NorCal East National Team Filling up fast!

just curious, are you from california? do you have the same coaching philosophy? if not why be affiliated?
can you tell us a little bit about your program?

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Originally posted by 20dad:
just curious, are you from california? do you have the same coaching philosophy? if not why be affiliated?
can you tell us a little bit about your program?

20dad
We are affiliated because our association with the NorCal program gives us an outstanding resource for:
1. Tournament qualification
2. College recruitment contacts
3. Pro Scout resources
4. We have a director and principle from the NorCal program to help us develope our program jumping the learning curve by many years.

Sorry Guys,

I incorrectly posted the reply e-mail. Please foward player profiles and inquiries to
this e-mail address norcaleast2011@live.com

Thanks,
CenPAPete

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Originally posted by 20dad:
just curious, are you from california? do you have the same coaching philosophy? if not why be affiliated?
can you tell us a little bit about your program?

More info can be found at our regular tournament team website www.curvejuniors.com

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Originally posted by CenPAPete:

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Originally posted by 20dad:
just curious, are you from california? do you have the same coaching philosophy? if not why be affiliated?
can you tell us a little bit about your program?

20dad
We are affiliated because our association with the NorCal program gives us an outstanding resource for:
1. Tournament qualification
2. College recruitment contacts
3. Pro Scout resources
4. We have a director and principle from the NorCal program to help us develope our program jumping the learning curve by many years.

The topic looked interesting, but I am sorry but I have to ask the questions.

Why would you need to be associated with a program that is across the country that draws from a totally different base of players and that has a very dominating reputation?

Just having the name, Norcal will not provide you with the resources that will make your program successful in the arena that they play in, it also will not draw the players of the same caliber in the numbers they do, nor will it sustain the interest of the coaches and scouts unless you do so.

From your web site, it looks like you have never played in an event south of Virginia, I noticed that you are planning to play with the big boys in California in front of west coast colleges and scouts, that will be a interesting eye opener for your program, I remember hearing even East Cobb did not do well when they traveled to the west coast a couple of years ago.

It is nice to dream, but to try to capitalize on players joining your organization with an organization’s name if you can’t produce the same product does not look right for the players and families. JMO

Why would a player want to travel once a month to practice with your team when they can play for a more local team and practice multiple times per week with the team? What do you have to offer over Teel's, Cust's, Tri-State, All-Star and Big League 30?

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Originally posted by 4theloveofthegame:

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Originally posted by CenPAPete:

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Originally posted by 20dad:
just curious, are you from california? do you have the same coaching philosophy? if not why be affiliated?
can you tell us a little bit about your program?

20dad
We are affiliated because our association with the NorCal program gives us an outstanding resource for:
1. Tournament qualification
2. College recruitment contacts
3. Pro Scout resources
4. We have a director and principle from the NorCal program to help us develope our program jumping the learning curve by many years.

The topic looked interesting, but I am sorry but I have to ask the questions.

Why would you need to be associated with a program that is across the country that draws from a totally different base of players and that has a very dominating reputation?

Just having the name, Norcal will not provide you with the resources that will make your program successful in the arena that they play in, it also will not draw the players of the same caliber in the numbers they do, nor will it sustain the interest of the coaches and scouts unless you do so.

From your web site, it looks like you have never played in an event south of Virginia, I noticed that you are planning to play with the big boys in California in front of west coast colleges and scouts, that will be a interesting eye opener for your program, I remember hearing even East Cobb did not do well when they traveled to the west coast a couple of years ago.

It is nice to dream, but to try to capitalize on players joining your organization with an organization’s name if you can’t produce the same product does not look right for the players and families. JMO

4theloveofthegame

All very fair questions, We currently have a player that has had the privledge of playing for the NorCal 14U team this past summer. we have a head coach that has traveled to Arizona, Georgia to see first hand what caliber of play this organization has. He believes and we are confident in his opinion that we can compete if we supplement our current top level talent with more upper level East Coast talent.

Members of the NorCal organization have visited our team and spoken with our players about what it will take to be competitive. Lambs to the slaughter, I doubt it, who would that benefit? It certainly would not benefit NorCal to have an affiliated team that was not competitive. An eye opener, I am sure it will be.
We are keeping our Curve Juniors program and teams in tact, we are just looking to broaden some of our better players horizons and give them the benefit of as much exposure as possible.
Both the NorCal representative and our coach have nothing more in mind then to give those players we know the best opportunity to succeed and attain their baseball goals and dreams, nothing more.
Nothing good ever comes from being afraid to step out of your comfort zone.

We have and relay no pretense that BAMB! we will be a team with the strength and success that the East Cobb's and NorCal's of the baseball world have but we need to start or at least not be afraid to start somewhere and having a helping hand directly from one of the best programs in the country cannot be a bad place to start.

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Originally posted by RJM:
Why would a player want to travel once a month to practice with your team when they can play for a more local team and practice multiple times per week with the team?

RJM

Our intent is that they can do both. We have no intention of trying to pull players away from there local programs. We just want to give those players that want and deserve this type of opportunity the chance to grab it.

for the kids to develop and perform at a high level they need to have some pretty good instruction. if you are going to east cobb for the 1st time, even at the 16u level, you will be in for a surprise at the level of competition.

please dont take this the wrong way, but the larger programs who have a number of DI recruits have very good baseball resumes, usually including coaches that have some pro backgrounds.

does your group have that.... if not i know there are a couple of former curve players who live now in Altoona and would be good for your group... former lhp mike connolly being one of them... you can call Parney at 800 go curve for any others and good luck.

catchaprospect, Thanks for the reply, we know this is a big undertaking and are excited about the challenge.
Our coaches know Parney well and he and former pro players have met with some of our players.

Our coaching staff has some former D1 players on it and also has two current pro scouts involved with the program.

We have some players that are participating on the curve juniors team www.curvejuniors.com and the NorCal east team. Any info from someone who has experienced the kind of level of play that we hope to attain is allways welcome and much appreciated

Just to shed some light on this.This is my sons first year to play for this team and has played on a high level team in the past going to the big tournaments Fla, Tenn, just to name a few. I could not agree more about the coaching because we were out coached at times not out played. I am not saying he had terrible coaches just I agree that its a different world in those tournaments.

I do believe the coaching is there for this team. The main goal here if I am correct is to get players exposure so they can move onto the next level. Winning is great don't get me wrong and a good way to get noticed but not the only way.

Where exactly in central PA?

tcw6

Your question of where exactly in central pa is that regarding the team?
If so the team is based out of Altoona Pa.
Until the norcaleastbaseball.org website is set up you can contact the coaches thru the curvejuniors.com website. Or send me a PM and I will be glad to answer any questions you might have.