With the off season upon us. I figured I’d start an interesting thread about the travel sports community at the youth level. Now I’ll admit, I personally don’t have a child under 12(my daughter is 25) playing youth sports. She did competitive dance and cheer, so it was similar. It just always baffled me how much this stuff costs for so few of them to ever earn a college scholarship and for many to even burn out by HS.
Parents are spending $1000s a year for 8-10yos is just insane to me. I have co worker who’s 10yo is playing travel soccer, and I’m talking out of state to FL, TX, NC, etc and he’s not even in MS! I don’t know how this helps or if this kid will even make a college roster as he’s playing year round(inside footsall in winter and outside in spring and summer). AAU bball tourneys have kids playing up to 9gms a weekend in their off season. So from April to July some kids are playing 2-3 games a day on the weekend, that’s an NBa season as a teenager! They all have become a racket, to where the majority of kids pays for the very few talented ones. And the kids who can’t afford to play and need development are being moved aside for the kid who lives in the suburbs and parents can afford every few imaginable.
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