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

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Chad504boy

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Good God, you procreated?

I have to say I’m not shocked you’re a travel baseball dad.

Yea I’m sure it’s travel ball making participation go down…not that thing called covid right?

I mean travel ball was around from 2013-2019 yet participantion was up 13%

Yep, positive it wasn’t covid and our dumbass government response…all travel ball

How serious is this Bham Bolts team? Had a friend bragging about his 8 year old invited for a tryout. Lol Figured they are just finding gullible parents willing to spend the money.

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But this is our life for a few years, it’s what we enjoy and all this becomes our vacations and leisure time.

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This

And glad it’s you they are jumping on, not me

Btw for those in south la, travel ball can be cheap or it can be expensive, up to you but there are tournaments every weekend in the spring from Houston to Nola, Beaumont, LC, laffy, BR so you do not really have to travel.

Don’t let the national scene make you think it all cost that much


Oh and sports participation is down big time across the board since covid with rare exceptions

No but travel tends to be mainly upper middle and wealthy on many teams. Atleast the good ones

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

Was just curious. What spot does she play? Hope she is having a good fall and has a great school ball season in spring

The local schools here offer esports now

In 15-20 years, football will be almost entirely hood kids and redneck kids. Lesser amounts of upper-middle class suburban kids are participating in tackle football every year