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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you can't run the clock or keep the book at one basketball game all season, don't sign your kid up for rec basketball. These are basic jobs someone needs to do for the game to happen, and your $85 fee does not cover hiring the jobs out. 
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Then *say* that at signup.

Say, parents who don’t have time to score keep or time keep at basketball games are not welcome to sign up their kids. We won’t sign them up. We aren’t doing it to upset you by not meeting your unmet expectations no, we do not have time to do unscheduled volunteer work when it best suits you.
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This particular example is common sense, though. Anyone who has ever been to a basketball game knows there is a clock and fouls are tracked. Who exactly do you think will be doing these tasks for your 12 year old's game for $90 a season, if not you, the parents? [/quote]

It’s really not though. Two of my kids’ activities are very explicit about the involvement required of the parents. We are expected as a family to volunteer x hours per year. It’s in the registration paperwork, crystal clear. If basketball requires this then they need to be explicit and send out signups throughout the season to make sure all games are adequately staffed. Making assumptions is what gets these leagues in trouble.[/quote]

Who is creating all these signups and managing them? A volunteer who is already overloaded with all the other aspecrs of running a league.[/quote]

No, the paid people who run the programs. it’s their job.[/quote]

What paid people? No one is paid to run rec basketball leagues.[/quote]

I didn’t say my examples were rec basketball. But if rec basketball can’t make it work by charging pennies and relying heavily on non existent volunteers then it doesn’t deserve to survive. People have more money than time and will pay for convenience of well run leagues that can hold a game without chasing people around to their cars.[/quote]

And the families who can't pay or don't want a 3 day+ a week committment don't get to play basketball? Only the ones who can afford and want AAU? Fun.[/quote]

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