Unfair Football Costs
Depending where you live makes a huge difference on how much it costs to play football in the upper valley. In fact, if you happen to live in Rigby the cost can be more than two or three times higher than someone who lives elsewhere. If you register your son to play in Rigby the cost will be $125 and that won’t even get you equipment! You have to write another check for $100 or you won’t get a helmet or shoulder pads! And why has the cost increased from $90 to $225 in one year? No one knows because it isn’t the parents right to know according to the people in charge. Just write the check(s) and shut up.
For years there has been no accounting for the costs of football all over the valley, that needs to change. The equipment and supplies belong to the communities that pay for them - and everyone who has ever written a check to the “old school” league should be able to see how their money is being spent. Not in Rigby. Ask for information in Rigby and not only will you be told “no”, you could be threatened verbally in a parking lot. Don’t think it hasn’t happened.
In fact, if you coached in the Pinnacle Youth Football league last spring the Director in Rigby won’t let you coach for the “old school” league. Why? Because evidently you have been banned by the leaders in Idaho Falls. Is that crazy? It’s a punishable offense to work with the youth in the spring? To help them improve? Become better players? Better men?
Here’s an idea; lets focus on the kids and put our egos aside. It doesn’t do our youth any good when adults act like they have IQs of about room temperature. We here at Pinnacle would never ban someone from coaching in our leagues because they coached for another league. Godfrey, how about we all grow up. It is about the youth right?
Tags: coaching youth football, Pinnacle Youth Football, Rigby football, Youth football costs, Youth Football in Idaho
August 9th, 2009 at 7:43 am
I enjoy the old school league and the other 1200+ youth player in Idaho Falls seem to have some great experiences as well. I am a football fan and put a ton of time into youth football. The idea of a spring league sounds great to me. The problem I have is how the pinnacle league from the very first day I heard about it has spent most of its time and energy bad mouthing the old school league. If you really want to have a successful spring league stop wasting time on the other guy and focus on yourself! As for the Rigby area raising the fee’s you might want to look at all the conflict your so called in it for the youth league has caused.
August 9th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
You obviously know nothing of what happened in the spring with regards to football in Rigby. Here it is in a nutshell; we asked to rent the equipment from the Director and were told no. If we had rented the equipment from Rigby they would have raised money and maybe it could have helped keep costs down. Instead we rented the equipment from Madison and they received the money, kinda silly don’t you think?
As for conflict, I guess we created it by asking to use the equipment, I don’t know what we could have done. We called and asked and were told no. We then had to explain to our youth (and their parents) why we were going to Madison to suit up, which upset some of them. We didn’t have to try to shed Rigby in a bad light - it was already done.