My son had a very unexpected, but pleasant, surprise this week. He received a recruiting letter from a BIG TIME D1 program. While I've always thought he had the potential, this was totally out of the blue. It was from a California school. We recently, unexpectedly, we had to relocate to Texas, so all of his history is in Georgia. He/we had never even considered any schools out of the SE, at the time.
What has me perplexed is how did they find out about him? Those who may know my posts know that he hasn’t been on any travel teams, or select teams, as they call them here in Texas. He has been to a couple of college camps, an Auburn Showcase, 1 PG showcase in June, and participated in the WWBA tournament in East Cobb this past July and that's it.
While I saw that the PG Showcase and the WWBA tournament were well attended by scouts, do the California teams go that far looking for players? Or, do you think that they may just be getting a player list and sending out feelers for anyone meeting their needs, the old buckshot approach?
I will add that if attending a few well placed events gets you on the radar screen, then I’ve saved a lot of money over many of my friends!
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