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Post by airraider on Feb 23, 2008 18:24:21 GMT -6
for those of you who use girdles.. do you buy new ones every year or do you recycle them?
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Post by coachdearborn on Feb 23, 2008 19:37:03 GMT -6
We recycle them as much as possible, but they are a popular item that tends to disappear.
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Post by coachsky on Feb 23, 2008 20:04:22 GMT -6
We have to replace about 20% every year.
Last couple years we've had a 6-8 kids show up with their own set. Cant figure out if it's nicer gear or if they are freaked out about wearing someone else's shorts.
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Post by airraider on Feb 23, 2008 21:43:53 GMT -6
Old school we always recycled them as the players usually wore them over tights or other underwear..
new school have had two people comment that they usually just give them to the kids at years end being that they are like underwear..
at $10-30 a piece.. I dont want to replace these year in and year out..
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Post by coachplaa on Feb 23, 2008 23:40:54 GMT -6
We have a "spirit pack" that kids are expected to purchase or fundraise for every year. It includes shirt, shorts, game socks, mouthpiece, helmet decals, practice jersey, etc. All items that are "throw away." Our Varsity kids keep (buy) one jersey- home or away- each year, so each year we replace one set. Our JV team gets a team bag- I have plenty for our frosh to use for free. Our Frosh get game jerseys (that turn into practice jerseys following years).
Long story short, one thing I've seriously considered is making girdles a part of their spirit pack. One girdle should be able to last two seasons, so maybe include it as a frosh item, and as a Varsity item.
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Post by ajreaper on Feb 24, 2008 8:00:07 GMT -6
We've never issued/supplied them to our teams but I'd guess now 80% of the kids have/get their own anyhow- it's just easier and more comfortable wearing the girdle then not.
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Post by bluboy on Feb 24, 2008 8:36:50 GMT -6
This year our kids bought the NIKE girdles (with pads sewn into the girdles) as part of their spirit pack. We didn't have any problems with girdles, and kids got to keep them.
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Post by phantom on Feb 24, 2008 9:05:34 GMT -6
This year our kids bought the NIKE girdles (with pads sewn into the girdles) as part of their spirit pack. We didn't have any problems with girdles, and kids got to keep them. What the hell are they going to do with them? |
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Post by bluboy on Feb 24, 2008 9:17:42 GMT -6
I don't know, but they liked the idea of having thier own girdles.
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Post by phantom on Feb 24, 2008 9:40:47 GMT -6
Boy, this is definitely a generational thing.
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Post by champ93 on Feb 24, 2008 10:37:13 GMT -6
This year our kids bought the NIKE girdles (with pads sewn into the girdles) as part of their spirit pack. We didn't have any problems with girdles, and kids got to keep them. What the hell are they going to do with them? Most of our kids have bought the McDavid Hex pads for the past 3 years. We sell them at cost. If they are underclassmen , they wear them the next year or until the material wears out. Our kids that go on to play basketball wear them under their uniforms as added protection from the floor. |
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Post by touchdowng on Feb 24, 2008 17:11:43 GMT -6
90% of our kids purchase their own girdles
Anything from a basic 5 pocket to the Nike, Underarmor, or McDavids with embedded pad options.
At any rate, we only keep about 30 girdles on hand for those who can't afford or just need some extra help.
Guys, we must be REALLY bored if we're talkin' girdles.
Dr. Phil and Oprah have nuthin' on this website!
At least this is what my wife tells me......
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Post by clloyd on Feb 24, 2008 20:12:33 GMT -6
We use to hand out girdles but we are now just going to the slotted pads and belts and will eliminate another piece of cloth that we have to inventory.
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Post by realdawg on Feb 25, 2008 6:27:14 GMT -6
We buy all new for the varsity-JV gets hand me downs
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Post by ramsoc on Feb 25, 2008 12:19:03 GMT -6
Recycle, some of them buy their own, but we don't have the cash just laying around to buy new girdles every year. We do send them out for an industrial cleaning though.
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Post by poweriguy on Feb 25, 2008 12:23:21 GMT -6
"This is an X and O board not girdletalk.com!"  |
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Post by brophy on Feb 25, 2008 12:41:23 GMT -6
program I was at recycled them every year, because we had no money.
We bought a buttload (they were the compression short kind) and were (off) white.
After about 2 years, they looked.......uh.....man, I don't know how to describe it - but looked like something you wouldn't want to touch. We still used them, and they were a part of standard issue gear like shoulder pads and helmets, just noting that mud, blood, and whatever else stains can set in on white girdles (we washed everything Saturday morning).
Take that info for what its worth - we included the girdles as part of the issued equipment (assigning a number to the girdle)....if you didn't turn in #547 girdle that you were issued, you were paying for that piece of equipment.
I know you have your own issues going on there with personal responsibility and equipment 'accountability' - good luck.
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Post by coachorr on Feb 25, 2008 16:36:24 GMT -6
Buy pants with holes for pads. If kids want to wear girdles then it comes out of their pocket.
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Post by airraider on Feb 25, 2008 18:55:45 GMT -6
The reason this came up.. I came in and found an invoice for 60 girdles that were purchased last year. I found 4 when I got here.
So I asked some people why they were not taken up and they said that they were something that they did not take up every year because they were like underwear, and were not sanitary to recycle them.
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Post by coachorr on Feb 25, 2008 23:47:19 GMT -6
Exactly.
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Post by brophy on Feb 26, 2008 5:30:42 GMT -6
?? but is there any truth to that claim?
Your situation is unique, with a lot of inherent challenges by the district.
Is it unsanity to use a T-shirt over and over again? Even if there are stains on it, though you've bleached it? That really wouldn't make sense.
If you wash it every week, the germs and fungus are coming off, even though it doesn't look pretty.
Same with under garments.
You could get ringworm just as easy from an Under armor shirt as you could from a girdle.
I'm not sure the logic train holds up to that excuse.
If you don't want girdles - don't support them.
One of the reasons we had gone to them, was because of the constant taping of ill-fiting pads, butt-pads ending up on the hips, thigh pads falling out.......
Coupled with the fact that if given to themselves, if the KIDS had to buy them, many of the kids wouldn't eat if we didn't supply them (because they were so broke). That is why we got in the business of issuing girdles.
You have separate issues taking place with this challenge;
1) Missing equipment / assets due to mismanagment
2) Supplying supportive equipment with the football budget
3) Sanitation issues of clothing (this isn't much different than game pants / practice jerseys
If we confuse the issues that are actually being addressed, none of these questions will give you competent answer.
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