Originally posted by Unregistered
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There were other issues too. For example, it didn't help club morale that the teams that had kids whose parents were board members exempted themselves from the club trainer mandate, in effect forcing these high costs on others while continuing to use parent-coaches and outside trainers themselves.
They also had an issue where the 3 or 4 best teams in the club had been using KK trainers, sometimes in addition to the mandated club trainers, and one day one of the Sachem board members had a fit and banned the KK members from the field, which led to all of those teams leaving the club.
The final straw were Sachems field problems. When the school district jacked up the costs from a few hundred a month to $18,000 a month, Sachem had to partner with a lacrosse organization which saw many of the soccer teams getting only 2 or 3 home games a season, yet registration fees went through the roof to help cover the field costs.
Put it all together and you have a high cost, low results club. LIPS openly pulling Sachem players over to Smithtown is actually doing those players a favor, giving them a chance to play on decent teams.
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