AZ Sr. Fall Classic-Academic Game/Try-outs

DD,

I would imagine that any school with common sense will have a guy checking out that tryout. What do they have to lose. Many schools offer academic "merit scholarships" at GPAs from 3.0+ with commensurate test scores. I am betting that there are going to be other schools watching those tryouts. Your boy is a 2018, what's another $150 toward the effort at this point, right?

SanDiegoRealist posted:

DD,

I would imagine that any school with common sense will have a guy checking out that tryout. What do they have to lose. Many schools offer academic "merit scholarships" at GPAs from 3.0+ with commensurate test scores. I am betting that there are going to be other schools watching those tryouts. Your boy is a 2018, what's another $150 toward the effort at this point, right?

Exactly what I was looking for....Conformation to throw another hundo+ into the 'process'!

Thanks SDR, I knew I could count on your logic! lol

Not sure about which "other" colleges scout the tryout, but when my guy went there were a LOT of guys with clipboards there.  Just a hunch that there's a very broad representation of schools.  You could improve the odds if the schools your kid is interested in can explain that he'll be trying out.  Kids are on 'stage" all by themselves, even if it's only briefly.

My son had a lot of interest from D2 and D3 schools that were not high academic from the try-outs.  The rationale was that they could get him with lots of academic money and a smaller amount of baseball money because at their school his GPA was high enough to stack academic and athletic money

Agree with the prior posts.  There were tons of coaches scouting the tryouts and the actual academic game.  Some of the schools that reached out to my 2017 were not known as academic but really pushed the merit aid angle with him.  Two of them told him with his test scores he could get close to a full ride on merit money at their schools.  That wasn't happening at the HA schools.

That said, be sure your son actually meets the academic criteria required to be able to tryout.  And even then it is not automatic that he will be granted a tryout (if not, they refund your deposit).  My son only met two of the three criteria and was not offered a tryout at his primary position but was invited to tryout at his secondary position of pitcher.  Fortunately he did well enough at the tryout to be selected for the game, did well in his inning on the mound, and had lots of follow-up from coaches after the game.  Best $150 we ever spent!

AZ Fall Classic / Academic All-Star game try-out one of the most underrated events on the west coast. And the try-outs and game are STACKED w/ schools. One of the best recruiting events my son did.

If your son is a good student and wants to play in college...It's a no brainer

Appreciate all the opinions/input and push to drop ANOTHER $150...lol

Sure wish I had a dollar for every nickel I've spent on this 'process' so far!

Doing what we can to feed the baseball recruiting money machine, day by day!

StrainedOblique posted:

AZ Fall Classic / Academic All-Star game try-out one of the most underrated events on the west coast. And the try-outs and game are STACKED w/ schools. One of the best recruiting events my son did.

If your son is a good student and wants to play in college...It's a no brainer

Senior academic game or junior academic game? Or both?

I say both, but others may disagree.  It's really hard to tell who's still looking, on the high academic end, especially Ivies, that late into Senior year. I would think they'd have things wrapped up by then.  If you're going to prioritize, I'd go junior year for sure.  I know Ivies are at that one.

I agree, but if I had a 2018 who was not committed yet I'd give the Sr. Classic a long look.

Agree with Smokeminside that you should do both, as there was no better showcase event that we experienced.  And yes, the Ivies are still recruiting at the Senior Academic game.  Columbia followed up and watched my 2017 pitch later in the weekend.  My bank account sighed a huge sound of relief when they did not follow-up after his game performance, as I ran the numbers and it would have been $64K a year to go there had they wanted him.  No way that was going to happen!

Backstop22 posted:

Agree with Smokeminside that you should do both, as there was no better showcase event that we experienced.  And yes, the Ivies are still recruiting at the Senior Academic game.  Columbia followed up and watched my 2017 pitch later in the weekend.  My bank account sighed a huge sound of relief when they did not follow-up after his game performance, as I ran the numbers and it would have been $64K a year to go there had they wanted him.  No way that was going to happen!

Cheapskate ;-)

At the HF Camp the past November D3's and few Ivy's were still looking for players.  I was surprised with the Ivy's ... they must have had late fall out with a few offers (??)  This was three weeks after the AZ Fall Junior Classic.  So if a kid is not recruited yet, it's worth it.  One of the best run events "we" experienced.