Originally Posted by Anonymous
one price fits all vs tiered pricing would indicate that the lower tiered coaches would be recieving inferior pay for their time unless all of the coaches were to pool their fees and be paid equally out of that.

then there is the question of how to determine a tier? what happens if that team does great and moves up? do they pay more, or less if they move down?

one price seems to fit as you'd expect same level of coaching and not expect that your higher or lower fee means you're paying to be on a good or lesser team, so to speak; but rather paying to ensure that the younger and less experienced will recieve the same level of coaching and expertise regardless of ability of the player. Thus, hopefully all levels of players will continue to grow in ablility and confidence.


That sounds well and good but the reality is if you do some market research and speak to families that have been through a summer on an express team that isn't considered the top team, the attention paid (communication, # of practices, off-season tournaments in the fall, winter, spring, experience of coaches and attention from the directors) is a stark contrast from the top team (orange, cudas or whatever) in the grade. Everybody understands that not every team in a particular grade can receive the same amount of attention equally - its impossible - we get that. But, as such, the cost should be different too. There has been evidence posted on this board that other clubs are doing tiered pricing (fl$ Lite, good town clubs etc) so it would not be unique to the Express. My guess is that Express is pricing high for everybody because they can - not because its good business and customer centric. The model seems to be let the lower level teams subsidize the best teams when it should be the other way around and there would be a lot less bitching about the sticker shock of the lower level teams.