Out of State Interest?

There are so many possibilities from mass-mailing from a list to genuine interest.

Read the other thread I started in this forum ("Nope, its not too late") to read a true story about a senior player on my son's HS team getting referred, then scouted, then offered by a school 3,000 miles away...just in the last 2 weeks.

It happens. But there are a lot of different reasons that it could in any given case.

Hi BBdad:

We have had a lot of these from different schools aa a result of berecruited and completing online College questionaires.

As a result, we get about 5 form emails about team progress and invites to camps. As has been said here before, the wording of these emails, can really lead one to believe that they are actually personal emails.

About a dozen communications have been real personally-written invites to a prospect camp. In those cases, we have called the coaches back to get a sense of whether there's any real need to go at this time (freshman).

I get the sense that there are some who would have you get on a plane to go to their one-day prospect camp (come to our $195 prospect camp and spend $2000 in the process of doing so). In a number of cases it's a younger assistant who is responsible for running the camps - their job is to put numbers on the field for the camp.

If you look at some of the rosters, teams tend to take guys from all over. They probably see you through PG or beRecruited, etc. Programs like Ohio State etc., probably do a lot to bring in guys from Texas(big fish/small pond type of stuff).

In the end though, they are doing it - BECAUSE IT WORKS!

Although there are a lot of college baseball programs in Texas, there are also a ton of great players in the State. Our 2011 grad committed to a D1 in South Carolina (Winthrop University) who saw him play at a PG event in Jupiter, FL in October. He got most of his exposure through his travel team (Dallas Patriots 18U) playing in PG and AABC events around the country.

There are many way ways a college can find a guy. We have have quite a few smaller D1 colleges coming out to the West. We have two players that are freshman at Stony Brook. They flew out and saw them play here and it went from there. We have a player who committed to Long Island U a few weeks ago. They were at the Az. and in SoCal in the Summer/Fall. We developed a relationship with them. The player did his work finding a school a that could work for him. He sent video and coach did his homework. The offer was made and the kid committed. I can't stress enough that each family needs to so their work in the process. We tell guys to take an hour one day out of the week and talk with their parents who have they contacted and so forth. I had a parent explain it this way...How hard would you work for a $100,000. The answer is work hard. Well, then put the work in to find and do the things needed to possible find a school.