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Anonymous wrote:No experience with younger teams but the high school travel teams for BCC are a cluster. Run away and don’t look back. It’s not an org that promotes athletes’ mental health. It’s run by a narcissist and the coaches are in it for the money. Like so many sports, it’s a bunch of adults in it for their own pathetic glory.

You literally came on this forum to trash a part of the BCC program that wasn't even discussed. The discussion was about BCC Select and KOA BABL. Go complain elsewhere.

Nope. The years between elementary and high school are short. You can judge the quality of an organization by its leadership. Business 101. Parents should know as much as possible before they spend their money on a BUSINESS that does not prioritize their kid’s experience or mental health over adult egos.

Okay, please elaborate on your experiences with BCC high school travel teams if you would like people who are looking at Selects to understand more about the organization. It looks like BCC offers travel or house/rec league for high school so the middle option of selects goes away after middle school.

I don’t owe you details. I stand by what I wrote:

“It’s not an org that promotes athletes’ mental health. It’s run by a narcissist and the coaches are in it for the money. Like so many sports, it’s a bunch of adults in it for their own pathetic glory.”

I have been around youth sports for decades. I don’t like how BCC operates. They are not in it for youth athletes. Your values may be different than mine.

I was really turned off by BCC travel since they make kids be available all summer long even stating on their website that if you plan to go away to summer camp, you're not eligible. I wouldn't trade a sleepaway summer camp experience for all the baseball in the world for my child, so we joined another travel program that appreciates kids should be kids and have their summers off.

Anonymous wrote:Paid coaches do not always mean good coaches.

+1

Paid coaches do not always mean good coaches.

But adding on, there are in fact travel teams that are parent coached… not necessarily a bad thing either!

BCC Select is not a travel team since its kids on different Select teams playing against each other, (and they’re not traveling anywhere!) however unlike BCC Rec, kids do have to try out, so more competitive (and more $$).

Anonymous wrote:Players tryout every year and quality of experience varies depending on your coach (who is a parent) and how the college guys evaluating your player rate your kid. Some coaches are genuinely invested/knowledgeable and others are not. There are weird politics involved in the draft as well. We did not have a great experience and moved to BABL (koa) which was better in that the evaluation was done by professional coaches and then the teams had non-parent coaches. We moved on to koa’s travel program (Waves) from there.

Wait, people pay for travel ball and a kid's parent is the coach? Is this a thing?

Why are they allowed to use "BCC" ?

They clearly want to make it sound like this is a feeder to play on the team for BCC, the high school

BCC Select was a great stepping stone from BCc rec for our DS who went onto play BCC travel ball through high school. Great experience all the way through. Enjoyed one summer of BCC Select All Stars as well.

Wouldn’t trade a second of it and miss those days terribly.

Don’t blink - let them have fun at BCC Select in a moderately competitive environment before jumping into travel. The baseball is over in a heartbeat and it’s supposed to be fun.

100% dependent on the coach. In our years, there were two great coaching pairs, one mediocre pair, and one pair who never should have been coaching. The great pairs stacked their teams because they essentially gamed the draft and ended up winning almost all of their games. The lousy pair had a team that lost every game, and on top of that, drove a lot of kids to hate baseball. BCC refused to address the situation. So, if you make it onto a well-coached team that drafts well, you'll be good to go, but it is a gamble.

My son played 10u for KOA BABL, and personally, we had a really bad experience. The coach was not really helpful at all, and my son felt so much pressure that it really took the love of the game away from him. It did not feel like KOA had any interest in developing players. He took a year to play BCC rec and absolutely loved it and made BCC select for the fall. I am so much happier with BCC overall as an organization and my son has grown in confidence and skill by leaps and bounds with BCC.

if you are truly looking for the ones in it for the money, look at the organizations who only offer travel teams.

There are not many options for rec baseball anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:No experience with younger teams but the high school travel teams for BCC are a cluster. Run away and don’t look back. It’s not an org that promotes athletes’ mental health. It’s run by a narcissist and the coaches are in it for the money. Like so many sports, it’s a bunch of adults in it for their own pathetic glory.

You literally came on this forum to trash a part of the BCC program that wasn't even discussed. The discussion was about BCC Select and KOA BABL. Go complain elsewhere.

Nope. The years between elementary and high school are short. You can judge the quality of an organization by its leadership. Business 101. Parents should know as much as possible before they spend their money on a BUSINESS that does not prioritize their kid’s experience or mental health over adult egos.

Okay, please elaborate on your experiences with BCC high school travel teams if you would like people who are looking at Selects to understand more about the organization. It looks like BCC offers travel or house/rec league for high school so the middle option of selects goes away after middle school.

I don’t owe you details. I stand by what I wrote:

“It’s not an org that promotes athletes’ mental health. It’s run by a narcissist and the coaches are in it for the money. Like so many sports, it’s a bunch of adults in it for their own pathetic glory.”

I have been around youth sports for decades. I don’t like how BCC operates. They are not in it for youth athletes. Your values may be different than mine.

Yikes, let me rephrase--how does this approach or mindset play out in practical terms? Eg Coaches allowing kids to throw too many pitches, scheduling into expensive tournaments regardless of whether it's appropriate for the team, having the B team cover the expenses of the A team, putting kids on the A team because their parents paid for private coaching, running up the score, keeping on coaches who are abusive? Youth sports has gotten really gross, but there are a lot of ways that your comments could play out and I am genuinely interested in more context.

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Anonymous wrote:No experience with younger teams but the high school travel teams for BCC are a cluster. Run away and don’t look back. It’s not an org that promotes athletes’ mental health. It’s run by a narcissist and the coaches are in it for the money. Like so many sports, it’s a bunch of adults in it for their own pathetic glory.

You literally came on this forum to trash a part of the BCC program that wasn't even discussed. The discussion was about BCC Select and KOA BABL. Go complain elsewhere.

Nope. The years between elementary and high school are short. You can judge the quality of an organization by its leadership. Business 101. Parents should know as much as possible before they spend their money on a BUSINESS that does not prioritize their kid’s experience or mental health over adult egos.

Okay, please elaborate on your experiences with BCC high school travel teams if you would like people who are looking at Selects to understand more about the organization. It looks like BCC offers travel or house/rec league for high school so the middle option of selects goes away after middle school.

I don’t owe you details. I stand by what I wrote:

“It’s not an org that promotes athletes’ mental health. It’s run by a narcissist and the coaches are in it for the money. Like so many sports, it’s a bunch of adults in it for their own pathetic glory.”

I have been around youth sports for decades. I don’t like how BCC operates. They are not in it for youth athletes. Your values may be different than mine.

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Anonymous wrote:No experience with younger teams but the high school travel teams for BCC are a cluster. Run away and don’t look back. It’s not an org that promotes athletes’ mental health. It’s run by a narcissist and the coaches are in it for the money. Like so many sports, it’s a bunch of adults in it for their own pathetic glory.

You literally came on this forum to trash a part of the BCC program that wasn't even discussed. The discussion was about BCC Select and KOA BABL. Go complain elsewhere.

Nope. The years between elementary and high school are short. You can judge the quality of an organization by its leadership. Business 101. Parents should know as much as possible before they spend their money on a BUSINESS that does not prioritize their kid’s experience or mental health over adult egos.

Okay, please elaborate on your experiences with BCC high school travel teams if you would like people who are looking at Selects to understand more about the organization. It looks like BCC offers travel or house/rec league for high school so the middle option of selects goes away after middle school.