Sporty families bragging about offers and committing to awful colleges in the middle of nowhere?

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Can't ratio a troll.

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Anonymous wrote:You are very ill-informed (about both the price of such colleges, and the scholarships they award).

Plenty of articles on the hundreds of dying cash-strapped colleges that are predicted to run out of business by Moody’s. The immediate discounts off fake inflated sticker prices is a routine tactic to hustle parents. Coaches tell the parents whatever they want to hear, but the truth is everyone is getting those fake discounts. Larla you have to go to this abysmal college in the middle of nowhere, the coach offered you a $5k scholarship off tuition if you play softball! We only have to pay $25k a year plus room & board! You almost feel sorry for the parents. Then you realize they’re easy marks because their ego is so tied up in being able to brag their good-not-great athlete is “playing at the next level.”

I think these little antidotes say more about your own social circle and socioeconomic level than anything. I have no such stories to share because it’s not my crowd.

If you're gonna pull a snotty attitude, maybe you should proofread first so you don't say "antidotes" when you mean "anecdotes" because it makes you look foolish.

I never said I was smart, I’m just rich.

You're a dolt.

LOL on your choice of words.... you’re trying oh so hard.. it must be hard to be you. I guess you never quite lived up to your elite degree after all. But at least your have your SAT words right?

average white males...

Thanks for stopping by, racist.

It's more like confirmed bias... but thanks!

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You're welcome - do you mean "confirmation bias"?

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Anonymous wrote:For the millionth time, the OP is not talking about playing sports at the SECs, Sewanee, Kalamazoo, Hampden-Sydney, F&M, Oberlin, Denison, Conn. College of the world. OP is talking about parents bragging because their kid is going to Glenville State College in West Virginia to play baseball.

Now if their kid was born and raised in rural West Virginia? Sure - good for them for going to Glenville! But if there were raised in this area with many other - sorry to say it but better colleges around - yeah, I'm not so impressed.

Nobody wants you to be impressed. Can't you just let people be happy even if their happiness is not something that would make you happy.

Not every word out of somebody's mouth is to impress you. It's sad you think it is.

That's why they boast about every tournament win, share 100 photos and check-ins of the family "visiting" the Ivies, brag about Ivy coach so and so "giving Larla a look"?

Travel sports parents brag and boast endlessly and are status-obsessed about getting on the right travel team, going to the right high school, playing in the right tournaments, and delude themselves that their child is going to play at the next level at status colleges like Princeton or UVA or Middlebury at the very least.

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Anonymous wrote:That's why they boast about every tournament win, share 100 photos and check-ins of the family "visiting" the Ivies, brag about Ivy coach so and so "giving Larla a look"?

I strongly recommend you get off social media. You are not designed for it.

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FYI, an athlete didn’t steal your children’s spot at Duke. They would not have gotten in anyways.

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Anonymous wrote:For the millionth time, the OP is not talking about playing sports at the SECs, Sewanee, Kalamazoo, Hampden-Sydney, F&M, Oberlin, Denison, Conn. College of the world. OP is talking about parents bragging because their kid is going to Glenville State College in West Virginia to play baseball.

Now if their kid was born and raised in rural West Virginia? Sure - good for them for going to Glenville! But if there were raised in this area with many other - sorry to say it but better colleges around - yeah, I'm not so impressed.

Nobody wants you to be impressed. Can't you just let people be happy even if their happiness is not something that would make you happy.

Not every word out of somebody's mouth is to impress you. It's sad you think it is.

That's why they boast about every tournament win, share 100 photos and check-ins of the family "visiting" the Ivies, brag about Ivy coach so and so "giving Larla a look"?

Travel sports parents brag and boast endlessly and are status-obsessed about getting on the right travel team, going to the right high school, playing in the right tournaments, and delude themselves that their child is going to play at the next level at status colleges like Princeton or UVA or Middlebury at the very least.

No they don’t. You have serious self esteem issues.

Most people are happy for others when their kids are happy you have issues.

Even academic kids think they might go to Princeton to find out... maybe not. Who cares if kids strive for a high bar and don’t always reach it.

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Anonymous wrote:Playing college sports (at any level) is an experience. These parents are happy for their kids and the kids are most likely over the moon and yes, even to play D3. Let them be happy, OP. Scroll on.

