CBI just brought up another point about getting parents to pony up the bucks. When we had a lot of free time between games for amusement I sometimes would wander over to a preteen travel game. The parents were entertaining because many were insane.
One time I engaged some dads who believed since the 17u A team places their players in D1 all their kids would become D1 players. In the meantime they were paying $300 a month for access and training plus the cost of the travel team and travel.
There used to be someone on this board whose son came through that program. He told me in his son’s class only four kids from the 13u A team survived the program to make the 17u A team. Yet these preteenU dads were convinced their sons were future D1 players just by being in the program.