Camps......How many and how much $$$$$

[jeschmit]

Originally Posted by Multiple Sports

Big camp in Philly this weekend.....anybody playing Marie's game.....

Yup... Played the game. I worked 13 games in 4 days. Not too bad of a camp. There were classroom sessions with former coaches one day, Dee Kanter another day and Debbie Williamson on the third day.

I got some information on the rules changes from Debbie in her classroom session that I'll post in the appropriate thread.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by jeschmit

Yup... Played the game. I worked 13 games in 4 days.....

Way too many games to work in a camp, IMO. Especially if it is a camp used for getting hired by a college supervisor. By the time you've worked your 3rd game it's already known by the powers that be whether or not you are a truly viable candidate.

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Way too many games to work in a camp, IMO. Especially if it is a camp used for getting hired by a college supervisor. By the time you've worked your 3rd game it's already known by the powers that be whether or not you are a truly viable candidate.

And that in a nutshell, is the real rip-off of college "exposure" camps. The CAMPER pays for the privilege to work 2-3 times as many games as needed. All the while the "clinician" is making huge bucks off of campers who stand absolutely no chance of getting picked up. The NCAA operates like a monopoly, but the individual conferences that endorse or tolerate this camp structure are just as bad. I don't know what alternative there is...but I know there has to be a better way.

[BatteryPowered]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

And that in a nutshell, is the real rip-off of college "exposure" camps. The CAMPER pays for the privilege to work 2-3 times as many games as needed. All the while the "clinician" is making huge bucks off of campers who stand absolutely no chance of getting picked up. The NCAA operates like a monopoly, but the individual conferences that endorse or tolerate this camp structure are just as bad. I don't know what alternative there is...but I know there has to be a better way.

Just a thought...what about the clinician must create attendance standards, the conference for whom "clinician" works must approve the list of campers and a camper can only attend the camp three times. If the clinician cannot determine if they are qualified to work games for that conference in three years two things are probably true; the camper is not ready and the clinician is either a bad judge of talent or just in it for the money

There were "rumors" back when about an assignor in this area. You had to attend at least 4 of his camps before he would seriously consider you and if you worked more than 3 games you were just a "camp body" to cover games. Don't know if they were true but I heard them several times for different people.

[Multiple Sports]

Battery Operated.....

The problem with your argument is 90% of all camps identify themselves as teaching camps.....although most everybody at a camp at the D 1 and 2 level is going there to "try out".....

If anyone goes to a camp run by a D1 super more than three times, then it is on that individual.....

[Raymond]

My camp season is over. And I allowed Multi Sport to carry me through my last camp game of the year.