I paid my son’s travel coach about $1,500 for one on one hitting lessons over ten weeks. The lessons overlapped the travel team winter workouts by five weeks. Since the lessons were away from the team I didn’t think anything about paying. The impact of the lessons eventually had about a 40K ROI.
The only thing that bothered me about paying is the coach mostly drove home what I had been telling my son for two years, “There’s going to be a day when you can’t pull everything.” What did dad know? He only played college ball. The travel coach was a former D1 coach and associate pro scout on his way to becoming a full time pro scout. I paid for my son to listen.
The previous summer (after freshman year) my son was starting to tune me out. At the end of one day I was a little irritated with him I told him after this year someone else is going to have to coach him and kick his arse to the next level. There was a 17u coach watching and waiting to talk to us. Talk about giving him an opening!