Prepster good post. We have no clue what happened that may have caused this situation (now to be changed).
No one can fully understand how distracting it can be and maddening to a coaching staff trying to get your team to win their conference championship, regionals to get to Omaha ( a yearly goal for many programs) and you have the stands filled with scouts, many, many scouts night after night. I can tell you first hand as a parent and in watching others, it puts a lot of undo pressure on the players (like they don't already have it). I have seen many top ranked college players not perform well because of it.
Telling your HS son to cross this school off the list is silly, I agree that the player should speak with the coaches to find out why they feel this way.
Wonder if the coaches made this decision without consulting the AD?
During sons college draft year, he was not allowed to speak to the scouts, all the questions were directed to his pitching coach. I feel he was very much distracted by all of the scouts, cross checkers, and sometimes GM's, in the stands.
This is why the NCAA should allow them to have advisors that can speak to the clubs, so the player can concentrate on taking care of business.
Something has got to change.
You make very good points. I watched the same thing happen at the High School Level last year. I thought that it put undo pressure on not only the kid they were coming to watch, but the other players too.