[quote=Anonymous]Perhaps the reasons clubs act the way they do is because there are no legal contracts between the club and the parents paying for their son/daughter to be a member of the club. Think about it, parents just pay without a legal expectation of what they are getting in return. If there were contracts signed stating the membership is from this date to that date, the team their child will be playing on, the number of tournaments/events, the number of practices, and the expectation what will happen at those practices (develop players), the clubs would NOT be pulling the shenanigans they do. As it is now, clubs receive funds and use them theoretically to pay down payments for tourneys/events, rent fields, pay salaries, buy uniforms, etc. Then they push players down a team or kick them off the team because they hold fixed-tryouts in the middle of the season. There are no refunds, because they've already spent the money! Wake up parents, demand contracts, know your rights, protect your child from clubs who think the grass is greener on another lacrosse field.[/quote
The problem with this argument is that none of the players were cut. Some of them probably just fell further down the depth chart but they were not actually cut from the team. So even if they did have a contract it wouldn’t have language that would protect them from riding the bench.
They could put language into the agreement limiting the number of roster additions during the year to like 3. That could be a good marketing pitch but most parents will still care more about the perception of how "good" the club is (their rankings and #recruits).
