Even with the benefit of A throurgh E on your list, none of it matters to a college coach (who's job is on the line) if your kid is not an athletic thoroughbred or Einstein. I've spoken to no less than 5 or 6 college coaches both in DII and DI over the past month or so and they are all exhausted by the club scene - they want to see your kid perform in their high school program to see how he plays a specific role within a system, takes direction and takes pride in his school uniform. All of those things are a much better gauge of how he will transition to a college coache's system then watching johnny play Random Team A vs Random Team B for 40 min. The high school scene is not dead yet and if anything the club scene is killing itself.
Name the universities or colleges involved in your poll and BOTC will call them to specifically discuss this issue. You are pushing a self-serving bias in this post. College coaches actually do NOT want to scout High School Varsity matches for two specific reasons.
[1] High school matches take place one at a time - meaning one game, one venue, two teams. It is an ineffective use of their recruiting budget to schedule travel accordingly.
[2] High school competitions are very erratic in terms of competition level. College coaches are looking for matches played as close as possible to the college game's speed and physicality - the only place to find those types of situations are at showcases, typically on a regional level.
Again, post the names of the colleges and we will validate this information for all of the BOTC readers.
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