>>[Big Daddy] Someone had a post out there awhiles back about USYSA raising fees and this being a bad thing regarding increasing participation. A sampling of our fees.....
Club fees/Team Fees: $1500
Family tournament travel: $2500
(based on $500 per tournamnet x 5 tournaments)
Super Y $ 500
Lundy Camp $ 650
Additional Summer Training $ 300
$5450.....doesn't include contributions to Club fundraising or soccer related charitable donations. Nor does it include the 1-2 3 v 3 tournaments he'll play in, or indoor, or anything like that. Simply, this is what we spend for our son to play "at the highest level".
Does SCYSA paying an extra $1-2 per player in fees to USYSA really keep anyone out of the mix?<<
It might help if you take this as a percentage of fees. Your argument absolutely is valid when viewed from a select perspective; however, from a recreation perspective the SCYSA/USYSA fees are much higher as a percentage of overall costs. I know you weren't referring to my earlier post directly on what I believed CESA should do; but if you'll notice I referenced only recreation.
