I'm a past Pop Warner Cheer dad - went from 2009 - 2012. Most of the cheer teams stay at the Moderates and the Values are mostly taken up by Football. Generally, the cheer teams come with parents for each girl - the football teams generally come with a few chaperones to manage the whole team (though that isn't always the case).
Disney requires the teams to stay at the resorts but does not require them to get park tickets. Consequently, some of the football teams from lower income areas only get to hang out at the ESPN center, the resort and HS on the party night.
You will not see many packs of football players in the parks at all. You will see groups of girls wearing the same t-shirts and lots and lots of hair bows.
Pop Warner enforces a 10pm curfew for participants and we always have a bed check at 9:45.
Even though we usually tack on a few days after the event, a lot of girls go home the same day as competition or next morning. During the lead up to the cheer competitions the teams are required to have daily practice - usually in the morning, so no rope drop. Our teams were never allowed to swim before competition either.
A word about the parents (I think they are a bigger problem than the girls). While some families really enjoy Disney, there are groups that aren't necessarily fans or would never go on their own and end up parking themselves at the pool bars most of the day and push parenting off on the coaches. Obviously, if you aren't at a Pop Warner hotel you won't notice.
I have stayed on property many many times over the years when this group has been here. They are the most supervised and well behaved kids I have ever had the pleasure to share space with. Chaperones act the way chaperones should. I wish I could say that about all youth groups but I honestly can't.
