When do you expect to get your new team budget ?

[tito]

Still...........

Not a single legit reason given. What would it take, 30 minutes? Another free pass to the manager/coach by the herd. PATHETIC

Still just

1) PITA
2) WaaWaaWaa
3) Name calling
4) Personal attacks
5) Assumptions on sideline behavior

You all look so submissive.

Ok, now that's funny, coming from someone whose first 50 posts were personal attacks and name calling directed at one person.

So, here's how I see it:
You want your daughter to be on a team that puts out a budget.
Most of the replies say if they feel they are getting value from the team they are on, it isn't important to them.
Did I miss anything?

well, besides the fact that you are indeed retarded.

[BenAround]

Did I miss anything?

well, besides the fact that you are indeed retarded.

Yup, you completely missed providing an answer to:

WHY -NOT- provide the budget as required ?

But, you did toss another personal insult. Good work !!!

[BenAround]

Ben,
Would you care to share with other why you feel a written budget is important? Perhaps that would help in this discussion.
Since the majority of responders feel it is not an issue to them, and you discount their reasons as "not legitimate", what is your argument for the practice.

Spazs', I have avoided answering that question in this thread to keep the focus on the single question at hand. Which is "WHY -NOT- provide the budget as required".

In the scope of the question their answers are truly "not legitimate". They are giving reasons as to why they don't want, or feel a budget is not necessary. They are not answering the proposed question of "WHY -NOT- provide the budget as required".

As soon as I state reasons for wanting a written budget, the sheep will begin to baa-baa-baa in harmony and stampede out the gate trampling all over the reasons, never pondering the initial question.

Perhaps if someone starts a thread and asks that question I'd be inclined to provide an answer there.

[TShark]

Don't need a budget in the fall, since there is no ASA being played. Provide one in Jan. Then end of Aug., after everingthing gets figured out. The manager normally finds he/she is in the hole (personally). Most managers will let any parent look at the books during the season.

[Skarp]

Spazs', I have avoided answering that question in this thread to keep the focus on the single question at hand. Which is "WHY -NOT- provide the budget as required".

Your question has been answered here and elsewhere about 50 times, you unmitigated nitwit. The answer is because it doesn't matter, because it is unimportant, pointless, useless to anyone's decision-making process. That point has been made so clearly that a child would understand it. And it has also been explained in nauseating detail why a budget doesn't matter. So unless you can show why a budget is useful, and therefore is worth the trouble to prepare, your argument is completely dead in the water. Merely repeating the same idiotic question over and over again won't change that fact.

[BenAround]

so much for

So last chance.............

Skarp, the fattest sheep of the flock..............

[Skarp]

Just showing my compassion for the needy, that's all. In fact, in that same vein, I'll help you with some more answers to your question:

10 more reasons coaches should NOT provide a budget:

1. Preparing and maintaining a budget/accounting is a major pain in the ass.

2. Energy devoted to the team is best expended elsewhere.

3. Coaches have lives, and other things to do with their time than compile and circulate useless information.

4. Giving certain parents a budget invites the incorrect perception that their opinions on how money is spent (i.e., team priorities) should matter.

5. Because of 4 (above), providing a budget is inviting dissatisfaction and discord where none would or should have otherwise existed.

6. Parents concerned about organizational budgets belong in the PTA, not travel softball.

7. Parents who think that coaches should be obligated not only to volunteer 100% of their time, but also to prove that up on a spreadsheet, should be stoned to death in the town square, not rewarded.

8. It's time for travel softball to "go green."

9. Nobody except for morons and busybodies ever cares enough to want to see a budget. Good coaches learn to get rid of those early. If you want to see a budget, ask...so they'll know what to do with you.

10. Because the dipshit who started this thread thinks they should.

[Vagrant99]

10. Because the dipshit who started this thread thinks they should.[/quote]

[BenAround]

Well, we now know that skarp can at least count to 10. If the budget is low enough, even he could do one.

Actually skarpies little list satisfied my curiosity and was basically in the realm of the type of answers I expected.

You have been sheared and now may continue with your regularly scheduled herding......

[ontheblack]

"WHY -NOT- provide the budget as required"

Asked and answered.

Another answer: At the beginning or during the season, usually not gonna happen because no parent on the team cares about one. The only time I saw questions about funds come up is at the end of the season when some move on and want to know about any deposit for gear. They all got a season ending budget. Now its someone else's problem and I dont care about the effing budget having done it in the past.

Now Ben, I answered the original question, which is "when do you expect to get your new team budget?" and your last question.

Please answer mine, which is "why is it so important to you?". Does it really matter to you?