It's quite clear to me and any other business person. The clubs are seeing the writing on the wall and are afraid that over time with the emergence of prospect days, individual showcases, school teams playing summer etc. that they are becoming irrelevant and dis-intermediated. They are deathly afraid of other recruiting avenues emerging that are threatening big chunks of their profit pool. But they are their own worst enemy - with all of the greed and printing of so much money over the past few years - it was bound to happen that others would take notice and figure out a way to jump into that profit pool. Like the life cycle of all profitable industries, its now become saturated with new entrants and will go through a lot of upheaval as it matures. In the meantime, you'll just have to hold down your lunch reading the clubs' desparation and shameless marketing of recruits to keep milking the cow until its dead.
Eventually the Express and other clubs will disband the concept of summer teams and just revert to just organizing clinics and showcases such as the Nat 175. People are beginning to see that there just isn't any recruiting value in playing club ball in the middle of a dusty dry 110 degree field in the middle of nowhere with nobody watching except parents. That only benefits the clubs. I'm allocating my financial resources to having my son do just showcases and prospect days. That's my choice, y'all do what you want with your $3000+ (after tax).
