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Pastimes : The new NFL
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To: nicewatch who wrote (90018)1/7/2026 6:06:38 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell1 Recommendation

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$3K is about right for travel teams everywhere. We as a town are at about $2K, but then you also need to add the cost of private lessons which run around $100/hr.

Do you know what college baseball teams pay their assistant coaches? Zero. In HS, the budget typically covers the head coach and one assistant. Everyone else either has to volunteer or a booster club needs to raise money to pay them. That's why everyone wants in on the youth travel leagues.

Every sport is year-round these days. Once a team gets you, they warn you your kid will be left behind and not develop to his full potential if he plays another sport. And there goes his chances to go pro or merely get a college scholarship. Of course, now that college teams can now pluck a kid over the transfer portal or a JUCO, why take a chance on an unproven kid out of HS, let alone give him a scholarship?

Soccer is a complete mess. Baseball is messy. Football by its nature is hard to steal from high schools. Lacrosse is on its way to where baseball is.

- Jeff
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