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CaCO3Girl
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 Posted - 08/23/2016 : 07:57:23
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Originally posted by jaguars18
Girl i know what teams you have been on or most on this board and if you have NON DAD PAID COACHES your paying more than 700 per year.
Who do you think should pay for hotel, food and lodging? Lets say i am playing with We will say West Central Hurricanes..fake name and i am paid to coach and run the team.
We want to go play in a tournament at Fort Myers and another in lets say Cary NC who should pay for the coaches hotel, food and gas?
If you think the coach should pay his own way good luck. If you can get a hotel for $150 bucks for the weekend thursday through sunday good luck on that too.
I was talking for Fall with regard to the $700.
If each of the 15 kids pays $150 that is $2250 for the coach to stay in three locations, that does seem doable.
I didn't find it odd that a coach would get his hotel paid for, what I found odd was that a baseball coach could just say he wants to play in Charlotte, Orlando and Jekyll Island and poof that is what the team does and the parents are okay with all that expense, not just for the coach but for them. That easily adds an additional $1500 per kid to their yearly baseball expenses. Seems ridiculous considering all the baseball we have here for the youth ages. |
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Crazyforbball
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Posted - 08/23/2016 : 21:03:16
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| I think the overall point here without splitting hairs...if you play on a professionally coached team, yes, it's a job for these guys and we pay the cost of their travel but it's minimal..they usually double up, stay in a pretty cheap place and buy their own food, at least that's been our experience. We only travel out of town for important events, every other weekend is most certainly not an all expense paid luxury trip. I don't know what the norm is, but our guys keep the cost down and we mainly play the big tourneys right here. I bet it gets $$ at 16 and up. At that point you probably need to do a reality check. If your kid isn't real likely to make it to the next level, then you may want to re-think if it's worth it. Unless of course you have a lot of disposable income or alot of hotel points. |
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sebaseball
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Posted - 08/23/2016 : 21:48:47
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My other thread should be on tournaments who demand you use their hotels so they get a kick back or you pay a surcharge for the event.
I hear ya! How in the H-E-Double L can PG require you to use "their" hotels and then only give you 4-5 options? With one of them being a step above a roach coach for $100/night? REALLY? You can't do just a little more work and get a slew of hotels signed on? It took me one Google search to come up with a dozen more hotel options than what PG was offering; and closer too. Dadgum pathetic! I saw where hotels are going up basically on-site, but I can only imagine what the freakin' rate on those rooms are gonna be.... |
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CaCO3Girl
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Posted - 08/24/2016 : 13:43:46
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Originally posted by jaguars18
Once you get to be 16 plan on spending almost every Thursday through Sunday in a hotel near a college somewhere.
Your hotel bills will be much more than your team dues if you make an elite team.
We played at i think 6 colleges or events between fort myers and east cobb last season. I think as a parent i paid for my son to be in a hotel about 16 to 20 nights. My other thread should be on tournaments who demand you use their hotels so they get a kick back or you pay a surcharge for the event.
Dang Jag, doesn't sound like fun! Have you thought about just sending him to local camps/showcases? Or at the very least getting a double points hotel credit card?  |
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jbarley
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Posted - 08/24/2016 : 16:17:10
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What are you talking about??..Every mid level to top team at 16 u and up travels the college circuit and does the wwba events and spends most of summer in hotels. Some take team buses and some have parents cart them around. Its a blast not a bad thing. Its your last great years as a parent watching your kid if he does not make it.
I was at South Carolina. Charleston Southern and UNCW all in a 4 week span this June. Then came July Perfect Game..Fort Myers. University of Tenn.
What a great time and yes darn expensive |
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Crazyforbball
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Posted - 08/24/2016 : 17:29:08
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| I agree nothing could be more fun regardless of if your kid makes it, as long as you can afford it. The minute you are spending their college money to traipse all over the country when they probably won't move on is when you need to be careful. |
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Typical Cost for Fall Baseball & Spring Baseball
