found the guy who’s either shelling out $1000 a year for camps or running them. In high school there were showcases that I signed up for, never attended, and still received several letters from colleges telling me “how much they liked what they saw”. I’m just calling a spade a spade.

I played a lot of baseball for a long time from a low level around terrible coaches and people to a very high level around phenomenal coaches/people and the whole camp scene is 100% a way for coaches to line their pockets while telling gullible parents how great their kids are. If your kid is good enough then he won’t need a $250 showcase to get discovered and every single coach out there knows it. Again, just calling it how I see it and how I experienced it. For every 1 kid who gets “discovered by college coaches” there are 500 who are completely wasting their money and time and aren’t good enough to play college ball in any circumstance, but will still repeatedly be invited back to spend more money on more camps. You don’t smell something slightly scammish with that business model?

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Posted by bugafor6

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Posted on 7/10/18 at 2:50 pm to LSUgrad08112

95% of the kids at camps are just there hoping to get noticed and the coaches pay no attention to them, but if you think coaches don’t use camps to get closer and more personal looks at specific prospects that they invite there the you are not as knowledgeable as you claim.

Also, camps like perfect game is absolutely used to evaluate talent. They keep official records of the prospects 60 time, shuttle speed, position velo, exit velo, gpa and just about everything else you need to know. There’s a reason why those subs are free to scouts and coaches.

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