quote:Originally posted by CADad:
You can tell to some degree by how personalized the invitation is. The more personalized, the more likely they have genuine interest. If you are uncertain, call or e-mail the coach and see what kind of response you get.
Generally speaking a position player needs to really standout to be noticed if he isn't already on the school's radar. The unfortunate reality is that most of the position players are there to fill in for the camp games.
Pitchers are a little bit different as velocity will show up on a radar gun and upper 80s with movement will get an unkown pitcher noticed. Don't go there and expect a great pitching performance at 78 mph to get noticed.
Sending back a camp invitation in response to an e-mail is a pretty standard practice. If they are serious they'll usually do something to make it fairly obvious.
Given your location I'd recommend sending a PM to TRhit with some objective info about your son's abilities and see what he has to say.
For one school he sent an e-mail to the link on the website with some information about himself and got an e-mail back from the camp coordinator but then a week or so later got an e-mail from the recruiting director inviting him to the camp. Is this the normal process?