My daughter was a club athelete for several years and for the best coaches and program it cost me about $6K a year. If winning and development of highly competitive skill sets are not priorities, then it becomes less necesary to hire a coach for more than $20K. Coach Clark’s teams have won over 95% of every tournament entered at the State, Regional and National Level. He's a very good coach and more often than not, you get what you pay for. Having said that, $50K is a middle class salary. In Ponte Vedra, it might even be on the lower end of middle class.

The scariest part about this story is that the parties had a mediation date set for November 30th, and the two boards PVAA/PVSC chose to create an environment to publicly humilate Mr. Clark prior to mediation. Both boards sat in that meeting taking no responsibility for their poor decisions and lack of financial controls over not only PVSC but all the sports clubs in Ponte Vedra under the PVAA. Both Boards need to be shut down and the members are owed a new election. I imagine if the IRS gets wind of any of this everything will be shut down. PVAA should not even have the 501C3 status based on the fact that they are required to audit annually and never have until 2010. If they did their job then no one would be in this situation. Every parent on PVSC better wake up - there will be no operating funds this spring - their money is going to pay for attorneys - because the Board Members on both Boards have been sitting there doing nothing to resolve this.

i have to wonder if i, or another concerned parent -- opposed to TC's attorney -- had called you with the scoop, would we be reading very different articles? 99.9% of the pvsc membership are good people, who just want a place for their kids to play soccer. fundamentally, TC and the excessive nature of his compensation, were putting that in jeopardy. disappointed parents, coming together in an attempt to challenge an overpaid coach who's intentionally exploited his position as a youth sports ambassador for excessive financial gain, threatening the organizations finances and morale in the process. that's the real story here. to report that he was a "club star", or "popular" figure within the club is simply negligent on your part ANJ.com.