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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP here. To follow up on this, how good are the club/travel teams that these coaches run? Do they stand on their own merits?[/quote]

Others spoke to soccer. I'll speak to baseball. Diamond Skills is a low quality program. They do well in mediocre tournaments against mediocre competition but cannot compete with the elite travel programs. And the only way they stay in business is because the SJC coach forces SJC players to play for Diamond Skills (chaching$$$). As I think someone else mentioned the Georgetown Prep coach is a co-opwner of Diamond Skills. He does not force his GP players to play for Diamond Skills. And except for one or two they do not. Given the choice they play for other travel programs. That speaks volumes. As others have said it is natural for a coach to show some favoritism to kids on the school team who also play for the coach's travel program. But GP kids almost always choose not to play for their coach's travel program. If that's not an indictment of Diamond Skills I don't know what is.[/quote]

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