Not so sure about this one...

Pretty tacky. An email to each club would have probably been more appropriate. I remember a few years back a club did something similar but it was a list of players that were not allowed to play there again because they had not paid all the club fees.

 

While there are a couple of big names there, I know at least two of those clubs have shut down or are not fielding girls teams due to lack of players. A little follow through would probably have helped here but maybe they are not heavily staffed and don't have time to chase down payments?

 

We don't know that other tactics haven't been tried. I imagine this isn't the first step that was taken to collect.

I am aware of country clubs that will post the names of member's who are not paying their dues.

 

At first I thought it was a bad idea and offensive. Then I thought that this is not calling out private citizens but businesses or organizations and the clients deserve to know these things. Either they don't have the funds or are unorganized. Either way I would want to know.
I did not see the post so they must of taken it down.

 

No question in my mind it was a clueless, classless, and bush league move…which has since been removed…

Publically humiliating 1/6 of your teams…i.e. cliental…is stupid business…

I understand being frustrated regrading past due payments…but no reason at all to go this route after only 18 days…very unprofessional and only makes the IWSL look small and petty….months from now nobody will really remember or care what clubs were/are on that list, only that he IWSL did publicly humiliate a bunch of their clubs…

And on a side note… another “Illinois” organization that doesn’t exist south of I80 or west of rt47…just one of my pet peeves..

 

I guess they are running out of money.

I would never let money get in the way of a good player playing. That is why you need your own money to start a club. Telling what players have not paid is not something I would ever do.

On teams in a league the older your team is the more it costs to put them in. You have to pay your bills. You don't take a team in your league on credit.

 

Wow! Talk about airing dirty laundry. I guess if I were a parent, I might want to know because I'm pretty confident that each player has paid enough of the total fee to at least register the teams with the league for the season (and likely demanded that fee payment under threat of being dropped from the team). To know that they are holding that money (or spent that money) for something it wasn't earmarked for is something I'd want to know since it is probably a tiny peek into the larger financial organization of the club.

 

I guess I don't care that much. I know collecting money is a terrible job. Often the people who are hardest to collect money from would surprise you. People who are trying to collect are seen as the bad guys, but somebody has to do the accounting, schedules need to be made, money needs to be paid out and people don't consider that. We don't know the history, or what they have or have not done behind the scenes.

 

Well, we do know payment was only 18 days past due...now, past due is past due, but 18 days seem pretty quick to drop the public humiliation bomb on someone...but you are right, beyond that we don't know much...maybe the league had made multiple attempts(phones call, emails, etc) to collect...but given the number of clubs in involved and how these organizations operate in general, I somehow doubt it...I tend to think some well meaning, but misguided (not bad) person just just got a little over zealous with power of social media...

 

we had a coach that never paid his fees and then blamed the league that they just weren't accepted. tacky but coach can't lie with public info like that