Booster Club Funding Per Player (grade 10-12)

How did they do it? Please share, need some ideas.

I'd give my left nut to get what you do

Ha!
$5000 budget to cover all equipment.
New uniforms every four years.
No booster program.

I don't even know what I would do with $100,000

LOL, you don't need to spend that type of money on uni's- you can but you don't NEED to. We are getting new uni's and it'll run us about $200 per set- game pants and home/away jersey. Nothing fancy, non custom, quality uni's with other money spent on things to help you develop players. You can spend a ton on uni'sif you want but I think it's silly to do so unless you have more money then you know what to do with.

Are these the same uniforms Nike makes for Oregon or what? Good lord...$750 a set, I need pictures of these.

Who buys that stuff every year?

I came in with an $11,000 debt. The school board gave me $2000 to buy some essentials. But other than that.. we are barely getting buy.

Not really complaining, and I understand this may seem like a lot to smaller programs. But it's not in our area. We have two neighboring schools, one public and one private, that I am certain raise 6 figures annually.

One of the schools raised over $60,000 just on their auction.

Yes, we are not hurting, but our weight room and facilities are nothing like theirs. I'm certain that there are dozens of coaches on this baord that have BC's that raise over $50K.

I am a mixture of jealous and pissed. Here is my situation

We are a new school. . . this is our third year overall--just got our staduim. The school (ASB) gets all gate money (this pays for officials and part of transportation for all sports

Our Boosters is General sports boosters---not football. They run our snack bar and get all profits. This is their main source of income, although they do sell "school spirit wear". Their "slogan" is "we support ALL sports".

As a three sport athlete in highschool, I am all for other sports. But I don't have to tell you guys the difference between a program with 140 athletes in it wearing $800 worth of equipment and another program with 45 kids who only need $80 worth of equipment.


We get nothing from the school (0)

Anything we want from boosters, we have to submit a "proposal" to ask for money. Being this was my first year
I asked for less than I knew we needed/deserved. They gave me half of the original 6,000 I asked for totaling $3,000.

I know they made about 20k from our snack bar. They actually had enough money to put $7,000 in a CD AND give the Senior class $700----They are not supposed to do this.

We end up having to fundraise to meet general needs. They do not help out at all with fundraisers, so it is basically me (and a few assistants) doing everything! I have to sell apparel out of my classroom for crying out loud!

This was my first year as Varsity H.C. I should mention that the previous H.C. was fired two days before practice was set to begin, and as the J.V. coach, I took it. I endured all hell this year, only to be met with even more.

This set up was fine the first 2-3 years because everything was new. However, we are starting to see major needs.

If it doesn't change I will be done

I cannot believe the money that some of you guys are talking about! We sell gold cards, put on a summer camp, and take in concession money for the JV/Frosh games. We are a school of a little more than 1000.

Next year we will loose the concessions as an overall boosters organization is being created, which I am skeptical about: with the school providing football less than 1500, is this a way to replace the school's obligation?

I would love to hear about some of the fundraisers some of you guys are doing. Raising even 5 figures would blow my mind!

Well, you said Uniforms... and by definition, thats cloth. And not all that stuff can be on a five year cycle. Your telling me your not going to turn game pants into practice pants when you get new game pants.