2019Dad posted:adbono posted:BACDOORSLIDER wrote, "The problem that many (not all) of the new parents seem to not get is you are being played by the industry.....and your son might suffer for it..."
This is absolutely the point and 100% correct.
Being played by the industry? I guess because I freely promoted a Boras event on a free message board? Same thing when a parent posts about the Jupiter tournament, right? They're being played by the industry?
Let me be crystal clear: my son's team is not in the Boras Classic. He doesn't play for one of those teams listed. I just think it's a cool tournament. A high school team tournament. To JCG's point, it's fun for the boys who play in it -- and my son has a lot of friends playing in it this year.
billsfanla posted:And I recall Notre Dame, a Boras invited team, was loaded with commits last year, plus they had Hunter Greene. They were knocked out in the first round of the playoffs by a scrappy public school team.
Hunter Greene graduated in 2017. They could have used him last year.
adbono posted:I also don't like it when rich private high schools recruit the best players, give them scholarships, and then brag about how many D1 commits they have. That rubs me the wrong way too.
Boras is the one advertising it for these high school teams, but anyway Mira Costa, Cypress, Yucaipa, Huntington Beach, Ayala, and La Mirada are all public schools . . .
This thread is hilarious. I posted about a big high school tournament. And I copied some of Boras' advertising. And that pissed some people off? It rubbed them the wrong way?
By the way, the NHSI is coming up in a few months. USA Baseball invites 16 high school baseball teams from across the country to play a tournament in Cary, NC. Is that topic off limits on HSBBW, too? How about the USA Baseball National Team? Also off limits? And Bacdoor, no one is saying it means anything, it's high school baseball. It's a game. It's fun. But it sure doesn't seem like it when I read your posts.
Sorry I offended you, my comments had really nothing to do with you or your son. It's a common feeling I get and have gotten for many years from parents. It's the importance given to how many D1 commits you listed as if that matters to anyone. Obviously it matters to you but it shouldn't... because a D1 commit now days means very little .
I don't know if you personally are being played , but many many are.... Twitter, Facebook, PG, PBR , Driveline all of it . I guess some of that is good but most is hype, press, whatever you want to call it.
"Pleased, Honored, blessed beyond all that I have committed to play baseball and further my academic career at blah blah school." it's on twitter non-stop. give me a break. They act they have broken the schools homerun record , made the president's list every semester and have 4 jobs offers, but cannot decide if they want to play in the MLB or the NFL or settle for a wall street job. In reality they ans I said from the beginning have done nothing but committed to a school they may never play for. What happened to saying nothing?
Baseball is predominately a regionally recruited sport due to limits placed on schools by the NCAA and the school. I guess I really should not waste my time trying to explain the landscape that these new parents are trying traverse. And yes the USA Baseball Nation Team is a joke.... from top to bottom.. the college team is not so much the high school thing , it's a laugher.