Annual Out-of-Pocket Cost for ECNL or GA in High School
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Anonymous
those fees for local tourneys are for the whole team. It's more like 300-400 out of pocket. Jeff Cup, NC, SC. No more than 300 a tourney per player. ECNL showcases - we paid 600 plane tickets and 200 / night hotel per kid. Not close to 5K ! |
Anonymous
The moment you stop this industrial complex of pay to play you will see a plethora of coaches that “love the game” quit in a heartbeat. Starting with yours truly. Now, extend my check please. I’ll throw some cones on the field and recycle a YouTube lesson. Then I’ll tell you your weakling has potential and voila. The mill keeps turning, and turning, and turning. Oh also, this whole college BS doesn’t help y’all. But, it’s America. |
Anonymous
| Again you have to try really hard to spend $10k on ECNL soccer. My kids played ECNL for three years. Starter. Every game. Top scorer too. We’ve paid no more than $5.5K. But there are a lot of folks with disposable income around here that want their kid to do the things they couldn’t so I guess if you sign up for futsal and private training and every BS ID clinic you can spend it. |
Anonymous
So yes you could theoretically drive every day to Jeff Cup but let’s assume you don’t. At older ages these are 3 day show cases. So 3 nights in hotel (min 400 dollars). I tank on gas for suv (100). Tournament fees (100). Meals (100)… |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Last year was not a real year for ECNL due to COVID. (Not sure if your kid played last year or in the 1990s but my kid did.) Cost were significantly reduced due to limited travel but even so we easily spent 5-6K last year. This year we are spending more. |
Anonymous
I wasn't talking about driving back and forth every day. 2 nights hotel is under $300, Richmond is only 100 miles away. Let's say you get 25 miles per gallon, you are using 8 gallons up and back. Maybe add another 4 for driving back and forth to the fields so that is 12 gallons at $3.50 is $42. Meals might be $100, but similar to gas, if you stayed home the weekend you would be eating and using gas so that $150 is probably half that in added costs. Tournament fees are included in our yearly fee. So I stand by my estimate that two tournaments within driving distance is UNDER $1,000. |
Anonymous
| You didn’t add the cost of my wine. (And don’t say what I’d be drinkin if I was at home alone! You don’t know me!) |
Anonymous
Now add up the cost of two nights in North Carolina because that tournament was included too. |
Anonymous
Yes, the UNDER $1,000 number was for TWO tournaments. Please read better. |
Anonymous
No matter how you slice it, you are looking at min 10K per year for all costs associated with playing ECNL in HS. |
Anonymous
Definitely not minimum $10,000. I would say $6 to $8k would be normal. |
Anonymous
| If this is financially stressful, don't do it. The league is designed for families with the disposable income to afford all the fees and travel. |
Anonymous
I travel a lot for work and prices this year for everything travel related is much higher. Hotels, restaurant meals, gas, uber, all up significantly this year. I was told rental car prices are up at least 75% this year and that is if you can find one. I have been to a couple places it was not possible to get a rental car, and 1 trip where I did get one for a week it cost more than 3 of our plane tickets combined. At some point this will have to impact travel sports leagues and how much people are willing to travel to play a game. |
Anonymous
3 pages of back and forth BS between who is more right about what costs more… No wonder this pay to play system is garbage. |