AAU basketball tryout notice

You could run it as a breakout box with an investigative feature about how much these sort of youth sports leagues actually cost through a players pre-career and what sort of experience waits for those players who are not in the top tier.

You might need something to break up the text.

 

He doesn't have to buy an ad. He can just get something addy.

 

Can he get that in the same place as the transmissiony stuff?

 

*bows*

 

That's why there's a delete key.

I work at a small weekly group and I get that all the time, from various places.

 

I'd rather run a notice like that than an time for a local semi-pro team tryouts that cost players $50 or more.

What's up with that?

 

we have a sports calendar for this stuff. we run it once a week on a community sports page in type slightly bigger than agate.
Run two sentences: Podunk AAU team will have tryouts on April 1 at 10:30 in the podunk gym. Call BR-549 for information.

on slow agate days, we run the calendar on our agate page.
If johnny jumpshot's folks want to pay $20,000 for him to sit the bench on a travel team, god's speed.

 

It's the same thing with us, but how much do you go out of your way to make sure whatever is submitted is published?

 

we rarely get anything that is dubious, so if somebody submits a tryout or registration, we run it. We tell them that it will be in our calendar and the calendar runs at least once a week.
We run college and high school camp notices, and those make money for the programs.

 

It's not really out of anyone's way to pester someone with a daily or weekly email. Either run the brief or hit the delete key.

 

A guy who used to play at the school where I was an SID was an assistant coach for one of these semi-pro teams. He said they held tryouts -- and charged guys to take part -- simply as a way to raise money. They never found anyone to join the team. It was simply a revenue stream.