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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski
Sure. And if you lived in Haiti, then $20 would probably be beyond your rich. Or if you lived in Western China, $6 would be a deal-breaker.
But to characterize our league as a rich-kid league is funny. Feel free to call it a "middle-class" league if that makes you feel better.
Many of the local soccer and volleyball elite teams charge $700 per kid. Our b-ball league (and my assistant and I) goes the extra mile to keep costs down.
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Call it whatever you want. The fact is when you are a have-not, everyone that is not a have-not is a "have". It's a dichotomous world for the poor.
Many have-nots cannot afford $74 for a basketball league. How many have-nots are in your league? Probably few if any.
The point is, at least in Texas, it would be folly to rate your kid based on a league or system that tended to exclude anyone below the middle class.