Chicago Bulls/Sox Academy

My child was on one of their Bulls travel teams. I could not have been more disappointed. For the money we paid for it I expected much more.
1. There was no communication between coaches and parents, unless parents initiated it. And even then it sometimes took 2 emails 24 hours apart to get a response.
2. We would find out on Wednesday nights what time our games were on Saturday and sometimes Sunday. Are we not expected to have any other weekend plans?
3. None of our competitors were evenly matched. 90% absolutely killed us. Except for the one team of younger kids we played against that the Bulls pulled A team players for so we could slaughter them. What is the point of that?
4. We were promised 20 – 25 games. We played far less than that.
5. Practices consisted of running drills and scrimmaging. They do not learn plays, or practice setting picks.
6. During games they would have 1 point guard who would drive the basket 90% of the time, usually resulting in a turnover, and almost never a basket. He would very very rarely pass, so no one else would even get a chance to shoot.
7. Most games we would have 0 – 2 subs and be playing against teams with atleast 5 kids on the bench.
Obviously, I am very unhappy with the experience and I hope this could save someone else lots of time and money. We have since gone back to park district ball and the coaching and instruction is far better. And the experience so much more beneficial.

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Went to a birthday part here for the second time a year apart and what can I say BORING their is nothing in the party room upstairs for the kids to do! The courts look amazing and the lids would have loved to play but they could not! Thee kids got 1 slice of pizza and 1 Gatorade the staff played video games and the kids ran wild with nothing to do they said it was the wort bday party they ever went to too bad they can just look at the beautiful courts

We just had our sons 7^th birthday party here. Disappointed from the beginning. I have thrown many birthday parties at different venues and this has been the worst at customer service. I believe they ride on it’s name «Bulls/​Soxs Academy» that they charge what they charge.
Booking the party was easy of course but first strike was when it took us four calls for us to get a call back for our final count. The girl finally returned our call after a few days and apologized. She was supposedly sick even though they had told us she had complaints about this before. We originally reserved for Basketball and Baseball but after my son saw the video on-​line of the vault he convinced us to change it to the vault and basketball-​big mistake. The Vault is complete garbage, nothing like the video! A lot of the games weren’t working and multiple kids asked if we were going to a different room because they were BORED. Really, you pay extra for this room and 7 year olds were bored! Basketball was better but it’s basically a very cool gym.
Finally we were getting closer to go to the party room for pizza. Nobody came to ask us what kind of pizza we wanted so they just decided to order cheese. We brought our own food for the adults. But when we got to the room nothing was up there. We had to ask for the food we brought. We had to ask for the Gatorades they advertise for the kids. I felt like we had to keep bugging them for things that should have been set up before we got to the party room. Overall just not a good experience I felt like we paid way too much for what we got and glad it’s over.

It’s a very clean facility and beautiful, but that’s about it. I have my 5 year old in the basketball classes and it’s not fun watching this over crowded classes. All the kids have to wait too long to get a turn, just to shoot one time. It’s only ones a week and they combine 5 year old to 8 years olds together. I probably get more out of open gym then waist my $$ on this.

Probably the nicest indoor basketball courts I’ve ever played on.
Came here to play some pickup basketball with a group. There are 3 separate courts. One is a replica of the Bulls United Center court. One is a replica of the Old Chicago Stadium court. I’ve played on numerous wood courts, but these are IMMACULATE. These courts are super sqeeky clean and you will literally see your reflection on them.
These courts also had probably the nicest backboards /​rims I’ve ever made a basket on. There are chairs with Bulls Basketball seat covers surrounding the courts as well as scorers tables. There are scoreboards, championship and players banners all around.
If you are a Bulls fan, and aren’t NBA material, this is the probably the closest you’ll ever get to playing on an NBA quality court. Like I said, these courts are SWEET. I definitely got goose bumps the first time I had a chance to play here.
Outside of the courts, you’ll see Bulls /​Sox photos /​graphics memorabilia all around. This facility also features top notch baseball facilities. I saw what appeared to be hitting coaches working with players in batting areas as well as fielding drills. (You can see everything through glass in the hallways.)
Top notch facility. I’d definitely go back if I get the chance to play here again.