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One last note, I have sat on three different boards involving soccer and money has never been a driving factor for recruiting and retaining players. It has always been about increasing the club size so that economics of scale could allow the affordibity of better training. Such as being able to hire a full time DOC that has the sole intention of training the club players, or building lights for fields so players can train in the dark, or aquire more fields so that players are not training on top of eachother, the list goes on. I do not know a single board member that makes money from being on the board. Most boards members donate a lot of time and then turn around and pay the club to train their children the same fees as everyone else. Saying that clubs only do it for the money is just pure lazy and requires no thinking.



Holdup there sparky!! Before you go name calling think about what you have read here, and the many other threads concerning clubs and issues involing money. I have never said they only do it for the money, I said that money was a underlying factor concering the decisions they make reguarding tryouts and team formation. I know many parent you spend lots of time and effort with no compensation to make thing better for thier children and who do it for the kids not the money. The same could be said of many coaches who do it fo the love of the game and kids not the small amount of money they make.
Now here is the however.... Even you in your post come out and support the statement that money is a driveing factor! Reread the quote!! You talk about how important money is for the club to grow and offer better products for the kids. Remember that your the one saying your board made decisions about growing the club for "economy of scale" but that it was not about "recruiting and retaining" that statement in itself is in conflict???
Before you attack those questioning the system as "lazy" think about what you just said because it supports the concept that money underlies most club decisions! Like I said even "Non-profits" have to turn a few dollars to exist.