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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh lord… I wish I had seen this thread 3 years ago. You can get lucky with a good coach but once you deal with the owners/ organization, any sensible person would run. All of these stories are very true, but I will add that some coaches are decent. My older son was being given the typical run around for years and we decided to jump on an opportunity for him to play up on a less serious team with friends. We declined a primetime offer and then they retaliated against my younger son who is 9. His team was pretty terrible and only won three games. He was one of the best players on the team. I am saying that objectively. He is a great player. He has his problems but he can play sport ball. He even won the game ball after throwing an incredible 75 pitches and winning one of only three games that they won all season. He was cut 4 days later and placed on a newly formed B team (created to pay bills on old debts). It was certainly retaliation for us declining the older child’s offer. They def didn’t want my older son on the team but I heard lots of jokes and chatter about us paying the bills for Cooperstown. The team expected us to tap our wealthy family to foot the bill for their vacation. They even planned to “fundraise” for a team parent house and when I said, I don't plan on staying at an Airbnb with all the other parents they had to cancel the idea and one parent joked, “but how are we going to get your family to pay for our house then?” So if there was animosity about us leaving, it was entirely based on fundraising efforts. We declined the B team offer for my younger child and I sent an email to the owner explaining why. He wanted a phone call with me to dress me down and explain how travel baseball works. I offered him a call with my husband. He told my husband that we need to understand when making decisions for our children that they will remember our name and that they “hold a grudge”. They threatened us over a choice we made for our 9 year old! Just to warn anyone who is currently on a primetime team, you’ll have to move away to get out of that situation, otherwise they will hold a grudge. Walk away very very slowly because even if they don’t play your kid, they want your money and will hold a grudge if you take it away. [/quote]
The biggest issue is that they have coaches at both Yorktown and O’Connell… So if your kid wants to play there, you have to “play the game” with primetime. [/quote]

None of the 2025 O'Connell commits played for Primetime (at least as their most recent team)...maybe it's more important at Yorktown.[/quote]

The new O'Connell coach is a PT coach....[/quote]

Why did the former O’Connell coach get fired?[/quote]

I love to know this too because our kids have taken a bunch of camps with him and he is a super nice guy. He’s also now partnering with Kurt over at ignite to run a bunch of clinics. My kids have always loved his camps. The “story“ Our team heard is that some O’Connell player got severely injured in the weight room and it was due to poor supervision/practices and someone needed to take the fall. But that doesn’t seem to add up to me.  [/quote]
We have also done the camps in the past and liked him. I don’t like the people from ignite. [/quote]

Kurt knows his stuff. The rest of the crew… kind of a mixed (and ever-changing) bag. I was not at all surprised to see someone on Primetime’s staff who used to be at Ignite.

Note to baseball facility managers and prospective managers: I don’t care if a coach once had half a cup of instant coffee in a MLB-adjacent organization. I don’t care if a coach once played (RF, and only when they were winning) at a college that is classified as D1 solely by the grace of God and the scheming of the athletic department.

I care about whether you have good communication skills, even better organizational skills, an excellent eye for mechanics, and the ability to distill your advice into actionable, achievable directions. If they can teach and grow players, they could have spent the last year managing their Brownie troop’s t-ball badge for all I care.

I do not want to pay through the nose in both time and money to hear nothing at BP but “Quick bat. Think right field.” [/quote]

Cool, but they don't care what you think as a parent. VERY few kids have a choice of where they play. Top 1-2 on each team. They just want your $$$[/quote]

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