I'm finding that most organizations operate the way our government does. Over promise and then worry about who is going to pay for it later. I've been a select basketball coach. Do the math organizations. How many tourneys are you promising, how much equipment do you need to buy, how many indoor parctice facilities do you need to pay for, etc? Divide it out and there are your fees. Once the season is over and you have extra, pay it back to the players. If you want to add tourneys and the parents are in agreement, tell them they owe X amount of dollars for that tourney. If I had only 7 of my 8 girls that wanted/could play in an optional tourney, they were the only ones that were charged. We kept separate accounts on each girl. They do it that way in select ******. I was able to refund some kids hundreds of dollars based on their fundraising and I refunded one girl $1.35. Give it back to the families. Don't spend my money on spiritwear that they are required to wear to practice. It's not a fashion show. More of my fees our first year went to spiritwear, batbags, windbreakers, and whatever the coaches felt like shopping for with my money than tourney fees. Each player that played for me got an itemized statement at the end of the season with their portion of the cost of everything from practice gyms to scorebooks to ref fees to tourney costs. I have no idea where these people think the money tree is coming from, but let me know, I'd love to get one myself!
. $100 of the $850 was the cost for 3 months of our indoor practice facilty. Our parents did not recieve any refund as we actually went over our budget a little. We offer fundraisers so parents have an option but they are not mandatory except for a small one in the winter. Generally our fundraisers are individual so you get out what you put i. After 5 yrs we know which fundraisers are viable & which ones aren't so we can be wise in our choises of what to offer.
