Agree with Iowamom. When my son was 15 we started taking him on campus tours. Spent a lot of time on Illinois’ campus, and Iowa’s. Both beautiful campuses. Did we ever think he could get recruited by those schools? Not really, but we wanted him to get some perspective on what college campuses are like. Took him to JUCO schools, D3’s, D2’s, etc
By the time he was ready to commit, he had visited a few dozen colleges as a prospective student, and had gone on 3 official visits as an athlete, and had an idea of what he liked and didn’t.
College camps are really not part of the recruiting experience for a vast majority of players. We did take our son to one camp, as a fun day of extra Baseball and as partially a family vacation.
It was at Southeast Missouri. Their coach had seen our son play in a 15U tournament and invited him. Did we really think they would offer him? Nope. We did our homework and saw that a vast majority of their corner guys were JUCO transfers. But we looked at it as a fun road trip, and figured if our kid went JUCO it would give him some perspective.
Our kid had a blast at the camp. We really enjoyed seeing the historical sites around Cape Girardeau, and had a fun night on the Mississippi River. Then on the way back we had another really fun day exploring St Louis
so it was fun and worthwhile in terms of creating childhood memories and a great family vacation. Part of our kids recruiting journey? Not really.