🥎 How Youth Sports Operators View Regulation

"I agree there should be oversight and measures should be taken to realign youth sports with the best interests. To suggest that the problem is a result of private equity ignores historical evidence that many factors and players have contributed to the current state of play. In our market, a non profit, parks and rec department recently took drastic measures to forcibly take a sports program from another organization simply to drive revenue into their own accounts. The problems are complex, oversight would be welcome."

"If everyone is forced to do, then it gets done. Problem could be with neighboring states where states have different rules. "

"like everything else, government regulation would make youth sports more expensive and empower politicians to leverage their power to favor the connected few at the expense of the many."

"Going to make the cost worse. Compliance costs are going to continue to drive the need for private investment. The cost is going to be passed on to the consumer. Government intervention creates more barriers than opportunities. The only mechanism that will impact access is the market. Right now the market validates investment and price. Companies will continue to push the envelope and parents will continue to pay the cost"

"Government had their chance at youth sports, and what came of their miss management, lack of budgets, inability to adapt, grow, increase value in the 70s to 90s, was the birth of youth club sports in the late 90s to today. No way in hell will city park/rec, states be able to govern the monster of youth sports, while more serious issues, cannot even be handled. I bet though they want a piece of that multi-million/billion dollar purse to help them do whatever, which will further restrict the sports to be able to grow, for 10,000s of clubs to close shop, layoff/fire staff, and effectively kill segments of youth sport, instead of growing it. I am all for better policy, lower cost, better facilities, more free play, but government should not be in sport, unless for actual law breaking scenarios, monopolization practices, or purposes that actually break state or federal laws.\n\nFrom a 20+ year Director/Admin/Coach in multiple states in the Midwest."

"The government needs to stay out of private sport lives. It's typical government overreach and will end up over regulating and ruining youth sports. "