The financial statements were posted on the bulletin board at the concession stands the whole season this past year. Referee fees eat most of the concession/gate fees. The only day I counted the money, there was over $700 taken in and over $600 spent paying the refs. The difference was $159, that day. That doesn't count weekly fees to empty the porta johns, pay electric bill, buy gas/paint/supplies for mowing and maintaining the field,....etc. Over half of the registration fees go to insurance. There is just not much money left.
There is plenty of room for our youth league to improve in a lot of ways. The current board members are far from perfect but I do not see anyone else showing up long before the season starts and doing the crappy jobs no one else will do. No one else in Warren Co cares enough about youth football to do all the ground work required to start a "better" youth football league. And even if someone did start another competing organization, who are they going to play? Field 2 teams and play each other 3 times for a season with the same team winning every time? Or go to Murfreesboro/Nashville and try to compete with established programs and get bashed?
The only way to make youth football better in Warren Co is to get involved with the current Pioneer Youth Football League and work from the inside to make things better. At least this is my opinion.