Do broke no-name LACs with like 1,400 kids really cut players from their soccer, xcountry, baseball, lax and hockey teams? I find that hard to believe. You're literally paying overpriced tuition at a no-name school in a crummy middle of nowhere town so your kid can keep playing.

You are quite ill-informed. First of all, D3 athletes are all recruited these days. The level of competition for playing time is quite high. The differences between D1 and D3 athletes are size and speed.

Second, almost no one pays full price at private schools these days. Tuition discounting is widespread, and approaches 40-50% on average. These discounts are euphemistically termed "merit scholarships," and virtually all D3 athletes receive them.

The only people paying full price for college these days are ill-informed snobs like you who don't know the score.

Third, the traditional enrollment at a liberal arts college is 1200-1800. A student gets a lot of personal attention at a small school. Why send a kid to a large university, where most of the attention and resources are directed to graduate students?

Fourth, team sports provide an unforgettable experience -- one that participants value for the rest of their lives.

Fifth, most liberal arts colleges are located in small towns or villages. Not everyone considers such places to be the middle of nowhere. In small towns, one's character is inescapably on display. It's not possible to be an anonymous jackass (as one suspects you to be).

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Anonymous wrote:That's why they boast about every tournament win, share 100 photos and check-ins of the family "visiting" the Ivies, brag about Ivy coach so and so "giving Larla a look"?

I strongly recommend you get off social media. You are not designed for it.

Agree. Social media is only for narcissistic a$$hiles, and the people who like to keep them going by commenting on their posts/pics. Stay far far away!

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Anonymous wrote:That's why they boast about every tournament win, share 100 photos and check-ins of the family "visiting" the Ivies, brag about Ivy coach so and so "giving Larla a look"?

I strongly recommend you get off social media. You are not designed for it.

Agree. Social media is only for narcissistic a$$hiles, and the people who like to keep them going by commenting on their posts/pics. Stay far far away!

*a$$holes

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Anonymous wrote:Playing college sports (at any level) is an experience. These parents are happy for their kids and the kids are most likely over the moon and yes, even to play D3. Let them be happy, OP. Scroll on.

Do broke no-name LACs with like 1,400 kids really cut players from their soccer, xcountry, baseball, lax and hockey teams? I find that hard to believe. You're literally paying overpriced tuition at a no-name school in a crummy middle of nowhere town so your kid can keep playing.

You are quite ill-informed. First of all, D3 athletes are all recruited these days. The level of competition for playing time is quite high. The differences between D1 and D3 athletes are size and speed.

Second, almost no one pays full price at private schools these days. Tuition discounting is widespread, and approaches 40-50% on average. These discounts are euphemistically termed "merit scholarships," and virtually all D3 athletes receive them.

The only people paying full price for college these days are ill-informed snobs like you who don't know the score.

Third, the traditional enrollment at a liberal arts college is 1200-1800. A student gets a lot of personal attention at a small school. Why send a kid to a large university, where most of the attention and resources are directed to graduate students?

Fourth, team sports provide an unforgettable experience -- one that participants value for the rest of their lives.

Fifth, most liberal arts colleges are located in small towns or villages. Not everyone considers such places to be the middle of nowhere. In small towns, one's character is inescapably on display. It's not possible to be an anonymous jackass (as one suspects you to be).

Ok Jon Snow.

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Zombie thread awakens. ~popcorn~

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I know lots of kids getting free rides at college. That’s huge! Who cares if it’s D-I or D-III? You can’t beat free tuition!

You’re obviously jealous, OP.

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I didn't realize all the tournament and personal results are online for all these travel sports obsessed families. The two biggest facebook spamming and braggart families have young teen kids who are barely top 100 for their age in their state. But the way they brag you'd think they're Olympians heading to Stanford.

When I was looking up their names, I randomly came across a family that barely talks about their daughter (and never brags) and she's a top 3 to 5 swimming in the state in her age range.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn't realize all the tournament and personal results are online for all these travel sports obsessed families. The two biggest facebook spamming and braggart families have young teen kids who are barely top 100 for their age in their state. But the way they brag you'd think they're Olympians heading to Stanford.

When I was looking up their names, I randomly came across a family that barely talks about their daughter (and never brags) and she's a top 3 to 5 swimming in the state in her age range.

Wow, awesome story. Tell us more.