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Post by gacoach on Aug 23, 2007 7:32:59 GMT -6
I was wondering if this is a common practice or more exclusive to Georgia, or more exclusively, to our region.
We have started "charging" $500/player to play. Now, there are ways around this, i.e., selling a stadium sign or raising the money. We also scholarship players on an as needed basis.
We are a 5A school, the largest class, and other schools in our region charge up to $1000.
Is this common?
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Post by mensengrizzlies on Aug 23, 2007 7:49:13 GMT -6
Here in Europe its very standard to charge players to play. All the teams I've played for have charged players anywhere from 200 to 500 dollars.
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Post by toprowguy on Aug 23, 2007 7:56:11 GMT -6
This is becoming more popular in our area in the private schools due financial problems. So far I have not of this taking place in public schools but I'm sure its not too far behind.
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Post by los on Aug 23, 2007 8:20:59 GMT -6
They did this at the small private school I helped at last. I think it was between $250-$500 to play football. I gotta say, it did cause some problems though. Lots of grumbling by the parents, especially in the cases where player talent margins are closer! Example= where Billy gets to start and enjoys most of the playing time, but is just marginally better than Johnny and both paid the same money to play? I hope hs football doesnt have to resort to this pay to play crap! Opens up too many cans of worms? los
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Post by CVBears on Aug 23, 2007 8:24:16 GMT -6
We charge our boys for a transportation fee. It's $50 a season. Those that qualify for free and reduced lunch get a break/don't have to pay.
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Post by kboyd on Aug 23, 2007 8:41:35 GMT -6
We charge $225, which includes their spirit pack (t-shirt, shorts, sweats, hoodie, game socks). They also get $20 of that back when they sell a book of raffle tickets.
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Post by toprowguy on Aug 23, 2007 9:34:21 GMT -6
We do charge our kids $100 for their spirit pack but they are given $100 worth of tcikets to sell if they choose to do so.
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Post by olinecoach61 on Aug 23, 2007 10:09:47 GMT -6
We charge $250, up from $200 last season. FYI we're in CT.
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Post by coachbdud on Aug 23, 2007 10:24:39 GMT -6
here in my district in CA, the policy isnt state wide, it just foes district by district. Here each player has to pay a 100 dollar transportation fee, this fee can be waived if they are on free or reduced lunch
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Post by dubber on Aug 23, 2007 11:23:26 GMT -6
We do about 4 different fundraisers a year. Our kids paid for 7-on-7 t-shirts and a couple pair of UA socks 9about 16 bucks). The fundraising covers the rest.
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Post by wingman on Aug 23, 2007 20:28:47 GMT -6
400 here and 100 transportation.
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Post by tiger46 on Aug 23, 2007 20:29:14 GMT -6
Don't your states allow team boosters? I don't keep up with all the latest HS info. But, in Texas, I've never heard of a single school charging a player a penny- definitely not in the days that I played. Not only were we not charged, we ate at some pretty nice restaurants in some towns.
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Post by fbdoc on Aug 24, 2007 12:07:12 GMT -6
Christian school in South Florida. HS pays $135 per sport which includes spirit pack. 7th & 8th pays $95.
We've done this for 3 years now and our parents are used to it.
We also have a Booster Club that pays for EVERY team's uniforms (we got new ones this year!) as well as many big ticket items.
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Post by gacoach on Aug 24, 2007 12:18:30 GMT -6
Don't your states allow team boosters? I don't keep up with all the latest HS info. But, in Texas, I've never heard of a single school charging a player a penny- definitely not in the days that I played. Not only were we not charged, we ate at some pretty nice restaurants in some towns. Yes we have a pretty large booster club. They just started the $500 this year and so far have had no complaints. All of the other schools in our region do it so to them we are just trying to keep up. |
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Post by Coach Klemme on Aug 26, 2007 20:27:17 GMT -6
In our district the HS pays $180 for a sport and the middle school pays $105. We are a 1st ring suburb in the twin cities. I have heard costs both a bit higher and lower in the area, but not by much. There is a $450 family limit. So we tell them to have a bunch of kids in sports.
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Post by poweriguy on Aug 26, 2007 21:39:53 GMT -6
The last school I coached at, the school board would most likely drop football before they started charging kids.
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Post by senatorblutarsky on Aug 27, 2007 9:25:26 GMT -6
We used to have a $10 transportation fee. The board eliminated that, so our kids pay nothing.
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Post by trojan on Sept 9, 2007 15:41:23 GMT -6
Our athletic fees went up this year to $35. For $35, they get BFS twice a week from April through mid-July, a two week offensive camp, five weeks of preseaon practice, and transportation to away games. This is for my middle school, by the way. Not bad, huh?  |
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Post by gacoach on Sept 10, 2007 7:41:15 GMT -6
Our athletic fees went up this year to $35. For $35, they get BFS twice a week from April through mid-July, a two week offensive camp, five weeks of preseaon practice, and transportation to away games. This is for my middle school, by the way. Not bad, huh? Not at all. After reading all the posts I get the impression that we are "unique". |
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Post by chs96 on Sept 14, 2007 12:35:24 GMT -6
Don't your states allow team boosters? I don't keep up with all the latest HS info. But, in Texas, I've never heard of a single school charging a player a penny- definitely not in the days that I played. Not only were we not charged, we ate at some pretty nice restaurants in some towns. i think that SLC and Highland Park do charge....i am not sure though. Also...i have heard of Permian charging....i dont think that it will trickle down to smaller schools....but it is possible. |
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