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Not bitter at all, you made your choice and did what you did and we made ours. It could not have worked out better for us. Despite all of your infinite baseball wisdom when he was at the age of 12 and telling him he will never make it as a catcher, the kid managed to do alright and made it as a catcher and has a scholarship to play college ball at a very good division II school. Never have given you in particular a second thought it was 5 years ago.
Just dont understand all your bush league banter when you seem to play in a lot of Premiere local tourneys. Why down it and the league just because the Gators group is not listed in it.
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LOL, not at all. We compete just fine against, "ALL" of the so called Premier teams.
I just found your second comment to the guy that started this post to be snide and petty against a group of teams (Premiere)who you seem to like to schedule your organization to play. I simply called you out on it. Had nothing to do with bitterness. Just thought your comment was bush league.
As far as Esteban German, cant remeber what that Ranger player's name is that you use to talk about playing with the your Gators organization in the distant past, thought it was German guess I got the name wrong. Maybe it was Duran, I dont know.
Further, I simply stated that you arent doing anything different than the rest of these businesses. You all love to list all of the players that have played for your groups at one point and time so that those players can be listed as organizational success stories, even if the players only might have played a half season with them or one tourney. You and all of them all do it. It is one of those selling points that all the organizations like to tout.
As far as your costs go, I am sure your not doing your stuff for free and I imagine that your fees are not far off from some of these other groups. Not saying you are higher or the same or even less, but I doubt there is big difference. I really dont care what you charge, people are going to pay whatever they think it is worth to be with the organization they have chosen whether it be yours or someone within Premiere.
The list this guy threw up came right off the Premier website and I think there is no doubt a lot of good talent has played in the Premiere league and will continue to play in the Premiere league. Is it the only talent out there, I as well as you and the rest of these people on here know it is not. To be honest, I really did not even care just did not like your "so called comment" you threw out there so I said something.
Bush league, huh? Once again, let me straighten out your facts. I never told your son at age 12, that he would not make it as a catcher. He was age 14, when I told John Davis that he should play on his AA team, instead of the AAA team. It was simple reasoning, I considered the other two catchers, better. In fact I still do
We have been scheduling our teams, against the teams that you reference, long before they felt the need to call themselves Premiere.
The player you tried to reference, is German Duran.
As I stated, we never list a guest player as an alum. Players listed, have played at least a full season, most many seasons, with our program. So no, we don't list any player that may have worn our uniform. If you think so, please point him out to me, so that I can respond.
Costs, our high school players, generally pay around $1200 for a Summer season. This is basically a 55-60 game schedule. We are a 501(c)(3) Corporation. So it is illegal for us, to stuff money in our pockets. I'm not absolutly sure what the Premiere teams charge. But, from what I have taken from feedback from this site, most are in the $1700-$2500 range. So your basically spending $2000-$5000 more for a high school career, playing for one of those teams. I might add, most play considerably less games than we do. Our Fall fee is around $450, for 25-30 games. Also, considerably less.
From Perfect Game:
All that said, IMO, the top two teams in Texas this past year were the Houston Banditos and the Texas Sun Devils.
Correct me if I'm wrong
Neither of these teams, feel the need to call themselves Premiere.
