Why must a league MAKE money? ... Just throwing up on the "cage" to see if it sticks.
The league structure must be able to sustain a central administation function - standings, schedules, communications and such. The discussion of making money typically goes in one of two directions. You either have a commercial operation (similar to what Long Island has now) or an all volunteer organization (where service suffers under the guise of "we are all volunteers"). The league needs to throw off sufficient funds to cover central operations as well as building a small func for future expansion of tournament hosting.
If you look at NPYLL, the charge per team is $250.00 per season. Sixty-five teams played ($16250.00) in addition to some profits from their Fall Fest events. An operating budget of $25,000.00 should be sufficient.
Yes, administration costs must be taken into consideration. It was meant to question should a leave be profitable? It appears that the major team programs would be generating surplus income. Clearly they could afford a $250 entry fee.
If the NYPLL model is to be followed, then two major hurdles exist:
-the "home" field aspect where games can be played at little or no cost to the visitors
- getting teams/coaches to committ to the concept of AA,A,B and C where by a team must declare which level they would play in and more importantly; are they ready to put their claimed superiority on the line and actually risk their self proclaimed "best in "x" class" status to participate?
This could result in teams having players migrate to other programs (the NYPLL constitution prohibits inter-team transfers in the same season). That may frighten coaches who do not want to have their "elite status" challenged and their potential ranks thinned. Thus we are back to economics again.
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