Originally posted by Unregistered
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The team has predictable expenses - field rentals for practices and games, trainer costs, referee fees for games, insurance, league and tournament registrations, etc.
Add that all up and assume it's $50,000 for the fall/winter/spring. Assume you pick 20 kids for your team. At our club, we asked parents if their kids or could not pay for the training. If they said NO then we asked them to fill out a scholarship application and THEN we would check with the school system to see if the kids were or were not receiving free meals. Parents would allow us to do this. If they qualified for meal support school then our club policy was to NOT charge them the full cost of being on the team.
So if you had 20 kids and all could pay then each would pay 50,000 divided by 20, or $2500 per year. If only could 18 could pay, then 18 would pay $50k/18 or $2750 each. Somehow the team needed to collect enough to pay the $50k of expenses. We didn't try to get sponsors but did it the above way and parents understood what was going on.
Now if you don't like that, then I'm sure you could form your own team somewhere where every kid would pay an equal amount, and then you can go find a league with an appropriate division for you to play in.
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