This past weekend in Vegas

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by fullor30

The point about the coaches being there is it attracts more teams and promoters/Nike use that as a selling point to justify high entrance fee.

Understood, but 10k? And if so, they should at least be paying the officials standard wages. Get the officials to boycott it unless the pay is better---or have the assignor give the best officials to other tourneys---and leave them with scrubs and rec. league officials. Let's see how much the teams like paying premium rates for rookie officials.

[Judtech]

I actually know where 2 of those gyms used for that tournament are located at. I was even at one during the first day/afternoon of play. (What can I say, I know people HA) I believe whoever assigns NCAA W for Big 10 etc, used that as one of their evaluating camps but is no longer affiliated with that event, which might explain some of the officiating cluster.
While I think the 10k entree fee might be a bit high, I wouldnt be suprised if it was between 5k - 7500. You also forgot to add in the 'fee" the college coaches pay to get into the event which, if memory serves was $300. Unless the officiating was horrendous, I am not sure how much those coaches care, they just want to see and be seen. Now the coaches with AAU might care!!