You can't just lump in the college audience with the travel ball audience. It's not the same.
I also don't think looking to improve rec ball ignores the competitive nature of people. If done properly, it should fuel it. It's about making it more competitive, not less.
Anyways, it seems you're...
Market... It makes money. I don't know exactly how much isn't coming from family of players. Audience? Please... what percent of the audience do you think isn't either direct family or possibly a scout?
Either way my ascertainment of why rec ball is declined is different. It's because these...
I get what you are saying. I think there's a misunderstanding of what's truly good for the sport by these national organizations. When you see the little league world series, it's a big success. It's because there's regulations for this sort of thing and people like watching it imperfect players...
Thanks for the response and your question. I would say it's about county-wide for a midwest state. We're in the middle and the furthest away is about an hour... but if we were on the edge then it could be around a two hour drive. I think that makes practice very difficult. Also, the girls like...
I am wondering what sort of guidelines other towns/leagues have to prevent team stacking for rec ball. I read a couple of other threads and see that it's a fairly common problem. I would like to hear what you have seen implemented that has worked (as well as can be).
We are in a multi-town rec...