If they played at schools in the Sunbelt or Conference USA and you never saw a coach, I'm not sure if it's the wrong team....or the wrong tournament? Typically tourneys at schools that size are big enough and promoted well enough that they draw coaches. My son played at least a dozen different D1's at 15u-17u in tourneys run by 3 or 4 different tourney organizations and there were always coaches at the games, whether they were at the host team's stadium or surrounding fields, (either HS or smaller colleges). If the tourneys they are at schools in those two conferences aren't getting coaches, that just seems strange to me.