We were recently contacted by a recruiter from an organization that promotes strong athletes with high character and academics to colleges for scholarship opportunities - The National Scouting Report. We were, of course, honored first because your child has to be invited and second, because it was a coach from a rival team that nominated them for membership. Anyway this organization promotes your child's strengths and accomplishments much like an agent would - sending out a resume, pictures, honors, awards, video of games played, setting up a personal website for coaches and universities to visit and make inquiries, etc. They even fill out college questionnaires and applications for you! Well as you can imagine all this comes with a price so at the end of the pitch he shows us two contracts - the 'Gold' and the 'Elite'. "The Gold package price is $1995 (saying the number as in 19.95) and the Elite package is $2495 (again as in 24.95)". He naturally excuses himself at this point in the presentation, I assume so that the parents may breathe again, he in an attempt to relieve himself - OF GUILT!! It is in this brief moment of complete silence, as I am staring at the contract in hand but not actually looking at it, that my oldest son, Zach, turns to me and says, "Wow, $25 bucks, we can do that!" Gotta love it!
Ohhh, but if you buy one the second one is half price!
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