I know there have been very few rec teams that have willingly bumped up in my 4 years being back in tourney ball... in all my years of playing sports more times than not you play to the level of ur competition, yes backwoods boys was my team last year, we bumped to d for a 6 game tourney, we ended up getting stuck playing B n B, PTI, Friendly Transmission.... Quote un quote D teams... it they combined b/c/d that weekend yea we got our asses smashed, but we hung with the true D teams, it made us better as individual players and as a team. NC will never have a world champ simply because teams like to drop and trophy chase..... My team started in erec this year and we very quickly realized what we thought we already knew going In, we didnt belong in e rec.
It is what it is, NC has 6 registered C teams, 26 registered D teams and already 60 registered in E as well as rec e. There are some very good D teams that cud play c just as there are e teams that cud play d. Im sorry if ur a conference team u have no business playing in an open tourney, you knew when u signed up to play conference it was alot of travel involved.. keep those out of open tourneyz or NC utrip get in gear and push to hold a conference tourney... simple.. teams classifications and teams dropping down is only hurting the entire sanction.... Freedom had 43 teams in the raleigh tourney... stuff dont change in utrip that number will only grow... sad that its turned into a money racket... we pay the most exspensive prices to play, you wud think things wud be a little organized with the classifications of teams... 1 or 2 ball players dont make a team.... it takes 10 players in the field and possibly 12 players swinging a bat to win tourneys.... but I guess let the drop downs keep dropping and playing for a trophy.....