Friday, January 23, 2009

Burning Question

How long will it be before we see teams entering the pro ranks with players who expect to have to pay something in order to play?

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Perish the thought!

Tim Cerruti said...

already happening buddy

BobCat said...

We are there right now.

J. Stein said...

Are we? How much are people paying?

I can't wait for this to be the norm.

Baca Loco said...

The place to probably start is with the big multi-team organizations and see how they are doing it. A word of caution tho, recruiting for even the successful enterprises appears to be down substantially. (At least those I know a little bit about.) It probably won't affect team numbers or rosters today but ...

J. Stein said...

Paul,

My budget becomes SOOOOO much easier to balance when I get to charge players $500/event each.

I know of at least one team that charged players last year and I've heard of 2 or 3 more who were planning to this coming season. But I doubt it'll ever become the status quo.