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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Parents are paying thousands of $$$ to be on a mediocre travel soccer team. This is nothing like it used to be even just a few years ago where just to make a travel team was super competitive.[/quote]

Seriously, why do you care how other people spend their money?  Everyone has their own priorities.  DH and I make a lot of money, we have one kid with learning disabilities, and travel soccer has been a great way for him to get exercise 4 times a week, feel confident about himself, and make friends on his team through increased repeated contact with this peer group.  [/quote]

People will defend travel sports no matter what. The comment above is absolutely right. Less money and time and more fun.[/quote]

Wait a second. Rec costs about $200 per year ($100 per season), with a parent volunteer coach who may or may not know anything about soccer or dealing with kids. Travel soccer literally has eight times the field time per year compared to Rec soccer, which in theory would cost $1600 ($200 x 8) if run under the Rec program.  So for an extra couple hundred bucks and team fees, you get professional coaches, better fields (usually), much better competition, access to futsal and travel camps, etc.  So how is travel a rip off compared to rec?[/quote]

I think we are being a little loose with the term professional coach. A former player/recent college graduate who does coaching part time to supplement income would not fall into my definition of professional. The reality is clubs usually have a handful of professional coaches (coaching the top teams) most of the other coaches aren’t any different than parents. This line about travel providing professional coaches is mostly BS. Better fields only come about because clubs don’t provide good fields to the rec league because they want parents to pay more for the travel programs. Competition is t always better in travel-in fact it can be a lot worse than rec. Travel being an opportunity to spend more on camps and futsal…please. What we need is a club that actually cares about the kids and focuses their attention on them instead of trying to enrich their staff members. Some of the oversight boards around here need to be overhauled.[/quote]

And I think you are being a little loose in comparing Rex to travel at all. Rec is little more than a social club with kids who simply are just not good at soccer but might have been. [/quote]

Most of the travel teams in the area are also basically social clubs who’s kids aren’t good players. At least the rec parents know not to drop a couple grand on the same product.[/quote]

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