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Reply to "What's a good offer? Should we hire a consultant?"

His travel coach/whoever runs the organization needs to start pulling their weight.

Once you hit a certain level, the goal is not to just go event to event and rack up wins and reps, it's to play for somebody who is hooked up with colleges your kid is interested in attending. If your travel coach is not capable of doing that - you are not playing for the right program. You are no longer paying for the tournaments, you are now paying for the ability to make a phone call.

Every organization should be having meetings with parents and players outlining goals, expectations and having an honest conversation about what level they can play at and what schools the kid would be interested in attending. If they're not doing that, you need to find a new program, that should be baseline.

Should you hire a consultant? No. You should sit down with the org and say where do you think I can play (level, conference, etc) and compare it to where the kid wants to go (size, location, conf) and whatever overlaps is schools you should be targeting. If they are not going to pick up a phone and call coaches at schools you're interested in and say hey Johnny is interested in your school, he already has offers then they are useless.

So no to an advisor/consultant. Yes to a new travel org if the current org can't do what you pay them to do. I don't know the CA landscape like others but if your kid is good enough for an offer he's good enough to get with any of the many legitimate travel orgs in your area.

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