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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this going on in the SJC football program too?   Just curious.  Is this the result of Kevin Plank's desire to have a sports powerhouse at SJC?  Wow, this school really has its priorities backwards.  So so so so so glad we decided to send our child elsewhere.[/quote]

Baseball around here is full of rich kids from McLean or Bethesda.  They are prime targets for the pay-to-play gang. Same with lax, and to a lesser degree soccer. Football is a very different demographic, as is basketball. There the sleazy coaches make money being gatekeepers to scouts and schools and shoe companies.   [/quote]

This wouldn't work in Football or Basketball because AAU teams that are nationally ranked get sponsored. Coaches are looking for Nike, UA, Adidas, and etc. sponsorship which cover the cost of everything. How do you get ranked....by having the best players. Yes, basketball and football have a different demographic but, I think you underestimate the cost of having your child play AAU. [b]I have friends who children play on top teams and with travel cost they came out of pocket $20k last year each.[/b] Tournaments in every part of the US over the summer including Las Vegas for almost 2 weeks. [/quote]

What team was this?  My brief experience of a Nike sponsored team was that sponsorship $ paid for transportation, most meals, 4 to a room hotel, tournament entry fees,  shoes, uniforms, etc.   You can have out of pocket expenses if you chose to travel as a family and stay together in a room in the team hotel or chose to fly to some destinations where the team takes a van (e.g. Atlanta), but $20K per kid for an April-July high school AAU season seems like a LOT.[/quote]

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