Good experience to be had all around.
The Father/Son camp that I worked at was held in the Pocono Mountains, PA and is run by the basketball group, Hoop Group.
Let me first speak on the campgrounds and environment. If your a basketball enthusiast and if you're reading this right now, you probably are..then this is a place you'd want to check out if you haven't already.
Really only two things dominate the landscape on the campus at Pocono's. Old wooden cabins (probably about 30) and basketball courts (probably at least 10 full sized courts and over 40 hoops in all I'd assume, just guessing at this point). Point is there are a lot of basketball courts, a truly exciting facility.
The other thing I really liked about the Pocono's campus was the sense of history you had when in their buildings and in the covered courts known as "The Gym." Hanging from the rafters (literal rafters) are numerous retired jerseys of either former players, coaches, or speakers who have came through the camps over the years. Hanging are some truly historic names: Bobby Hurley Sr., and Jr., Chris Mullin, Dave Hopla (who doesn't love that guy), Chamique Holdsclaw, Nykesha Sales the list goes on and on.
Inside the dining halls you have those similiar retired jerseys as well as pictures of again greats of the game who have been at camp: Mark Jackson, Rik Smits again the list goes on.
Outside of having to live in a cramped room which piled three of us coaches together, and had room for two more, eating camp food and having to use community bathrooms, this would have been a place I would have been real comfortable in. But despite the living conditions, which admittedly, I'm a comforts of a home guy, always have been, my time there was great.
As far as the camp goes, if your a father and reading this or for that matter if you're a son and reading this..Father/Son weekends are something you should really look into. Its nice to sort of step away from the "real world" a little bit and just spend some quality time with your big man or little man. On top of all that the opportunity is there to play/shoot hoops almost for an entire day.
Also the camp is based around learning and there is plenty to be had for those willing to listen and take in the information.
Besides all that, its a pretty awesome networking opportunity. In just one weekend I met a few coaches and a few fathers in businesses I could see myself going into, so for aspiring coaches or aspiring basketball business connoisseurs (nice) I'd strongly recommend thinking about this.
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