It's definitely sad to hear of parents who have been lied to or deceived. I personally don't tolerate dishonesty. That's bad joo-joo, and also bad for business.
That in itself has raised a couple of questions in my mind.
1) With such a great reputation, why would someone jeopardize all they have built (the organization) by lying to hundreds of parents.
2) Having multiple age groups with multiple teams suggests that there may be as many as 300-500 young men associated with the organization. That would also suggest that there are several hundred parents of these young men involved in the organization. With that many people involved, I am surprised at the level of complaint. (a whimper, if you will) That tells me that, relatively speaking, there are not that many parents who feel this way.
For the benefit of everyone involved, I certainly hope that a good resolution is found.
There are a couple of problems with your assumption that because of the size of the organization or the limited number of complaints(that we know about), i.e. more people are not speaking out here on this forum, that things might be ok.
The Florida Bombers have had a good reputation over the years of producing top competitive travel teams. The owner ran it during those years and presumably over saw everything from top to bottom. However somewhere along the line he hired a guy(who goes by different names)who he entrusted with his business. This guy was intentionally telling parents that their kid was good enough to play for the Bombers organization, and for X amount of $$$, they would get national exposure/recognition by being on such an elite team.
What he didn't tell parents was that the Bombers had multiple teams(equivalent to what you are reading in this thread) Red, Blue, Green Bombers, but not the "Florida Bombers". What was worse is that he indicated that kids could play a certain position with maybe one other player to compete for time with. Instead the parents quickly learned that their kids were not going to the elite tourneys, and even if they did, their kid was competing with 5 other SS for playing time. Additionally their website touted long term experienced coaches, yet they were hiring coaches practically on the same day the kids were reporting for their orientation. I could go on and on about all the things this guy did to kids/parents with only the interest of generating money to support the primary team, of which most kids/parents paid little or nothing. When some of the parents got fed up and tried to go above this guys head to the owner, they were never able to reach him. Even worse the parents were insulted and even threatened with being black balled with college coaches for being trouble makers.
So that alone could explain why most parents did not speak out, much less the fact not everyone uses the internet or knows about forums like this one.
In the long run I think the owner of the Bombers got wind of his businesses reputation going down the tubes, and I heard the guy he hired to run it was eventually fired. Then again, rumor has it that this same guy is still affiliated with them, just under a different name. This guy also has started his own summer travel program, and it is staffed with other so called "Bombers" coaches, so there still seems to be some type of a connection.
Regardless, I suspect that the Bombers started out with the right intentions, but somewhere along the way lost their integrity. Whether it was poor managerial choices, greed, or something else, they were deceiving/lying to parents about what they were going to get for their money.
As I stated earlier in this thread, I have no direct knowledge of the Dirtbags organization, but I did say similar stories have come out about other travel team organizations. Whether the Dirtbags are better, worse, or the same is not at issue. Instead it is a fact that parents need to take a strong buyer beware approach before spending thousands of dollars for false promises.