BOOSTER CLUBS

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Originally posted by TRhit:
It may be very simple--he feels as I do that you do not need booster clubs in many situations---they can be a problem as easy as they can be a plus

There’s no doubt that may certainly be true. Its very difficult to say since we have no information at all about the situation.

But in my very narrow experience, and that’s only here in NorCal, and only in one section, I don’t know of any school that is so well funded that they can do much at all as far as buying equipment, special traveling, or anything else that takes money.

FI, there are a few schools that pay for 3 umps at every FR, JV, and V home game. Usually its only 1 for FR and JV games, and two required for V league games. To have the 3 umps at every game costs about $250 a game more. That’s a chunk of change when you figger 13-15 home games every season.

Several get on planes and go all kinds of places from Tx to AZ to SoCal for the Easter tournaments. One team in our league picks up the tab for 25 players and 5 adult chaperones, other than the coaches to pay in SoCal.

There are a few with stadiums better than most minor league stadiums too. I just don’t know how things like that are possible without some kind of organized effort to raise money and gather support.

I thought we were talking HS baseball?

Planes?

Stadiums?


Duh !!!!!!

Like I keep trying to tell people, every situation is different!

Maybe BBScout has been to the stadium in Clovis. That place is truly a stadium, or at least was 3 years ago.

There are more than a few teams around here that go to SoCal for Easter. Some drive, but some fly. The few teams that go out of state all fly.

Now my son’s school took 6 years before it got a permanent OF fence, 2 more until it got a scoreboard, and we all piled in cars and drove the 40 miles to the JUCO in Roseville for Easter every year.

I don’t know how things are there in Ct, but remember, I live in the land of fruits and nuts, and there’s good reason for that nickname!

Funny thing. some think that money and fancy uniforms and warm ups and stadiums will magically make good players. A couple years ago went to watch a high school game. The team had all the amenities that were the result of a booster club. they lost by double digits commiting 6 or 7 errors and other baseball blunders.

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Originally posted by Will:
Funny thing. some think that money and fancy uniforms and warm ups and stadiums will magically make good players. A couple years ago went to watch a high school game. The team had all the amenities that were the result of a booster club. they lost by double digits commiting 6 or 7 errors and other baseball blunders.

That kind of mentality starts back when some whackjobs decide their little 12U Baby Ruths need to have 4 different uni combinations to drive down the road to play in a tourney with 10 other 12U teams with 4 different uni combos. After all, you don’t want the Li’l darlin’s to have to wear a sweaty dirty uni. ;-)

By the time they get to the HSV, its nice to be able to shed the unis every couple of years, buy new ones, and pass the old ones down to the JV and Fr teams. If the players are at all appreciative, they’ll take pride in looking sharp, and there’s no way to measure what that means to a team.

My son was always one of those players who took a lot of pride in the way he looked. Every time he’d get a new uni, it was off to grams to have her tailor it, but I’ve known other players who couldn’t give a rat’s patoo how they looked. And frankly, I never did much care how they looked, as long as they weren’t ridiculously bad. All I cared about was it they played hard.