We actually ran across a similar situation many years ago. My daughter played ‘MAYB’ summer basketball. Basically, some parent would put together a ‘dream team’ basketball team, pay some fees to the association, and then tournaments were set up every weekend for the girls to play against each other.

The local public schools rented out the gyms to different teams who were the ‘sponsors’ of the tourney that weekend. The sponsor team’s parents were in charge of ticket fee collection, concession stand stocking/serving, organizing the refs, schedules, selling T-shirts, etc. In turn, the sponsor team got a cut of the revenue, which was used to pay fees for entering tournaments, buy uniforms for the girls..etc..which was about all that was left over at the end of a tourney weekend. (It wasn’t for the money, it was to keep the girls out of trouble.). The only real people making money off of this is ‘MAYB’.

These tourneys can be very large. The one we were hosting had 18 different gyms, so the parents had to take turns with each other, so no one parent was stuck at the same gym all day. (Some of the gyms had A/C, others didn’t.)

Prices were $10 for a weekend pass for access to all games, all gyms, all 3 days. Otherwise it was 2-4$ (kids 2, seniors 3, adults 4) for a single day pass.

Most of the time, I was just a worker bee at the gym, but one afternoon it was 102 deg; no one wanted to be ‘in charge’ of the gym that had no A/C, and was located 10 miles out of town.

Me, being the ‘supporting parent’ that I am, offered to go out. I ended up being the only ‘in charge adult’ out at that gym. I did have my 3 teenage girls to assist me in some of the duties.

After being out in that gym, making hamburgers, handling parent complaints about the heat, schedule, refs, making sure kids weren’t tearing up locker rooms, gathering stat sheets, reporting results of games, changing pop canisters..I was almost just plumb worn out.

One of the rival teams that were playing that weekend (remember, we weren’t playing because we sponsored it…but you can bet that it was a team that we had been head to head with before…these teenage girl teams can be similar to rival gangs..), came to the gym, and set up an ‘ice cream dots’ stand right outside of entrance door to the gym.

I personally didn’t have a problem with it, cause I know how hard it is for teams to raise money, and we couldn’t sell ice cream because the gym wasn’t equipped. We also had a contract with the schools in which food was only allowed to be sold at the concession stand, by the sponsor team (Because the Health Dept starting coming down on the schools, even tho it wasn’t a ‘school function’.)

I had to go ask them to leave, and they got very fussy with me. I never got physical, or yelled. I even begged at one point, pointing out there was a game getting ready to start, and I had to get everything set up for it.

The lady was 6’1″, I’m 5’2″. She said, “Just try and make me leave”.

I called the cops.

Sometimes, there are just too many stupid regulations that too many people are bound to, because of the ‘sue happy’ Americans we have become.

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Although, in this case, the ‘President’ was just ticked off that he didn’t get any money out of the guy for being there, even if he wasn’t selling anything.