Anonymous wrote:SYC parent here - coaches are underpaid. The parents will pay for the coaches' hotel, airfare and daily meals for tournaments. And if you are on the top team, parents will take care of the coach so their kids can have play time. JR the 2008 just posted on his IG he got a red Dodge Charger SRT as a rental while in GA for the Capelli showcase. He also leverage his team to promote his private training sessions. Half the kids that sign up for his group session is on his current team and only signs up so they can have a starting position.

Anonymous wrote:SYC parent here - coaches are underpaid. The parents will pay for the coaches' hotel, airfare and daily meals for tournaments. And if you are on the top team, parents will take care of the coach so their kids can have play time. JR the 2008 just posted on his IG he got a red Dodge Charger SRT as a rental while in GA for the Capelli showcase. He also leverage his team to promote his private training sessions. Half the kids that sign up for his group session is on his current team and only signs up so they can have a starting position.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not hard to calculate.

Look at your club fees - do not include specific additions for tournament costs. Your coach gets about half of those fees. The rest goes to admin costs, equipment costs, field rental, etc. if you are paying $3,000 for the year the coach gets $1,500. Have 15 kids on the team? Great. The coach gets $22,500. It works to about $20 an hour - maybe less.

This is why I laugh at all the posts saying travel sports are a money making racket, coaches/teams just raking it in. My son desperately wants coach for a living, or at least do something related to his sport (like run one of the training centers). But it’s a hardscrabble way to make a living, and unless you own a very successful company you don’t make a living wage, let alone a comfortable middle class income. He’s watched his training facility go under this fall, and it’s sobering.

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Anonymous wrote:SYC parent here - coaches are underpaid. The parents will pay for the coaches' hotel, airfare and daily meals for tournaments. And if you are on the top team, parents will take care of the coach so their kids can have play time. JR the 2008 just posted on his IG he got a red Dodge Charger SRT as a rental while in GA for the Capelli showcase. He also leverage his team to promote his private training sessions. Half the kids that sign up for his group session is on his current team and only signs up so they can have a starting position.

I'm sure JR paid for the car on his own and if he didn't it's possible he got upgraded by rental spot. It's not fair to assume that parents were required to pay for that. Hotel for out of town tournaments is expected. Meals is a maybe but not for local tournaments. At a team dinner a coaches meal is usually covered by all the parents which doesn't come out to a more than a couple of bucks each.

Anonymous wrote:Sure, you are right. He probably did pay for the upgrade on his own with all that extra money from his side hustle - selling designer inspired jewelry and private training sessions.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SYC parent here - coaches are underpaid. The parents will pay for the coaches' hotel, airfare and daily meals for tournaments. And if you are on the top team, parents will take care of the coach so their kids can have play time. JR the 2008 just posted on his IG he got a red Dodge Charger SRT as a rental while in GA for the Capelli showcase. He also leverage his team to promote his private training sessions. Half the kids that sign up for his group session is on his current team and only signs up so they can have a starting position.

I'm sure JR paid for the car on his own and if he didn't it's possible he got upgraded by rental spot. It's not fair to assume that parents were required to pay for that. Hotel for out of town tournaments is expected. Meals is a maybe but not for local tournaments. At a team dinner a coaches meal is usually covered by all the parents which doesn't come out to a more than a couple of bucks each.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not hard to calculate.

Look at your club fees - do not include specific additions for tournament costs. Your coach gets about half of those fees. The rest goes to admin costs, equipment costs, field rental, etc. if you are paying $3,000 for the year the coach gets $1,500. Have 15 kids on the team? Great. The coach gets $22,500. It works to about $20 an hour - maybe less.

This is why I laugh at all the posts saying travel sports are a money making racket, coaches/teams just raking it in. My son desperately wants coach for a living, or at least do something related to his sport (like run one of the training centers). But it’s a hardscrabble way to make a living, and unless you own a very successful company you don’t make a living wage, let alone a comfortable middle class income. He’s watched his training facility go under this fall, and it’s sobering.

The TDs, not the coaches are who is raking it in. The poor coaches aren't making much. Alexandria's TD was making $350k/year.

Anonymous wrote:Agree. I've never seen parents having to pony up outside of fees for anything coach related. Personally, as a parent, I don't want to have to figure that stuff out. Build it into the coaches' contract and just send me the bill.