Txbball14 If you don't like it don't go, that's the easy way out.
I don't think an organization should be able to dictate where you stay, didn't use to be that way. So you are going to be ok when in a year or two they make deals with restaurants and tell you where to eat and where to buy gas so they make a spiff off of you. If Texas teams stop feeding the out of state tournaments and start staying home and play things would change. You would also have a more concentrated area for those scouts and coaches to visit.
Scouts and college coaches will come to the big tournaments where they know D1 kids and propects are but for 95% of the teams that travel believing that they are going to get noticed is crazy! Most of the teams that travel don't even have a D1 or D2 kid on their roster. Unless you're the top two or three level teams with a well run summer organization the scouts and coaches are not sitting in the bleachers out in Guthrie, Ok hoping they find someone thats not already on the radar. Scouts know where the prospects are and they are NOT at a majority of the tournamnets that promote that scouts and coaches will be there.
I feel for the families that can't travel because they are paying $125.00 a night for a room when they could book there own room for $75.00 and now afford the gas to get there.
Let's just call the majority of the tournaments what they are "Baseball Vacations" and lose the hype of the term showcase.
Is it even legal for a organization to mandate where you must stay or you can't play in there tournament?
This is not my first summer rodeo but after many years it is my last. We need tournaments, it's fun to travel with your team. But when a hotel mgr in Ark and Ok confirm what I had thought and tell me they had to raise their rates so they could commission the tournament organizer $10.00 a room I decided to voice my opinion. It is what it is until people change it!