Bruce Orton

Review of Schaumburg Athletic Associatio...

DO NOT get yourself involved with SAA youth footba...

DO NOT get yourself involved with SAA youth football! We as a family, have volunteered our time, money, sponsored this poorly run organization. I volunteered as head football coach of the Pac-10 featherweight team after they decided to split up 28 kids because the senior coach thought he was going to the superbowl and didn't want to have inexperienced or smaller kids on his team. Low and behold, after several injuries throughout the year, both teams had to forfeit due to lack of starting players. What a way to have our dollars maximized, mostly to disappoint our kids because they can't play.
The SAA treasurer is completely incompetent and extremely rude and arrogant. I will post emails later once I get them in order to substantiate my claim. We as a family and I as a responsible coach, decided to front the money for an end of the year party, which I knew we were going to be short due other families either not participating or having lack of funds to contribute. After the year was over and after our party, my wife and I contacted the treasurer to get reimbursed. For over a month and several emails with no response at all, we had to send one last email, threatening police action if we don't get a response. He responded within a half hour.
Mind you, we have sponsored for two years, volunteered for the concession stand, holding chains, scoreboard, the list goes on and he couldn't give us 5 minutes in over a months time to respond? Inexcusable!
During the year, we paid $60 for 3 SAA caps and handed the check to the commissioner. While trying to get our reimbursement, they claimed we never paid for the hats and we wouldn't get full reimbursement due to non nonpayment of spiritwear (the spiritwear lady happens to be the treasurer's wife by the way). After going back and forth with him and calling us rude to the spiritwear person, we had to give him a copy of our bank statement to prove we paid, which we had. How is the treasurer confused about who paid? This is his job! Do they not run a tight ship? Do they not keep up their books? In any case, not good. After giving him the copy of the statements to get our $60 out of the $337 they owed us, he rudely accused US for not helping him and being confusing and rude to the spiritwear lady (his wife) which I have emails to prove otherwise.
How many times can you tell someone you've paid, how you paid and when you paid. But we made it confusing....?
During his emails back to us he was extremely rude calling US idiots, putting blame on US for lack of communication, called me a bad coach (I do need to improve on my first year), called my wife a bad team mom (more volunteer work), mocked myself and my families money that sponsored SAA by calling it a joke.
Is this what you want to be a part of?
The commissioner was CC'd on all these emails and wouldn't even step in and offer some type of resolution on the issue at hand. Not one word.

Feel free to learn from your own experience but also feel free to learn from our educated and paid for experience with SAA youth football. We also to date, we've yet to receive our full reimbursement. The season ended in October...

If anyone from SAA wants to disagree with this review on this site, step up. I have no issues giving saved emails to the public making it quite transparent.