Upper middle class family claiming “full ride (sports) scholarship” to small D3 private college?
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Anonymous
You can’t love the game in a rec league? Interesting. |
Anonymous
Nope. Maybe 10% of his travel team is continuing at the collegiate level (not club) And I'm in Old Town. Rec and HS don't play a third as much as Travel and virtually all tournament play is travel related. Bottom line, if you want lots of at bats, you play travel. It sounds like you don't know anything about this. |
Anonymous
| Literally anyone can walk on to these podunk private college teams. It means nothing. They don’t cut anyone. |
Anonymous
You are an idiot. |
Anonymous
Um, nope. No-cut and club sports exist at every school, but they're separate. |
Anonymous
It's interesting how this and/or others with the same attitude somehow knows so much about a) competitive youth sports, b) the families that participate in them, and c) the attitudes of everyone else, when they clearly have no sense of any of it. My DC's sport is practiced by literally multiple thousands of kids in our area. DC engages at a more competitive level by choice - and so do thousands of other kids. I think this poster feels that anything that doesn't end in a college scholarship is somehow a waste of time and money, and also resents the idea that other people might have other priorities. |
Anonymous
I have a kid that plays on a high level travel team (70% are D1 commits) and I don’t understand this whatsoever. We told our kid after 8th grade that travel baseball was only in the cards if the plan was to play in college. If it isn’t, then what’s the point of spending thousands on team fees and travel? Our kid thought about it and did try other sports in freshman and sophomore year as well, but decided he wanted to commit to baseball and put in the work. Talking to several D1 and D3 coaches and will be playing in several marquee tournaments as well…we will see what happens. However, we weren’t investing all this money for a hobby. There really isn’t rec baseball at HS so it would have meant focusing on other sports or pursuing other interests, which he fully understood (and playing HS ball which is always an option in his case based on his HS). |
Anonymous
+1 Parents lie. Kids lie. "Full ride sports scholarship" is a brag---sounds much better than, "we qualified for fin aid or got some merit." Years ago I worked in a fin aid office at a DIII school in another state. We awarded need-based fin aid grants and loans, AND merit as determined by the admissions office. Some parent called and gave me an earful about their kid's "low" package, compared to Billy from their high school who was getting a huge BASEBALL scholarship. While I could not talk about any other student's award to this parent, I confirmed to parent that DIII schools were not permitted to award sports scholarships.... |
Anonymous
They don't hate the player. They hate the game. You know this. One year my small high school's valedictorian did not get into Yale. She went elsewhere, then a top med school, and became a very successful surgeon. The catcher on the baseball team got into Yale instead. It happens. |
Anonymous
These no-name D3 colleges would go bankrupt and close if they couldn’t bilk insecure washed up jock parents for 13th grade and the chance for their good not great kids to “play at the next level.” Outside of D1 and the handful of ritzy D3s, “the next level” at a random non-selective D3 is in facilities worse than their high school in front of maybe a couple dozen fans each event. It’s amateur hour. |
Anonymous
The vast majority of travel athletes will not play in college and their parents know that from the start. They schlep around and spend money because their kids love the sport. How else to explain all the kids on 3rd or even 4th teams at large clubs. My kid has played on a variety of teams and at u16 this is the first year that he actually has teammates who share his goal of playing in college. Until this year, I never even considered he would have a chance to play in college but he’s now had several coaches suggest that it’s a strong possibilty to play D3 so he will give it a shot. From day one, I have never expected any return on travel sports. It’s like signing my kids up for piano lessons, dance, etc. It’s about finding the activity that my kid loves and where he feels successful. He doesn’t have to play in college for that to be the case. |
Anonymous
I don’t really understand the comparison. The real equivalent are the kids playing for competitive area youth orchestras, many of which do plan to either audition for conservatories or use their experience for admission to competitive colleges (with maybe a music minor). The kids just playing instruments for fun play in the HS band or form the classic garage band…they aren’t spending much on private instruction at that point. It’s hard to actually find good equivalents quite honestly. |
Anonymous
+1 These parents shelling out thousands per year because “we just love to see the joy on Larlos face when he plays!” are fooling no one. |
Anonymous
Tell me you know nothing about baseball without telling me you know nothing about baseball. |
Anonymous
Actually I know soccer - and there are about a zillion rec options. Don’t know much about baseball. The only thing I do on now is my friends son played rec all through high school and loved it. Enlighten me. Tell me what I’m missing. |