By this time everyone should know the deal with these travel teams. The better Teams for each organization are set except for a few spots. Certain players are recruited and told to "tryout" for the sake of appearing that the tryouts are legit. All other players "trying out" are there to fill the "lesser" teams that the organizations want to field. The "lesser" teams are known as the organizations "money makers". If you go in un-informed shame on you. These large organizations do not provide for the "lesser" teams as they do for their "elite" teams. If you dont like the way these teams do things don't complain, take your money and players to smaller organizations and build them up and compete. Turtles, barracudas, 91 whatever, get real. Good players get noticed flashy uniforms and the other nonesense is just that...Nonsense
my son was not recruited by the express and went to the tryout to see where he fits, this was his first time trying out for any team, nobody asked us to come and certainly no guarantees, he had a very strong tryout and was picked for the orange team - no complaints here, he is an OK player but certainly not an elite recruited player and we did not know any evaluators. so for at least one player is seemed pretty fair to us.
