Recruiting through mass emails

My son received a letter stating they (some college) saw him at a specific showcase, we’re interested and would like him to attend one of their camps. My son was signed up for the showcase but did not attend. The school obviously purchased the signed up attendee list.

Limestone has about 70 players on every team.  I think someone said their enrollment is 80% athletes.  People around here think it is a big deal to get an invite to one of their camps.  I'm like keep paying those salaries.

Son got them until this year about showcases, wanting him to do this or that.  He is a senior in college this year.

My son got a ton of mass emails from one particular school, they stood out for being written to seem particularly personal, but he had no interest in the school so we never followed up. I admired their tech skills in crafting those emails, though.

Just looked them up - they only have 35 on their team, so they were not doing it for big numbers.

Mind you, mine also graduated HS in 2019, and I today got an email from a baseball company that says "If you are receiving this email you have either attended a xx event in the past or are scheduled to attend a xx event in 2023" - nope!

First thing I look for is an unsubscribe at the bottom of the message. If there is, I know it is a mass email. If there isn't, I go into the body of the message and determine the details from there. There are some schools we get messages from a few times a month and they are for sure form letters.

I get a lot of this (including the email from Limestone University).  These (mass emails) is what led me to develop a perception that prospect camps/showcases at colleges as just a money maker unless you are specifically invited by the coach, or my son's travel coach told him to go that that specific camp.  There is a different thread here where someone said that going to college camps worked the best for them and I replied that I avoided those bec I thought they are just money makers.

Man, I wish my kid had heard from Limestone....

You need to send emails to more schools than just Massachusetts. 🤣