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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Easy solution have every MoCo club that uses Muldoons add 2 additional roster spots for each team in the entire organizations. Take those two spots fees on average $2k per year and dedicate it to put quality turf or grass on the farms add in 2 more tournaments with all proceeds going as well and  over a 3-5 year period should payoff  the fields. [/quote]

You're on the right track but you're numbers are probably an order of magnitude low.

It's amazing to me that otherwise intelligent people don't seem to be able to grasp the fact that athletic fields cost money. Good fields cost a lot of money. If you look at what field time costs, how much field time a program needs, and what parents are willing to pay, for the most part youth sports programs are not sustainable unless they have someone else footing the bill for their fields. That someone else is usually the local government.

If you live someplace where the local government is unwilling to pay the cost of providing facilities for youth sports -- or more specifically, your sport of choice -- then the choice is going to be playing on poor fields or not playing at all. [/quote]

Please you could fund the field improvement over 10 or 20 years. The usage fees paid by the clubs for these field are very high-ie you could build or redo a the field every 3-5 years.[/quote]

Take a look a the economics of the Soccerplex. Their fees are high but they teeter on the brink of viability. And the land was donated. And they're run by a non-profit with no need to return profit to investors.

Athletic fields are expensive to build and maintain. Youth sports that are funded entirely by fees paid by families are going to have a hard time generating enough revenue to pay for them.

If you look at places where youth sports have nice facilities, it's because they're subsidized by someone else -- the local government, an affiliated school, or a sponsoring professional league. For the most part youth soccer in the US doesn't have that. [/quote]

Then explain how FC Frederick  is building a 10 field complex and Toca Jrs are building a 5 field complex in Frederick County riiiiiight over the Moco lines. [/quote]

And SAC's facility in Columbia.  I spoke with a director there and they funded it with tournament fees.  And they outsource their tournaments (which is why they run so much better than Bethesda's) so not all the registration fees go to SAC.  Really makes you wonder where BSC is spending all its tournament fees.[/quote]

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