Club directors and coaches can certainly influence college coaches opinion's about a decent recruit. If the club coach has a track record of successful recruits playing DI, the college coaches are more apt to listen. Its when those kids don't pan out, the clubs lose their influence. Plenty new clubs are out there "selling" their kids to legitimize their businesses, and in the long run they'll be judged by those kids DI performance. We've all heard college coaches say how they don't recruit from certain clubs, states, HS's, etc. Burn me once shame on you, burn me twice.....