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I agree with Floridafan and fenwaysouth regarding costs of this program. Our son learned alot and it has helped him. The costs and benefits are for each parent to decide. The facilities are state of the art and the costs associated with all their programs require an overhead that is passed on to us. They have full time staff in all sports they offer. It cannot be compared to Doyle, I have never been to Doyle and I am sure it is a sound program but that is all they do and I wish we would have tried that but it's our son's last year in high school and he has already been recruited to play baseball with Trinity University in San Antonio TX. A DIV 3 program. 

 

My advice for parents and athletes is:

 

Is your son truly serious going to the next level and i don't mean the pros (not just yet) but college. If he is and he lives and breathes baseball then IMG or Doyle is the way to go to get valuable insight and lessons to help them set themselves apart from the rest of the players. 

 

Our son had many conversations with the coaches that were pro players at one time and the advice that he was given has helped him to achieve better performance. In addition the classes outside of the baseball practices helped him to understand all aspects of the game. 

 

I do want to say that we did see more than a few students that were not baseball players but parents who had the financial resoruces to send them, "hoping" they would be baseball players. You know the rich kid that really sucks but dad pays his way to be the starter kinda thing. I don't mean any disrespect but this is what I saw each time. Not alot mind you but always a few kids. 

 

I often tell my son how fortunate he is that he can attend these camps and training compared to my days of just figuring it out on our own. He is 18 and he loves the game. He will start this fall at Trinity and hopefully succeed and if not it was a nice ride while it lasted. 

 

Just remember that whatever you do with your kids: "enjoy the moment, relish the time spent, it goes way to fast"

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