@CollegebaseballInsights posted:I would state that it depends on what team they were planning to place your son. What school's did they connect on his behalf. You making those contacts to determine if there was real interest.
Again, my son played with them for 3 years, their college placement program was all talk, they didn't have what we might call a 7 step program.
Secondly, they didn't really make connections or guide players to mid majors, d2, etc as for they didn't have the bandwidth.
Note, a travel team's recruiting coordinator is a very important job, but the problem was it wasn't full-time.
That person had to make his money via lessons, coaching, etc.
IMHO, it has gotten better, but to what extent, that is for the newbies to articulate.
Many programs are using social networking tools to make those connections.
NCSA
Field-Level
Sportsforce
Sportthread
or HS Baseball Website
to understand where some of the trap doors might be.
That was our sense. If you were committed then Arsenal would promote that as if they made it happen. And there would be promises of "looks" and "exposure." And JC has everyone on his phone. But, the reality is that there was no plan or program for recruiting. You are going to have to do that on your own. I have since seen other organizations who have a plan, programs, software, contacts, and whose primary directive is getting kids recruited. Arsenal is no where near that now.
