My son is doing a fair number of high profile events this summer both on his own and with his Club Team, including:
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Travel where the college coaches on his vetted list will be. By vetted, I mean that meaningful third parties (e.g., scouts, counselors, et.al.) have made educated "guesses" that your son could be admitted to a school and could make that school's baseball roster.
Taking a scattershot approach to college baseball will take a lot of time and money and may not put a player in front of the "right" coaches/schools. And the college level is really first and foremost about school. The baseball can be gone at any time.
If your goal and talent level is appropriate for national level teams, I think you got it covered.
Your son may want to verify that his target schools will be in attendance or that they have a need at your son's position. With that much travel and $$, I'd want to make sure (or at least understand cost/reward). JMO. Good luck.
Our approach to prospect or frankly any camps so far has been to only attend those that either my son or his travel coach has had some voice to voice interest expressed by the coaching staff after they have seen him pitch in a game.
Unless you are a truly elite level player my thinking is that showing up cold at a prospect camp a time zone away is not likely to be very fruitful.
In our case living literally as far west as you can get in the US any trip is a long one. decided that the most "bang for the buck" is a 2 week trip to California for headfirst and Stanford camps in June. 11 of the 17 schools my son is interested in will be there, if things work out then a east coast trip will be in our future to go to school specific camps.
price of living in paradise i suppose.
I would try to get a Area Code tryout invite, costs nothing.
I would consider swapping:
Team One Under Armour 18U Southwest Championship, July 31- August 4, LA
Triple Crown Fall Nationals, Las Vegas, NV Sept 5-7
With Arizona Fall Classic, and PG National Championships in Ariz.
Never been a big fan of Under Armour and don't know about the Triple Crown event.
Nate Trosky does bay area events that you should check out, he is a class act.
I would try to get a Area Code tryout invite, costs nothing.
I would consider swapping:
Team One Under Armour 18U Southwest Championship, July 31- August 4, LA
Triple Crown Fall Nationals, Las Vegas, NV Sept 5-7
With Arizona Fall Classic, and PG National Championships in Ariz.
Never been a big fan of Under Armour and don't know about the Triple Crown event.
Nate Trosky does bay area events that you should check out, he is a class act.
Why not a fan of Under Armour? Never done one of their events -- so I don't have a view.
The Under Armour and Triple Crown events are coach's choices for the kids "local" travel team -- this a team he plays in to keep him fresh, get him reps, not really a showcase type team -- though they try to end the summer with a showcase type event -- thus the Under Armour event. They mostly play locally. For the PG/WWBA he is playing with a scout team. Will do some Trosky events - college game days, etc -- as well perhaps. But he is trying to leave room for college specific prospect camps of a few targeted places. BUSY summer.
I would try to get a Area Code tryout invite, costs nothing.
I would consider swapping:
Team One Under Armour 18U Southwest Championship, July 31- August 4, LA
Triple Crown Fall Nationals, Las Vegas, NV Sept 5-7
With Arizona Fall Classic, and PG National Championships in Ariz.
Never been a big fan of Under Armour and don't know about the Triple Crown event.
Nate Trosky does bay area events that you should check out, he is a class act.
Why not a fan of Under Armour? Never done one of their events -- so I don't have a view.
The Under Armour and Triple Crown events are coach's choices for the kids "local" travel team -- this a team he plays in to keep him fresh, get him reps, not really a showcase type team -- though they try to end the summer with a showcase type event -- thus the Under Armour event. They mostly play locally. For the PG/WWBA he is playing with a scout team. Will do some Trosky events - college game days, etc -- as well perhaps. But he is trying to leave room for college specific prospect camps of a few targeted places. BUSY summer.
Sluggerdad,
Your initial question was if your list would provide adequate national exposure. BOF's replacement suggestions are dead on if that is the objective. I think you would get far more of the desired eyeballs at those events.
I would try to get a Area Code tryout invite, costs nothing.
I would consider swapping:
Team One Under Armour 18U Southwest Championship, July 31- August 4, LA
Triple Crown Fall Nationals, Las Vegas, NV Sept 5-7
With Arizona Fall Classic, and PG National Championships in Ariz.
Never been a big fan of Under Armour and don't know about the Triple Crown event.
Nate Trosky does bay area events that you should check out, he is a class act.
Why not a fan of Under Armour? Never done one of their events -- so I don't have a view.
The Under Armour and Triple Crown events are coach's choices for the kids "local" travel team -- this a team he plays in to keep him fresh, get him reps, not really a showcase type team -- though they try to end the summer with a showcase type event -- thus the Under Armour event. They mostly play locally. For the PG/WWBA he is playing with a scout team. Will do some Trosky events - college game days, etc -- as well perhaps. But he is trying to leave room for college specific prospect camps of a few targeted places. BUSY summer.
Sluggerdad,
Your initial question was if your list would provide adequate national exposure. BOF's replacement suggestions are dead on if that is the objective. I think you would get far more of the desired eyeballs at those events.
okay. Let's see we can do about that. (The coach of the local travel team is a good baseball guy, but not much experience getting guys to the big stage. Not sure if it's too late for this team to get an invitation to the PG National Championship. But I will suggest it to him -- tell him guys in the know says he would showcase his players there much, much better.)
So is Team One/Under Armour really a sort of second fiddle organization to PG in terms of getting guys noticed? That seems to be one implication I am picking up. Or am I reading that wrong?
