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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The PG and Prep Baseball tournaments are not what they once were.  Because of the portal and other NCAA changes colleges have moved their recruiting resources to the summer college leagues. For the vast majority of players you are better off going to specific college coach camps.  [/quote]

If you really know what schools you want to attend…the specific camps are good.  Headfirst and Showball showcase camps are good.

I disagree on the PG/PBR tournaments…the PG tourney in FL in early October is still loaded with coaches, as well as the PG tourney in Atlanta, the PG tourney in Hoover and the PBR tourney in LakePoint.  All three were loaded with coaches this past Summer

However, that’s kind of it.  The Prospect Select one in Boston is also a good tourney.[/quote]
Agree with all of the above. Certain PG/PBR tourneys are crawling with recruiters and it's easy to have a conversation with a college coach. Those two showcases are worth the hefty price tag. But even if a kid shines in those venues, they still want you to show up on campus for their camp. It's expensive, exhausting and time consuming.[/quote]

My kid was scouted at one of the Atlanta tournaments, invited to campus for individual tour/overnight and given an offer...no college-specific camp required.  This required travel coach having a strong relationship with this college and coordinating that my kid would pitch during the game this coach could attend.  It's really important your travel coach cares about winning only in the context of always trying to win even though the kid that that Harvard coach is scouting isn't nearly the ability of the kid the UNC coach is scouting.  If the Harvard coach can only attend a game against one of the top ranked national teams, so be it.

As in all of life, if your kid is strong enough and there are multiple offers (or the thinking there will be), then you can circumvent the process.[/quote]

Great, if the coach happens to see your kid on the main fields, or if they are already aware of the kid and drive for 90 minutes to see them at some random field.

And yes, best way to get on the radar is to have a connected travel coach weigh in.

For everyone else whose travel coach doesn’t have a relationship with the dream school, and they’re not a draft prospect, go to the camp. [/quote]

You have to understand, for every 100 college camp attendees...only 5 are being watched by the coaches.  This is by design as college camps are the #1 way for poorly paid assistants to augment their income.  They are sending spam emails all over the place trying to get every random kid to register.

You need to be on their radar before you set foot on campus.  It's very difficult to get "discovered" out of the blue at a prospect camp...especially a D1 prospect camp.[/quote]

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