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re: Travel Ball Mecca
Posted on 7/5/23 at 5:43 pm to MikeAV8s
Posted on 7/5/23 at 5:43 pm to MikeAV8s
Travel ball is so watered down now. I wouldn't let my kid play till puberty hits. I started travel ball at 13 because of the competition. It was about getting the best players from your area together and playing the best players from other areas in order to get better and develop. Playing against the best players was fun. My parents had a blast. But little league was far and away the most fun my parents had being a parent.
This post was edited on 7/6/23 at 5:06 am
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Posted on 7/5/23 at 5:47 pm to tigerfoot
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All depends on where you live. If you live in a nice, upscale, suburban area with a 4000 student high school, well every single thing they can do in HS is extremely competitive.
while we're posting this, Louisiana lost another high school to consolidation earlier this week
instead of four baseball teams in Winn Parish, now we have three. Maybe one day we'll have one. And it's been happening all over the state for 30 years now.
imagine if that 4000 student high school became 10 400 student schools...
This post was edited on 7/5/23 at 5:50 pm
Posted on 7/5/23 at 5:58 pm to chalmetteowl
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who the hell is giving NIL to the kicker
Every SEC team has base NIL (for scholarships football players) out of each’s collective…That base deal is outside of anything else they can help you to get. Lots of modern kickers are reliable…unlike the ones LSU has and has offered.
This post was edited on 7/5/23 at 6:05 pm
Posted on 7/5/23 at 6:06 pm to Frogonmytoe
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Member since Jun 2023
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1st post about travel bawll, welcome brother.
Posted on 7/5/23 at 6:12 pm to Gaston
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Lots of modern kickers are reliable…unlike the ones LSU has and has offered.
we just had Cade York
you thinking every kid is just gonna get 47k... LSU will never give a HS kicker that when the transfer portal exists and they can get a G5 or lower P5 kid that who has actually done it on TV
Posted on 7/5/23 at 6:13 pm to thejuiceisloose
Lol. Thank you.Been a lurker for years. Finally signed up. Hopefully I don't get sucked into the abyss of bullshite.
Posted on 7/5/23 at 6:16 pm to lsu777
No doubt if there is a travel ball thread you can bet your sweet arse lsu777 will be in it.
Posted on 7/5/23 at 6:17 pm to chalmetteowl
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had
Well no shite.
LSU’s base was $25k+ (whatever it is now), and they have absolutely offered Aeron, who will be a HS senior this year, from Shreveport that. We’ll see about reliability.
Older kickers doesn’t equal better kickers…it’s all a percentage #’s game, with the biggest emphasis on live game or scrimmage action. I agree getting a kid who has kicked in college is good and all, but have they kicked in a night game in the SEC?
This post was edited on 7/5/23 at 6:42 pm
Posted on 7/5/23 at 6:38 pm to Marciano1
This.
Posted on 7/5/23 at 6:44 pm to thejuiceisloose
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10 days.... that's a lot are you bringing your team logo PFG shirts to the dry cleaners there so they can last the whole trip?
Woah, you got me there. Joke is on you. I have at least 2 dozen shirts as well as 3 different hats so I can rotate and clean.
Posted on 7/5/23 at 7:47 pm to Gaston
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but have they kicked in a night game in the SEC?
obviously a high school kid hasn't
Posted on 7/5/23 at 7:56 pm to LaLadyinTx
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Different sport, but I've said many times that this isn't the reason why you spend that money. You do it because your kid loves it and you can afford it. You do it because regardless of what many people think, those high level athletes are generally many of the best kids on campus. You think about the football or basketball player that gets in trouble, barely passes, gets everything handed to them. That's the minority in high level children's athletics. Most of them are the hardest workers you'll find at their age. They have learned the best time management skills. They make good (often great) grades. For the most part, they are just high achievers and some of that is from what they learned in their sport. How to give all...how to not quit...how to wait for delayed gratification...be a team player, etc. The list is long and those are all life lessons that are worth more than any amount of money you could possibly spend on them.
What you have described is not the typical college athlete at a D1 championship university. Look at the top schools UGA, Alabama, USC…..a lot of the best athletes are getting in trouble. Stetson Bennett attended UGA for six years and still does not have a degree. ..other story lines are available at UGA,Bama, LSU, A&M, OU…
Posted on 7/5/23 at 7:56 pm to chalmetteowl
Well obviously those kids didn’t perform as well as some at the big ranking camps, where the highest pressure exists for high school players…or they wouldn’t need to transfer. There are no sure things…so take your pick.
There were around a dozen scholarship given to kickers last year, handful of offers to guys who are going to be seniors, two offers so far for the Jr class. You have to prove an exceptional level of competency to earn a scholarship…it’s not how most kickers play at the next level.
There were around a dozen scholarship given to kickers last year, handful of offers to guys who are going to be seniors, two offers so far for the Jr class. You have to prove an exceptional level of competency to earn a scholarship…it’s not how most kickers play at the next level.
Posted on 7/5/23 at 8:00 pm to Frogonmytoe
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Hopefully I don't get sucked into the abyss of bullshite.
Posted on 7/5/23 at 8:33 pm to lsu777
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plenty of people here think you can play rec and still make a HS team and even more think you can wait until 13 after little league to start travel and still have a shot to make a good hs team.
Talent is talent.
What you are leaving out is that all the talented kids, plus a bunch who aren’t, play travel ball.
But if a kid showed up at 14 with developed talent, he’s making the team, or the coach should be fired.
Posted on 7/5/23 at 8:39 pm to chalmetteowl
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oh it is with a different demographic
This actually points out another pernicious aspect of travel ball - it’s racist. One reason why parents left cheap, local rec league ball run by cities is so they could exclude black or other minorities from the team. Travel ball costs so much and requires so much time away from home poor or working class people can’t afford it and/or take time off work to do all the things.
In the rare occasion you do see a black player it is usually because they are supremely talented and they are being subsidized to be on the team. So that the Braxxtyns and Jaxxtyns can be on a better team.
Absolutely have seen this done. And people wonder why American black kids are woefully underrepresented in the MLB now. But you know who is WAAAYYY over represented- Hispanic guys. Who grow up playing on shite fields with shite equipment in mostly pick up leagues in third world countries.
So, to recap. Not only is travel ball dumb and populated by morons and grifters, it’s systematically racist.
Posted on 7/5/23 at 8:40 pm to choupiquesushi
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LOL if you don't think 7on7 is getting to be the same and AAU basketball, "elite" soccer and competitive cheer are worse = softball and baseball about the same.... a rapidly growing thing is flag football tourneys. every competitive youth endeavor has jumped the shark
As a parent of a “travel grappler”, I can concur. But we only enter 1 tourney every 3-4 months and train the rest of the year. Still expensive but the skills acquired are for life
There’s a kid in my son’s class whose parents are having him repeat 5th grade…for sports. That’s a prob
This post was edited on 7/5/23 at 8:44 pm
Posted on 7/5/23 at 8:42 pm to lsu777
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mine will actually have a chance to play high school ball
Posted on 7/5/23 at 8:42 pm to lsu777
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na most of the teams are dad coached
In AA, yes.
AA is rec ball played on weekends.
Which is why it gets mocked.
Posted on 7/5/23 at 8:45 pm to LSUFanHouston
My gf just put her son on a travel hockey team. Fml y’all. F. M. L.
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