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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Has anyone asked them?[/quote]

The SJC administration must be well aware of what is going on in these programs. 5 students left in the middle of the year because they were not being allowed to play on the school baseball team because they did not pay to play in the coach’s travel program. These 5 are now all at other schools. At our school you have to sign a contract obligating you to pay tuition for the entire year even if your student leaves mid year. I’d think in the case at SJC, the school had to let the parents out of the contract, or the parents refused to pay given the circumstances. HOS’s know about these kinds of things. I’d like to know what kind of response these parents got from the HOS/administration.[/quote]

I don’t know how tuition obligations were handled for these 5 (yes SJC has a similar contract) but can say with certainty that the president of the school knows what’s going on in the program. He’s close o the coach. Baseball is not really part of the rest of the athletic program at SJC. They have their own clubhouse (other teams use shared locker rooms), they have their own strength/training guy who is not an employee of the school (and unlike other athletes at SJC they have to pay for their year round training), and they even have their own medical/pt guy (not employee of the school, not the school’s athletic training staff that works with all other teams; presumably this is also an extra cost for players’ families). When my kid was there, he said the baseball guys didn’t socialize with other students/athletes either.

There were some comments directed at the outgoing AD earlier in this post, but I’m not sure he had anything to do with the baseball program and it’s morally/legally questionable practices.[/quote]

Sounds like they should be paying the players instead of the reverse![/quote]

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