How many camps do you recommend over the summer? We see different numbers across our friends and acquaintances and wondering what is the proper range for a rising junior (2026). Also, do you prefer academic mega camps to school specific?

Most recruiting services’ offers are just you buying someone’s brain and copying their formula and hoping it works for you. But only you know what is best for you. My hope is Ivy offers helps you how to think more than what to think. There is a tension between the value you have of yourself as a parent or player and the resulting place you land a college offer from. So many are fixated on the resulting offer but I think it is more crucial to work on your sense of personal value first. The players/parents with rock solid senses of who they are usually have a much easier time in the recruiting and college process. Maybe just riffing here. Any thoughts?

Been thinking a lot about this question. Most of the time, the parents I encounter don’t care if their kid goes to Alabama or not. What they do get very excited about is having something like a sport that gets their kid excited and interested and invested in their own college process vs. mom/dad hammering them to figure out where they want to go to school. Am I wrong here? My kids are small, college is a ways off, but, I can imagine, if my son loved football and it was something that got him to have better habits in school, do well in class, and got him invested in his future somewhat, that would be more than worth the effort of getting to practice/money and so on on my end, regardless of where he ended up at school. Thoughts?