@TV posted:As a follow-up, how important are relationships between a travel program coach and the college coaches in terms of creating success ? fishing in the right pond, pre-selling or positioning the player in front of the correct audienceor travel programs that have successfully placed players on college rosters, will the recruiting coach build on that prior success look for more talent in that same org again?
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the "if you are good enough they will find you" approach of showcasing talent in front of large audiences and hoping someone will notice?
The vast majority are not 6'5" and throwing 95. If you are middle-of-the-pack "could-be-mid-major-D1", you really do need someone with credibility to (a) tell you what the right level is, and (b) to communicate that to the right college coaches.
At the D3 level it's a lot less about the travel coach, and more about the player going to showcases or school-based camps. They have unrestricted roster numbers, so in theory they can take as many players as want to go there. If you just show up and have what they want, it can work - but having a travel coach contact the schools doesn't hurt, especially if you need the coach's help with admissions.