NCSL-Rec Schedules: Why the delay in posting?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:$250 for rec soccer is crazy!!!! Who charges that much? Someone is taking off the top.

Gotta subsidize the travel teams. We're $150 for an NCSL rec team that practices twice a week on turf

How come some NCSL rec teams get turf for practices and some don't. How does the county award the turf space?

Clubs that care about rec as well as travel. Clubs apply for permits then divvy up fields to their teams. Clubs that care about rec teams don't put them on terrible fields in favor of travel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:250x16 players = $4000.
I don't think the county even charges for grass field practices, but lets say $10 a player. Then $10 a player for turf for games.
The coach works for free. Say $25 in admin costs per kid (which seems high for rec). Then $150 to ncsl per team for scheduling. Rec pays refs worse than travel, so maybe $100 for four home games for refs.
That leaves the "nonprofit" with a profit of $2700ish *per team.*

Where does the money go!!!???

A $2700 profit *per rec team* is wild.

[Anonymous]

Very disrespectful to family and the volunteer coach's schedules to not have the schedule out 10 days before the games begin. If it was all volunteers doing their best around their full time jobs, that's a different story. They can get the club side schedule out 6+ weeks in advance.

[Anonymous]

disorganization is often why people quit rec and go to club

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very disrespectful to family and the volunteer coach's schedules to not have the schedule out 10 days before the games begin. If it was all volunteers doing their best around their full time jobs, that's a different story. They can get the club side schedule out 6+ weeks in advance.

SFL quit doing this thankless job and NCSL took it on more as a charity act just to keep the SFL concept from folding when the SFL organizers folded.

IF the NCSL were not doing it you would have 50 different clubs volunteers trying to coordinate on their own and the landscape would be quite different

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very disrespectful to family and the volunteer coach's schedules to not have the schedule out 10 days before the games begin. If it was all volunteers doing their best around their full time jobs, that's a different story. They can get the club side schedule out 6+ weeks in advance.

SFL quit doing this thankless job and NCSL took it on more as a charity act just to keep the SFL concept from folding when the SFL organizers folded.

IF the NCSL were not doing it you would have 50 different clubs volunteers trying to coordinate on their own and the landscape would be quite different

If it faded away a lot of the clubs would have to raise travel dues to make of for money they squees out of rec players (look at what PP is paying for NCSL rec)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Very disrespectful to family and the volunteer coach's schedules to not have the schedule out 10 days before the games begin. If it was all volunteers doing their best around their full time jobs, that's a different story. They can get the club side schedule out 6+ weeks in advance.

SFL quit doing this thankless job and NCSL took it on more as a charity act just to keep the SFL concept from folding when the SFL organizers folded.

IF the NCSL were not doing it you would have 50 different clubs volunteers trying to coordinate on their own and the landscape would be quite different

How is it a charity act when they are charginig $150 per team sinply to push out a schedule? That seems quite lucrative honestly.

[Anonymous]

I think posting schedules one week before games start is really late. For a professional scheduling service that charges per team. They have a full time employee for just rec teams.

[Anonymous]

We have had the club side schedules for a really long time now. I get aggravated waiting for schedules, I would be irate too.

[Anonymous]

Ok, now this is getting really annoying.

[Anonymous]

What day do the games start?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What day do the games start?

Next Saturday (7 days from now).

I sat down with my calendar to finally sort our fall family schedule out, pulled up their site....and still nothing!? My DH coaches a rec team in this league and also coaches our younger child's lax team, so really, we need the schedule and so do hundreds of other families! Incredibly dismissive and inconsiderate to the rec side families to be this slow and lazy getting it up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you and some of your friends could volunteer to take it over and handle all the Schedules and teams. You could make sure everyone knew their schedule a month out and not drive very far. I'm sure that wouldn't take much time at all.

I would totally take this job over for $150 per team, which is NCSL's rec pricing.

[Anonymous]

This is one way for NCSL to tell rec families where they stand

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is one way for NCSL to tell rec families where they stand

They will happily take their fees though!