With parents wanting to "inform" their son's high school coaches about their son, what other things should parents not do and why?
Here is an example of something from a highly scouted travel program, started laughing when I was reading it:
ARIZONA FALL CLASSICS A SUCCESS
The Arizona Fall Classic is always the highlight of our fall program. NorCal sent a team of unsigned-seniors as well as a team of junior prospects to the AZ Senior Fall Classic the weekend of October 12-14. The format of the Senior and Junior Classic is one that accents showcasing players and de-emphasizes winning games. This allows coaches to freely substitute players in and out.
NorCal Baseball spear-headed this format change along with tournament director Ted Heid (a good friend of NorCal Baseball). We felt that this tournament was designed for the pro scouts and college coaches to get the best looks at the talents of the players. Taking out the keeping of score made it easy for the coaches to then do the proper thing and showcase their players without worrying about the winning. In the end, the winners are the players.
The senior group did an outstanding job (4-0 unofficial record) and many of those players helped themselves in the college recruiting process with good performances. The junior squad did equally as well as many of the players put themselves on the recruiting map with their performances.
The sophomores participated in the Junior Classic the weekend of October 19-21. They got to play in five games. The highlight of the weekend was playing a game at ASU’s Packard Stadium against the Dodger scout team. The sophomore squad accorded themselves extremely well and several of the players showed that they are among the top players in the country.
It’s important to note that these tournaments are highly-recruited. We got a lot of feedback from the coaches, scouts, and tournament director. We want to make sure we take positive steps so that NorCal Baseball is seen in a favorable light. The following action steps will take care of that.
1. Parents do not belong in the seated area behind the backstop with the college coaches and pro scouts. Let the professionals do their work and be able to talk freely. Many of you own radar guns. These types of events are not the appropriate time for you to use them. You will be seen as a meddling parent and an unwanted “package deal”.
2. Players need to be prepared with their eating and drinking needs. We expect the players to have their own coolers for ice, water, power bars, etc. Dugouts are off-limits to parents unless they are requested by the coaching staff. We are trying to prepare our players to play at the next level. That means letting them take responsibility for themselves. STAY AWAY!
3. Parents should be a spectator at games. They have no business talking to coaches, scouts or tournament directors at these events unless spoken to. This is a bad reflection on our program when we have parents not staying within the guidelines and a bad reflection on you.
Trust us on these things. We have done this a long time and these guidelines are set up for all of our players to be successful and seen on a positive light.
NorCal Baseball
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