Camp invitations

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Most college coaches depend on camps to enhance their salaries. Many coaches wouldn't be coaches otherwise.

If they weren't making money with camps they wouldn't be doing them. Whoever said they aren't money makers is clueless.

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Is this a generic camp invitation? Trying to understand how to tell the difference before my kid starts recruiting.

9th grader attends a showcase with her club team. She starts getting camp invitations to ID clinics and campus tours at a small college in the South she’s never heard of. It turns out the college attended the showcase in MA. The invitations are addressed to her but nothing is said about seeing her at the showcase.

1- Should she assume the college is sending info to every kid at the showcase?
2- Should she assume someone from the college saw her play?
3- Does it make a difference if she was invited to a nearly free ID clinic at the college? I’m not sure what the coach gets out of that if they aren’t using it as a money maker.

Not planning to send her to the South but she is starting to receive this type of correspondence. Does she ignore all of it?

First and foremost it’s a business. Every kid at that event is going to get a camp invite.

Most schools subscribe to a third party data mining type service that plugs emails and first names into a huge database which gives schools the opportunity to send semi-personal camp invites. Princeton and others have this wired

If the coach has legit interest they will reach out to the club coach

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If they weren't making money with camps they wouldn't be doing them. Whoever said they aren't money makers is clueless.

Who said they weren't making money? And who would also run a clinic for free?

Again, you guys have allowed clubs to siphon money from you for 10+ years. And now it's a "money grab" when they charge you $150 for a clinic.

Once you realize soccer is big business, then things become easier.

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Who said they weren't making money? And who would also run a clinic for free?

Again, you guys have allowed clubs to siphon money from you for 10+ years. And now it's a "money grab" when they charge you $150 for a clinic.

Once you realize soccer is big business, then things become easier.

see below....ID events are a reality for all but super-studs who can write their own ticket. All you can do is pick and chose carefully

To the OP: Focus on the schools of interest to her, not those who reach out. She'll be getting many more of those emails. Chances are they've never seen her play, especially for her age. Coaches go to events with a shopping list in hand. While they might see a player that grabs their attention, for the most part they're focusing on their list. She'd have to really stand out at a game they're already watching and what are the odds of that? They also don't want to waste much effort on a player that isn't interested in them.

I love this "it's one big money-making racket" story line. Come up with something new...

It's just plain boring and tired and beyond lazy!

There are costs to running events, there are NCAA rules (as much as we all think the NCAA is terrible), and coaches and staff are not taking the time out of their lives to do this for free.

You parents have been OK with soccer extracting every dollar out of your wallets for 10 years, now when little Johnny or Suzie is in high school, a $150 ID clinic is a "money-grab"