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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a little bit of a catch-22. There definitely ends up being some favoritism whether intentional or sub-conscious for kids who take the extra lessons with coaches. On the other hand, outside of the Director of a program, and even then, [b]I'm not sure how much those folks are actually taking home, [/b]I'm sure that the coach of any particular youth team, even if paid, is not making a ton, and is often more of a stipend.  Being able to make a little extra giving lessons is pretty normal across the DMV. I know a lot of folks who are cobbling together a living coaching, doing lessons in the morning, and then working a 9-5 if they have one, or another more 'normal' part-time gig. I don't begrudge them being able to earn a little extra, especially with the cost of living in this area. [/quote]

It's not a mystery. You could just check to see how much the person in question (Keegan) is "taking home" from MYHA because it's posted on the tax filing I linked to earlier. I'll save you the effort--it's $80k.

But I'm not sure you're a hockey parent either, nor that you read the article at the top of this thread, because otherwise you'd realize that the scenario you describe is not what happens in youth hockey around here. You're correct that there are numerous modestly-paid coaches in the area (of high school teams, or clubs like Tri-City). But they are not running clinics at scale like Keegan is. Nor are they typically doing private lessons in their down-time. The ice is simply not available for these area coaches to use for that purpose. Plus Keegan is--if memory serves--at tryouts for all age groups and deciding the placement for teams he will not coach. But he still can, and apparently does, favor players of different ages who take his classes.
  
Keegan is not actually a paid coach. He's paid by MYHA to be Director of Hockey Operations and I suppose as part of that, he has taken on a team to coach, just like all the other (volunteer) coaches at MYHA. Because MYHA doesn't pay coaches--they rely on the free labor of parent volunteers. At Tri-City (and I don't know about the others), coaches are paid, typically non-parents. Tri-City fees are not higher for players IIRC, so it's not like MYHA uses volunteer parent coaches to save players money. Meanwhile, he also runs the fee-extra NBN hockey classes/clinics/camps.

The situation with Keegan is problematic in two ways. First is that it is somewhat of a monopoly serving the MYHA families; the second is that when it comes to team selection, the people who choose to pay for his company's services are (by the looks for things) favored for their patronage rather than skill, despite the fact that the club runs tryouts (that imply that he selects based on skill).

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