I just breezed through this forum and I would like to point out a couple of things. Docs situation is much different than ours. We come from southern Ontario and Doc is in westen Ontario. His city is a little out of the way. This province is huge and the area around Toronto has probably one of the greatest populations of high caliber ball players in the country. My son had a great ball park to play in and there are so many elite teams. Approx 20 or more in a 100 mile radius around Toronto.
We had some of the best coaching you could find anywfere. We travelled thoughout the US playing top teams.
OSAP does give loans and grants to US college bound students. They give you an amount based on need and you get what you would get if you stayed in Ontario. On their website you can find out if the school is approved. If it isn't the school can apply to be approved. Miami Dade and Pesacola are on the list as are 100s of others. Indian Hills for example is not but probably could get approved. You can apply for up to 5 schools at one time and you have to let OSAP know which one you chose.
The Intercounty has a grid system and you are the property of the team in that grid you live in unless you get released. No of these teams practice. Rick Jonston runs the Branford Red Sox and all the workouts he holds are at his facility "the Baseball Zone. These teams pay you for direct expebses incurred to play on the team otherwise the college players would loose eligibility. The Canadian pro league's head pitching coach was Ron Davis former ML reliever with the NY Yankees. If you had played for them you would have been ineligible to play NCAA. My son was spotted by Ron and was invited to throw bull pen. If my son had stepped on the field during a game he would have been ineligible and that almost became a problem. Had to swear he never was on the field during a game day. I am not sure if NAIA has a similar rule.
Deborha I don't meen to rain on your parade but There is no Team Ontario but only Team Ontario Inc. Quite a different animal. There is however the Ontario Youth Team which represents the province. This is a sore point with me and it is misleading to those who don't know any better. The Minnesota scout is most likely Jim Ridley the former head pitching scout for the Blue Jays and he is a great guy to teach mechanics to your son. One final thing is if your financial situation is so bad why are you paying the fees charged by Team Ontario Inc and spending $1200 to go to Florida. I have a problem when a team misrepresents itself as representing the provice. You will notice things are changing and people are figuring this out. That team is no longer a power house as it was a few years ago. They still have a lot of Amercans fooled. Having said that I will say that they still have great contacts at the college level and for Team Canada. The cost of that team has to be $7000. per year and there off season/fall is almost non existant.
Sorry to be so blunt but lets not mislead people.