Mandatory uniform purchases every 2 years?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, the slides are horrible looking. They also said if you didn’t buy them, you would still be charged $50….

Wow…what was the rationale for this? Were kids alrdy wearing slides and they thought they should match bc it’s unslightly?

The director’s wife likely designed and takes a cut. When something is out of the norm (mandatory slides) someone is on the take. Isn’t that illegal - charging for something even if you don’t receive a good or service - under UCC?

Your contract specifies that you have to buy the uniform, not that you have to want it or even choose to receive it. Clubs either get a cut of uniform sales or the get paid a flat fee but have to guarantee a baseline of sales. Our club as done it both ways with different suppliers. Either way, you kid is forced to buy stuff they don't want.

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Anonymous wrote:Sponsors go right to club pockets and don't reduce the cost for families at all.

It absolutely reduces family costs. Do you think family payments are enough to cover all the club's expenses and that they would be breaking even if not for the sponsors? Without the sponsorships you would be paying even more.

Also, when other businesses do extra things to make more profits, we don't say they are taking advantage of their customers. If a restaurant sells hats and t-shirts to make additional revenue streams do you say they are sticking it to their food customers? I don't get why clubs are the bad guys when they are just another business trying to make a profit that we are free to choose to buy their product or not. They aren't tricking us or hiding costs.

I think they all make PROFIT without the sponsorships. Sponsors are just gravy. Our club has a million teams per age group and its expensive.

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If we are venting about uniforms, white shorts for adolescent girls playing game at fields with just port a potties and no way to wash their hands after dealing with tampons etc is completely idiotic. Why do clubs insist on white shorts when black is so much more practical.

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Anonymous wrote:Sponsors go right to club pockets and don't reduce the cost for families at all.

It absolutely reduces family costs. Do you think family payments are enough to cover all the club's expenses and that they would be breaking even if not for the sponsors? Without the sponsorships you would be paying even more.

Also, when other businesses do extra things to make more profits, we don't say they are taking advantage of their customers. If a restaurant sells hats and t-shirts to make additional revenue streams do you say they are sticking it to their food customers? I don't get why clubs are the bad guys when they are just another business trying to make a profit that we are free to choose to buy their product or not. They aren't tricking us or hiding costs.

I think they all make PROFIT without the sponsorships. Sponsors are just gravy. Our club has a million teams per age group and its expensive.

The operative word here is “think”. You don’t actually know how much the club makes. There are many expenses you don’t account for. Sure there are some clubs doing well but there wouldn’t be so many clubs merging/folding/rebranding every year if they were all making a huge profit

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Anonymous wrote:If we are venting about uniforms, white shorts for adolescent girls playing game at fields with just port a potties and no way to wash their hands after dealing with tampons etc is completely idiotic. Why do clubs insist on white shorts when black is so much more practical.

Yes that was the one positive about having to buy new uniforms this year. Our club got rid of the white shorts for girls.

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Anonymous wrote:If we are venting about uniforms, white shorts for adolescent girls playing game at fields with just port a potties and no way to wash their hands after dealing with tampons etc is completely idiotic. Why do clubs insist on white shorts when black is so much more practical.

When a group of moms approached our club last year they acted like they didn’t even realize it was a problem. (Men). They listened though, and got rid of the white shorts.

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Anonymous wrote:If we are venting about uniforms, white shorts for adolescent girls playing game at fields with just port a potties and no way to wash their hands after dealing with tampons etc is completely idiotic. Why do clubs insist on white shorts when black is so much more practical.

When a group of moms approached our club last year they acted like they didn’t even realize it was a problem. (Men). They listened though, and got rid of the white shorts.

Plus a million on this. I politely raised the issue a couple years ago and the men in charge had no clue, but to their credit, immediately agreed once a brought it up and were a bit horrified that they hadn’t recognized the problem.

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Anonymous wrote:If we are venting about uniforms, white shorts for adolescent girls playing game at fields with just port a potties and no way to wash their hands after dealing with tampons etc is completely idiotic. Why do clubs insist on white shorts when black is so much more practical.

When a group of moms approached our club last year they acted like they didn’t even realize it was a problem. (Men). They listened though, and got rid of the white shorts.

It's not just men. DD played for a club run by a woman that had a white on white uniform

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Anonymous wrote:If we are venting about uniforms, white shorts for adolescent girls playing game at fields with just port a potties and no way to wash their hands after dealing with tampons etc is completely idiotic. Why do clubs insist on white shorts when black is so much more practical.

When a group of moms approached our club last year they acted like they didn’t even realize it was a problem. (Men). They listened though, and got rid of the white shorts.

It's not just men. DD played for a club run by a woman that had a white on white uniform

Bethesda Girls have had white shorts for aeons, even during the (past) women-run era.

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grateful the white shorts are gone at mclean.

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Anonymous wrote:LMAO at the absolute HORROR of a travel practice looking like a lowly peasant-y rec practice due to (gasp) a lack of matching practice jerseys.

If you are paying 3k a year for travel and your practice looks like a rec team practice, you have bigger problems than cutesy matching outfits.

I'm OK if the kids wear whatever to practice. Just learn to be good players. Even for games, just use pinnies with numbers on them to save on cost. As a parent, I hate being nickled and dimed for my kid to play on a club team. I hate the mandatory backpack purchases and all the kids needing the backpack embroidered with their name on them. I hate the mandatory tournament selected hotels. Whoa, mandatory slides. I've never seen that before but I'm sure after 1 club does this, others see another mandatory item to tack on.

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The only requirement should be one uniform jersey shirt. If they play another team with the same color, they can wear numbered pinnies

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The best is when your child immediately cuts the feet out of the brand new kit socks. So now you have grip socks, tiny shin guards cuz of Jack Grealish, shin guard sleeves or tape, the sad remains of the $15 socks you just bought. Like WTF is going on down there really? Its an over complicated mess below the knees.

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Anonymous wrote:The best is when your child immediately cuts the feet out of the brand new kit socks. So now you have grip socks, tiny shin guards cuz of Jack Grealish, shin guard sleeves or tape, the sad remains of the $15 socks you just bought. Like WTF is going on down there really? Its an over complicated mess below the knees.

Hahaha. Yes so true. A lot of the parents here advocating for pennie uniforms (or ad hoc-ironing extra numbers to a recycled jersey) will flip out when they find out about grip socks.

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Anonymous wrote:The only requirement should be one uniform jersey shirt. If they play another team with the same color, they can wear numbered pinnies

Where is the fun in that? Kids like to wear a full kit. Sure, kids don’t NEED it but why not? They don’t need to do lots of stuff - elaborate halloween costumes, room decorations, fashionable clothes, Taylor Swift concerts. But it’s fun so we do it.