cgs: That's the amount the coach would receive, with an expectation of once a week practices in the winter and spring (hs players can be with their travel teams during hs season out here) and regular summer and fall tournaments and practices during the week in summer and fall. The salary does not include expenses, which would also be taken care of. Figuring a $6,000 salary and probably another $5,000 in expenses, that's around $11,000 to pay for a head coach, which of course would be divided among the players in their fee.
I know one top organization out here charges the players something like $2,500 per player and then each family can figure on ponying up another $10,000 or so in travel expenses during the year, traveling to Vegas, California (2-4 times), ASA Nationals, Colorado and wherever else.
It works out for some players and they get some or all of their college paid for and it doesn't work out for others. The latter group usually drops off after one or two years of this when they see they aren't drawing the college interest, or the team drops them when they see those girls aren't drawing college interest. It's pretty cut-throat. The teams that guarantee placing a girl with a college if she stays with the organization all the way through almost always drop the girls once they see they don't have the talent to be recruited. Or they just sit them on the bench and the girls eventually look for another team.
Further, pretty much any girl playing with an organization that is in the top two in its state is going to find a spot at least at a Div. III or NAIA school. So those guarantees of placing a girl in a college program are meaningless. Let's see a team or organization guarantee something like a 50% athletic scholarship if a girl simply makes a team in that one year and then have a lawyer draw up a contract, and then it might mean something.
It sounds as if Ohio is slowly headed in the direction that has long been in place in the west. Most of the girls I am following went to Vegas for the J.O. Classic in mid-June, then went to Portland for a big tournament, then somewhere for an ASA qualifier, then Colorado straight from the qualifier and now will take a few days off before heading to another qualifier. And some of these are teams that would be fortunate to be ranked in Ringer's top 10 polls in Ohio. For the teams that would be in Ringer's polls, playing that type of schedule and paying coaches is just automatic, it's not even questioned.
