Pre-book cars on Priceline and get them much cheaper, also it is not well known, but cars are much cheaper if rented off airport. Most parent groups work out deals with local hotels. Finally plan on spending A LOT more than you originally budgeted for stock up food runs, dinners out with roommates, teammates, Margaritas!, it all adds up.
oldest - 1,000 - While the home games were far away many of the conference away games were within driving distance.
youngest - 700 - Then I moved 300 miles further away. I flew. I didn’t matter. I remember doing play by play over the phone for each at bat to a former board member for his son’s first college game. He was 2,600 miles away. I lived near the college.
807 miles and yet the same cold latitude as Connecticut. 
P5.
My son's current #1 is about 2,900 miles away (driving). His original "dream school" is about 33 miles away. And other choices are all over the map! He could end up anywhere, I have no idea.
But if he goes away, I'm certain my wife & I won't be able to attend too many games; we have 3 other kids at home.
I have changed my opinion over the years. Make sure that if your son goes far away, the coaching staff will offer the support needed for him. If not, it's mighty lonely far far away.
JMO
Do I get some kind of prize? D3, 5017 miles. Trying to work out a spring break trip but have two younger sons still playing high school ball, so don't want to miss their games either. Ugh.
500 miles, Power 5
2,300 Miles NCAA Division 1....Los Angeles to South Carolina
A solid 13.8 Miles. Mid Major D-1. This year every game will be within a 4 hour drive, with the exception of a mid week series at Ohio State.
Goin_yard posted:A solid 13.8 Miles. Mid Major D-1. This year every game will be within a 4 hour drive, with the exception of a mid week series at Ohio State.
Man. I. am. so. jealous.
D3 - 27 miles - will be at most games on weekends, mid week will depend on 2019 HS schedule.
biggest concern is being able to do job during ball season.
smokeminside posted:Do I get some kind of prize? D3, 5017 miles. Trying to work out a spring break trip but have two younger sons still playing high school ball, so don't want to miss their games either. Ugh.
Holy Schmoly,
Smoke where the heck are you????? Your bio says, "West."
5017 miles???? Sure you're not East????? (as in Asia?)
Definitely a winner in my book!
2.5 hours driving. Far enough where my son feels his independence but close enough where I can get in my car to go watch some of his games.
