One last thing. Promotional efforts? Excuse me but coaches that promote players that can not play are not taken seriously and hurt players more than they help them. Helping kids is about being honest with them. It works like this. If you have a kid that can play you call someone, write them, email them, fill out that questionaire. Then someone comes and watches them play. If they like what they see there you go. Once you have developed a great reputation for being honest and truthfull about your kids your word becomes a powerfull thing for your players. Once you have developed a reputation for not being truthfull about players ability you hurt them because people will not believe you and will be skeptical. In todays baseball world kids can take alot of this on their own shoulders. Attend PG events, local showcase events, go to college camps etc. They can promote themselves. It sounds like to me you are concerned that your son or someones son will not get his props because the coach only promotes the (studs) and not all the players that have the ability to play at the next level. If this is the case then do the work yourself if the coach will not do it. We feel that it is our job to see that every kid that has the desire and talent to play at the next level gets the opportunity. Coaches that leave it to chance because they dont want upset a parent are lacking some *****.