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many guys who started the local programs and might have cared, now have seen their own kid go to college or just finish college and have decided to cash out to the national organizations, or at least sell the ownership and/or building and stay around to transition and make it seem like nothing will change.  Trust me 3Step, API, NXT aren't buying up all these local programs because they like kids, they are buying a captured market share to buy their products... there is a ton of profit to be made when you have an organization that can run the financials and doesn't feel guilty about charging what the market can bare, for "youth baseball" (in some cases $4-7K easy).  Not to mention buying up all the programs so there is no longer the small ones charging less than half of what they are.  You play for them, or you play for no-one.

The money they pay coaches is basically entry level job type money, which you cannot raise a family on or support a healthy lifestyle, Example Director of Player Development ($35K), you can imagine what the third tier level 9u coach is making.   So it's a temporary job for many of the top young coaches until they find a job in their major or if baseball is their thing, a paid position at the local college, with dream of a head coaching job sometime.  I've seen some leave because their wives or fiancé are asking when they are going to get a grown up job. 

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