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Guest wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 9:14 pm
Hockey Parents are suckers. If you did the math before handing over money blindly. You would have seen you were paying this guy 1k per game to open a door.
I don't think there are many Spring Programs who are willing to do their whole thing at cost. I get the guy might not be great, I couldn't tell you if thats true or not, but at the end of the day you are paying for someone to organize it and put a team together with jersey's etc.
It's not just spring hockey, it's all minor hockey.
Parents get ripped off all year for hockey.
While Spring Hockey is a for profit business, a lot of rep programs would fall into the same category but you are more than willing to over pay during the winter and not complain.
No one forces you to play spring hockey, AAA hockey, local league, take skills lesson, power skating, etc. You know the costs up front and make a choice to do it. No one to blame but yourself if you have buyers remorse.
You can get lucky and find a good program though, those are the ones to be loyal to. Our Spring team, everything is at cost. Our coach owns and operates it. Shares what everything costs (which is all easy to find anyways) and divides it by kid. He even pays for his own kid to play. He is a good coach, great with the kids, they love him. Couldn't ask for more.
However, I recognize we are lucky, like I said.
Can you share his website or email? LOL
There is nothing wrong with making money. If you see an opportunity where you have a need with people willing to pay money, then I have no problem with that.
Where my issue lies is when people get greedy and way over charge so they can prey on parents just looking to help their kids in getting better or getting to the next step. Even these so called "non-profits" that gouge parent. At least there are a lot more options now it will force associations to look at their costing structure.
Guest wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 9:14 pm
Hockey Parents are suckers. If you did the math before handing over money blindly. You would have seen you were paying this guy 1k per game to open a door.
I don't think there are many Spring Programs who are willing to do their whole thing at cost. I get the guy might not be great, I couldn't tell you if thats true or not, but at the end of the day you are paying for someone to organize it and put a team together with jersey's etc.
It's not just spring hockey, it's all minor hockey.
Parents get ripped off all year for hockey.
While Spring Hockey is a for profit business, a lot of rep programs would fall into the same category but you are more than willing to over pay during the winter and not complain.
No one forces you to play spring hockey, AAA hockey, local league, take skills lesson, power skating, etc. You know the costs up front and make a choice to do it. No one to blame but yourself if you have buyers remorse.
You can get lucky and find a good program though, those are the ones to be loyal to. Our Spring team, everything is at cost. Our coach owns and operates it. Shares what everything costs (which is all easy to find anyways) and divides it by kid. He even pays for his own kid to play. He is a good coach, great with the kids, they love him. Couldn't ask for more.
However, I recognize we are lucky, like I said.
Can you share his website or email? LOL
There is nothing wrong with making money. If you see an opportunity where you have a need with people willing to pay money, then I have no problem with that.
Where my issue lies is when people get greedy and way over charge so they can prey on parents just looking to help their kids in getting better or getting to the next step. Even these so called "non-profits" that gouge parent. At least there are a lot more options now it will force associations to look at their costing structure.
no, sorry lol.
don't want to lose my spot for next year. Its 2016 only.
Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jun 11, 2025 6:52 am
Fillo is a con artist and thief with fake hockey credentials. Don’t go anywhere near the guy with your wallet.
Start a team? Its incredibly easy. You just get some jerseys, you get really nice ones, or plain ones with some numbers, and then get some parents who are interested.
Lock down some tournaments you want to go to, collect the money from the parents, pay for the tournament - boom you've created a spring team.
Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jun 11, 2025 6:52 am
Fillo is a con artist and thief with fake hockey credentials. Don’t go anywhere near the guy with your wallet.
Start a team? Its incredibly easy. You just get some jerseys, you get really nice ones, or plain ones with some numbers, and then get some parents who are interested.
Lock down some tournaments you want to go to, collect the money from the parents, pay for the tournament - boom you've created a spring team.
Also, make sure you put "Elite" or "Pro" in your team name, suckers, I mean parents love that too!
Guest wrote: ↑Wed Jun 11, 2025 6:52 am
Fillo is a con artist and thief with fake hockey credentials. Don’t go anywhere near the guy with your wallet.
Start a team? Its incredibly easy. You just get some jerseys, you get really nice ones, or plain ones with some numbers, and then get some parents who are interested.
Lock down some tournaments you want to go to, collect the money from the parents, pay for the tournament - boom you've created a spring team.
Also, make sure you put "Elite" or "Pro" in your team name, suckers, I mean parents love that too!
I hope someone starts a team and the name is like "Super Pro Elite All-Stars" or some shit. That would be hilarious.