Francis7 posted:anotherparent posted:Have you asked the travel coach where he projects? I agree you can't expect him to do everything, but if it's possible to make it a partnership, that is ideal. Share your list with the coach, and ask what he thinks. A good travel coach won't recommend your son to schools unless he feels it's a good fit, otherwise he loses credibility. On our 16U team there were a lot of parents who were mad because they didn't feel that the coach was reaching out to the schools they wanted at tournaments - but, given where the kids were at that time, he was right.
Travel coach strongly feels that he's a D1 player. That said, the coach has preached to him that he should consider D2 or D3 if it's a better fit in terms of the school and program. The coach would be the first one to tell you that the #5 D3 team would probably be as good experience as playing for the #275 D1 team and that you shouldn't get the mindset that it has to be D1 or bust.
Unless baseball people are telling your son he’s a pro prospect the program that sets him up for “turning pro in something other than sports” Is more important than level played. That said, there are D1 level programs that fit. But I wouldn’t pass on a quality D3 education and baseball program just to claim I played D1 at Timbuktu State.