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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From: https://www.novabaseballmagazine.com/news/quick-hits-guyers-comeback-begins-in-puerto-rico

And thus we have another example of the many differences between public and private school athletics.[/quote]

This irks me...Pathetic.[/quote]

Um ... in public schools, taxpayer money pays the greedy coaches.

Big difference. I don’t care in the same way if they’re doing their unseemly stuff with private - not public - funds.  They’re scum either way but one is worse.[/quote]

Private schools benefit from taxpayer funds also—among other things from the tax exemption they receive due to their not-for-profit status. If they are using the school as a vehicle to personally profit through club programs, then that is a violation of their not-for-profit status and the public trust.[/quote]

I agree with this point. All the Catholic high schools are part of ADW and I haven't seen a separate set of financial statements for individual schools. Religious organizations don't have to disclose much to anybody. I think in this case the athletic department takes advantage of the inherent lack of transparency.  Running separate for profit programs under the auspices of the religious umbrella is not ethical in my opinion, and those programs should be separated so they can be taxed.[/quote]

This is a great post. Having some religious affiliation (any) means they don’t have to file an annual tax return. It’s a Petri dish for fraud. And it means no accountability. For example, wcac rules prohibit athletic scholarships, but St. John’s, DeMatha and Gonzaga - the conference big boys - give plenty of them, many full. The smaller schools in the conference can’t compete consistently. It’s a shame and wcac is a joke - their rules mean nothing.[/quote]

More than not having to file an annual tax return, churches do not even have to file information returns. Information returns (990s) are publicly available and required for non-profit organizations (not churches) and they provide a lot of detailed information. ADW and it's schools publish some information but it's not detailed and usually focuses on fundraising. It's impossible to know what goes on with their operations. Only God knows.[/quote]

That seems crazy that a school can avoid financial disclosures, information returns, etc. simply because they have some religious affiliation. So while St. Johns or Gonzaga or DeMatha can avoid any sort of transparency, schools like Bullis, Flint Hill, Potomac, etc. cannot? Why would the IRS (and the public) care about how exempt schools in the latter group use their funds, etc. but not those in the former group? And if all of this is going on at St Johns the way posters have said, how would the IRS even find out about it if they have no disclosure requirements? Religious or not, it sounds like what they're doing is illegal. Presumably, if Bullis, Potomac or Flint Hill was doing what St Johns is doing, the IRS would be aware. How can it be set up in a way where St Johns is allowed to get away with it?[/quote]

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