re: Travel ball is getting a lot less crowded for little Jaxson and Brayden

Depends, The Bolts have made a killing off the organization and marketed very well at the right time. At the lower age levels it's much more PAY to play...at the higher age levels the best of the best are recruited to play for the Premiere teams and pay much much less and none in some cases.

I've coached school ball for years with the head of another Top 5 organization in the South, and he does things very differently, much, much lower fees, very limited travel for their younger teams, even started a national tournament organization with the purpose of lowering costs for teams to play. He makes a little side money doing it, but his whole goal is for kids to get to play the game at a high level as much as possible and improve their lives through the game.


The tournament organizations are making a killing too, multiple thousands of dollars in entry fees per team and required room nights (stay to play) at hotels with jacked up prices. All with the notion that they'll be noticed if they go to these tournaments. There definitely are people taking a whole lot of families to the cleaners