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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"What's normal?" or "what's acceptable?" Reading through these posts I have no doubt that there are lots of schools where coaches show favoritism to players who play for their club/travel/AAU teams. So that seems normal, even if it also seems wrong. But some posters are describing something different about the St Johns baseball program. If the coach there is in fact not letting kids play high school baseball (as opposed to starting other kids over them) because they don't play for his travel program in the offseason, then that is not normal or acceptable. Can anyone confirm that this is really what's happening? It's hard for me to imagine it is.[/quote]

I can confirm that the St. John’s baseball coach, with approval from the St. John’s athletic director and administration, has told several players that they are not allowed to play baseball at St. John’s because they did not pay the coach to play on his summer travel team.  I understand that there are other players who chose to not pay the coach for his side business and are awaiting their fate.   I am told the administration is fully aware of the baseball coach’s personal financial requirement to be eligible to play baseball at St. John’s and have no issues with it.  Someone figured out that the yearly costs for the coach’s outside baseball team is in excess of $5,000 so multiply that by 50 or 60 kids and you get a pretty penny in the coach’s pocket.[/quote]

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