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[chopper]

I would like to know how much other parents are being asked to pay for coaches extra expenses when we travel to games. I feel very strongly that this is inconsistent across the organization and I feel that some coaches are taking advantage of the extra expenses (expensive rental cars, eating top of the line meals, etc).

[Drfredc]

I would like to know how much other parents are being asked to pay for coaches extra expenses when we travel to games.

Snohomish United allows for .42 per mile for coach travel expenses (this was with $2 gas), plus meals and lodging, if required.  This may go up this fall to over 50 cents per mile to adjust for gas costs.  This means a Snohomish Spokane game (600 plus mile round trip), costs around $300 for the team to get the coach there (or about $20/player-parent), which seems a bit steep, IMHO.  At $300, a coach might fly and have someone pick them up at the airport.  This may seem excessive, but might cost less than the standard travel allowance...  Most coaches figure a way to ease this burden by ride sharing, only reporting actual costs for gas, etc.  

In some teams in excessive travel leagues such as P3 BU15 end up with travel of over 2000 miles per team or over $1000 for fall season play, which is a signficant expense with gas running $3 per gallon.  Don't forget, this only gets the coach to the game, not the players or family.  The family must also bear (or share) a similar cost travel burden for travel soccer to get a player to the game.  

IMHO, a serious evaluation of the fiscal practicality and wisdom of four state wide travel leagues and viable alternatives to regional leagues and conferences is long past due.  

For example, the North Puget District 1 at BU16 is full of teams who played BU15 P2 teams pretty evenly in summer tournament play.  The BU16s have a season of HS soccer under their belts (with about double the total practice and play time of most BU15 teams since March).  A BU15 team at P3 or P4 might be better served playing BU16 district than BU15 P3 or P4, since there's really not all that much significance to being P3 or P4.  The only thing sacrificed would be the ability to move up via relegation to P2 by winning P3.  A P4 team (and bottom P3s) would sacrifice very little playing a year up in district as there isn't any significance gained winning P4, they've still got to go to LPTs next year to figure their league out.  

As a way of wrapping this back to the cost issue/question, district (or regional) leagues are far less costly in time and money than WSYSAs Premier leagues and may offer roughly equivalent quailty at far less cost.

[gunnar04]

i feel that if the coach is being payed by each player then he should pay for everything but his airfare and if he is volunteer then everyone puts in the same amount but not pay for everything cause our total budget we got to with travel fees was almost 8000$ with all the flights we had and tournaments we went to and that included everyone paying for the coach. since our coach took us on so many tournaments this year that were far away he decided to make us not pay him and just pay for his travel and room fees