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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I can tell you that the Diamondskills baseball team will just quit in the middle of tournaments and go home.  Gibbs plays the tournaments like scrimmages and when all his pitchers get their 30 to 40 pitches in, he just goes home.  Imagine the cost to all the families and they don't even get a chance to compete.  He also doesn't show up for the tournaments so he never gets a chance to talk to scouts.[/quote]

Dumb question, but why are the Diamond Skills teams bad? I would think that the program would still attract talented players. This thread is very surprising to me as an outsider, although it sounds like common knowledge. I had previously heard such great things about St. John's baseball team.[/quote]

Well, I don't think it has anything to do with Diamond Skills attracting good players.  There are definitely some very fine ballplayers at SJC, and I'd like to think our son is one of them.  We were frustrated because our son got to SJC expecting to go to one of the big tournaments that previous freshman classes went to (where college coaches/scouts are).  They didn't send a team his freshman year, and he was told he wasn't allowed to go play for another travel team.  So he missed an opportunity.  As irony would have it, they did send teams the year before my son's class and the year after my son's class. "Coincidentally" the coach's nephews played on those two teams.  They also invited guest players (players from outside SJC/Diamond Skills) for the teams sent to those events.

I found that to be completely unfair to our son.  If you're not going to let our son go play at a national event, at least have some loyalty to the kids in your program to bring them instead of guest players.[/quote]

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