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My son just received an invite to the Northeast/Southeast Collegiate Showcase camp in St. Petersburg Florida. It looks like there will be quite a few schools in attendance that he is interested in. Does anyone know anything about this showcase? Do you think going to this instead of going to 3 of the individual schools camps would work out just as well. It would be less expensive to do it that way and there would be others schools that he would get a chance to be seen by.
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In my opinion (not saying I am correct) I would think that in general, going to individual camps at the school he is interested in would be better. The main reason is that at these showcases you get one coach from the school who is there. I believe that usually it is an assistant volunteer coach. When you go to a prospect camp at the school you usually get seen by all the coaches from that school including the recruiting and head coach.

That being said, my son did go to showball last year and is going again this summer.
My son did numerous Showcases Showball (son got one invite for a school visit out of this showcase), Baseball Factory , Blue-Grey (Major waste of time and money) and a couple of College camps. By far the best money spent (for my son) was going to a College camp. He went to two camps, both schools have made it to the Super Regionals and funning enough are playing each other. The one was a waste of money, it was a glorified babysitting summer camp. The other was run like a camp should be. The morning was for teaching and learning and the afternoon was the same with a game thrown in.

To make a long story short after the one camp both the head coach and the asst. commented to my son that they really liked him but they felt he was a year behind, being from the Northeast. They were honest with him in saying that if they signed him he would only get 10-15 AB's over his first 2 seasons and they would rather see him go play for 2 years and get a few hundred more AB's under his belt and if all goes well transfer to this school. No promises were made on this and my son knows he has to work hard for this to happen, which is exactly how he wants it. These coaches called many JUCOS on my sons behalf and he ended up signing with one of them.
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