Raj posted:joes87 posted:Please don't take this negatively, but if he is on a recognized travel team and has made it to his sophomore year without the travel program starting to provide guidance on how to approach college recruiting, you're probably not in the right program. A good program will have deep college contacts and work with the kids to get them the information and contacts they need to be successfully recruited. There is a huge difference in a good competitive travel program and a showcase program structured around college recruiting.The difference between a competitive travel program and a showcase program may well be the difference as you mentioned. The program that we are enrolled into does conduct a few showcase events every year. However what Is lacking is the information, guidance on how to proceed at-least till now.
A good travel program doesn't necessarily need to hold showcases, they need to be playing in the right events. My son's 17U summer he played with an organization that put him in front of ALOT of coaches. They played in the "Midwest Prospect League", which was essentially a group of 5 or 6 of the top programs in Ohio, KY & Indiana that would play a round robin type of event on 4 different weekends in the summer. There would be as many as 50-75 of the top college program in the eastern half of the country at these weekends. Those 4 weekends and 2 or 3 other well scouted tourneys got my son a ton of exposure. He had friends who played in some other travel organizations that told him they didn't see 10 coaches at their games all summer.