Lets see if I can address your concerns,
Your estimations of "P&L" are way off, there is a lot of other expenses that you haven't considered. Flags, printing, marketing, etc. Also your estimations on income are bad, I'm not really sure how you came up with those numbers. If you add in jersey costs, it comes to 435 a team, which is a lot less then what you estimated, plus your jersey estimates are really far off, we actually pay for a lot of the jersey costs for the teams to keep it affordable. You haven't considered staffing, or league prizes, or events as well. Which makes sense, there is no reason you'd have any concept of it really, it all looks very easy to do from the outside looking in, which means we're probably doing a pretty good job of things.
Zorinsky is a silly comparison, it only had room for one field, can't go back there. The league is too big now and these fields were way nicer then those when we started playing here a few seasons back. We agree that we'd like to get a different field location, but the reality is that we can't find one. In the perfect scenario we'd play Fall and Spring on different sites so that the field could rest, as now we play Spring, it's too hot for a rest in the Summer, then we play fall and it's too cold to grow in the winter.
But all that doesn't really matter because I can't find a site large enough for us to play on in the South, Southwest, or West part of Omaha (Where most of our teams are). Last season I had two different guys call me up and ask if they could find us a new site and if I'd be ok with that, and I told them both yes. They spent the winter looking around and didn't come up with any feasible solutions. But like I said to them, I will say to the entire league, if you find me a better option to play on, that has room for at least three fields and is in West, SouthWest or South Omaha, then I will move us there for one of the seasons (Fall or Spring). I'd love your help in finding it.
What field sites do you suggest though, I assume you had an idea before you pulled out an accounting book
? I'd gladly go check them out. If they're nice, I'd even consider moving us mid season! Lets do it. For us, the field issue was never about the money, I wish it was, because that would mean we at least had other options, right now we don't have any other options that meet are pretty basic criteria. But like I said, I hope everyone is always keeping an eye out, and give us a holler if you find one.
Omaha Sports Complex is a great example of what it'd mean to just move to a location, lets evaluate the option. A. they have room for one field, so they aren't even actually a feasible option, but pretending they were willing to build an addition on and give us room and the whole day Sunday to play in there (hey, it could happen. Ya never know.
). Then it would cost about $2880 per team to play in there for a season, using their current rates posted on their website. So . . . to put that in perspective, we'd have to increase league fees about $325 per person (not per team, per PERSON), in order to play there, if they were willing to build us a completely new facility to add on to theirs, and were willing to let us have the entire field from morning to night on Sundays. Buuuuuut, I definitely considered it and would consider any site, and would love some help. So please guys, help us out, call around, get a quote on prices, location and size of fields, and please post them on here, or text me, or email the league and we'll definitely go check them out, we'd love to find a new site. Like I said, you find us a nice, feasible site, and we'll move mid season. I'm all for that, hell yeah, lets do it.
Thanks.
