Originally posted by Unregistered
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The OPL board of Directors which is is made up by the DOC's are not paid by the OPL.
Which is a practice consistent with the operation at the OYSA.
Unlike the OYSA board the OPL board gets to choose/control where thousands of kids in their respective member clubs must play league or post season outdoor soccer.
Monopolistic and anti-trust practices perhaps, but it guarantees both control of their membership and generates windfall revenue (to the OPL).
The city, school district, parks district foot the majority of the bill for the huge fixed cost of Soccer fields and most of the clubs do pay an nominal fee to use the parks, but in the end those OPL member families using these fields get billed twice. Once in their club registration fees and then again for OPL league team registration costs. No discount to the OPL families who are already paying for use of the fields in club dues. Double dip, oh well.
Like many non-profits, yes a mutual benefit is a form of non-profit structure, they (OPL) aren't saddled with the cost of renting fields for games or even field maintenance or even taxation of the profits they extract from collecting fees for league and tournament play.
Coupled with the fact they have no oversight or management infrastructure to provide checks and balances this wild business model has become recipe for huge margins/profits.
The byproducts of their business model? Incredible financial reserves from low overhead costs and at the other end of the spectrum no control of coaching behavior, one of the former OPL coaches was issued no less than (8) red cards in a 4-5 month period.
In the end the balance sheet tells the tale, they have profits unlike any other 'league' operation in the United States, with no significant salaries to payroll or field costs to absorb. As a footnote only the OPC DOC's get to control what to do with these profits.
Throwing a bone last week for the first time in 5 years for a 'free' Academy for the few remaining members.
Now there is competition for control of these perceived magical league revenue $$$. In the end it all amounts to just a sick and twisted indictment of youth soccer politics in Oregon.
Vomit.
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