Need a business idea? Start a cheer competition.

I made close to 100k on my bullshite travel ball world series in Bawcomville last summer

5k entry fee for teams plus $10 hot dogs and $5 water

Morons happily pay it

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Man, youth sports are a racket...

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You ain't kidding. I really miss the days of rec league for like $100 for the season (including the "uniform") until middle school and then your play for you middle school/high school and then (for 99% of us) you go on to an illustrious intramural/pick up game college career.

The rec leagues have been decimated by $1,500/season (NOT including the $300 uniform) "academies" and "AAU" leagues all over the place prepping millions of kids for those college scholarships and pro careers.

My sister has her daughter in that shite and damn near goes broke paying for it all. I keep telling her she needs to cut that shite out but she’s hard headed.

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My parents had all boys so they didn't know anything about cheer or dance practice. My dad asked one of the parents of one of my little brothers teammates who is a family friend about their daughter and cheer/dance. The dad said "that cheer/dance stuff is 10,000x worse than baseball. It is every. single. night."

Long ago I dated a chick for a long time that was out of my league. She was into beauty pageants. She won damn near all of the ones she entered.

I am telling you now. Start a beauty pageant circuit. like 50 bucks to enter and then additional fees if you want be considered for shite like best eyes or prettiest smile.

Your only overhead is a venue, some cheap arse trophies, and a sash for the winners.

I am convinced you could clean up doing this across rural America....Hell, the venues would cost you next to nothing as you could probably use the local High School autitorium.

Man that is heavy. Like travel baseball, soccer, and AAU. The money grab has exploded into every child sport and competition.
Went to an Elementary/Middle school Track meet at a public high school to see a nephew and the gate fee was $6/per. The place was packed with hundreds of people. And the concession stands were going full speed ahead too.

We're going to Worlds!!!!!!!!!!

That facebook post makes me irrationally angry.

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100% this. I was in your shoes last year. My daughter (no pics, fricking pervs) had a bunch of her friends in middle school decide they wanted to try out for cheer at her school. My wife (once again, no pics) thought it would be a swell idea for my daughter to get into cheer practice since she had never done it before just to get her feet wet before the tryout. We signed her up at a cheer studio by the house, which is literally slang for a money laundering operation for the lifted F250, White Oakley, truck nuts, tats all over crowd. I'm not really complaining about the clientele, I train BJJ and those same folks make up most of our school but it was quite comical watching these parents and how much money they spend to get their daughters ready for these so called cheer competitions which are really the end game for these cheer studios.

I will say if your daughter gets super involved with cheer, hopefully she can make the school cheer team where these cheer competitions kinda miraculously stop since there isn't enough time for these kids to do school cheer and these dumb shite competitions. Good luck!

Is this the shite where they don’t allow even parents to watch practices so the routines can’t be stolen? Seems like I heard something like that.