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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools that invite third parties in to operate sports teams have an obligation to ensure those third parties behave in ways that align with the institutions values and in ways that don’t exploit the school, students, applicants, or parents, financially or otherwise.  [/quote]

You folks are truly lost. There is no nationally recognized coach that does not have their own side AAU, soccer club, and/or camp. Anyone worth hiring that has a track record will have these “conflicts” as you call them. This is not pay to play. The coach is more familiar with kids he has coached. If your child is not coachable or maybe the coaching staff does not have confidence in their ability they will not he that much playing time. [/quote]

My son's experience of being coached by a nationally recognized coach was that the coach recommended that DS play for the AAU program that he was affiliated with (which happened to be sponsored by the same shoe company that sponsors the high school team) but didn't require that kids play for it.  In fact, the coach pulled key players from the school into a completely different (essentially fake) AAU team to play together for some AAU tournaments.  This was not a money making venture - there were no fees nor uniforms, the kids just wore ratty old jerseys that the coach had and entry fees were paid by the school team budget.  Instead, this was a mechanism for getting around league rules about how much the school team could practice together and how much they could be coached by the school coach in the offseason.  In addition to violating high school team rules about how much kids could play together in the offseason, I think this violated tournament rules about kids being on multiple rosters (DS played for two different teams in one tournament -- his 15U AAU team and the coach's 17U team).  But, this was not pay to play.

Basketball may be different than other sports (because the very top teams are entirely paid for by sponsorships and free to kids) but I've never seen the kind of pay to play that OP describes.[/quote]

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