My son, a future doctor, is really good at sports

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't read all the posts. Warning I'm gonna be a Debby Downer. Read up on head injuries and soccer. It's not just football players dealing with cognitive issues from too many head injuries.

This. OP your decision is not a hard one or a big deal. There are plenty of people in your exact place, including me. My son is your son's age and is very good at sports(tennis, football, baseball, basketball) in general. He also test in the 99% NNAt and does very well in academics. We've been approach about sending him to a tennis academy in Florida but for many reasons, it would be a good idea for him, plus, we cannot afford the cost. We would have to mortgage our home. Anyway, he is vey good for his age in basketball. We are being pursued as well. There's no downside to this bar an injury. My son has made the decision to pursue an NBA(yep) career. And if he doesn't get drafted by 21, he will go to Stanford or Princeton and get an MBA and go into business for himself. There's nothing to lose in our opinion. He is a very driven and intensely focussed kid. He will do what he wants and succeed at it or die trying. I guess, I am trying to tell you, it is not that special for a kid to be both talented in sport and academic. People just don't encourage their kids in sport sometimes if they're strong in academics because they worry about the dumb jock image and because sport is a risky route.

What great news. I didn't realize that if you got passed over by the draft, you automatically had your choice of elite colleges.

Sorry we are not pushing 'elite' colleges. I was clear when I stated his academic aptitude. If he doesn't make in sport. He will go a different route, like business. He is not doomed to fail, so we are not AFRAID to let him go after his first dream and if that doesn't happen, he will pursue a different career path. And he doesn't need to go to an ELITE school to achieve success. I don't have your fears.

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Encourage both until you get consistent push-back, then it will be time for him to take choices, and live with those choices. Don't ruin your relationship over it.

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't read all the posts. Warning I'm gonna be a Debby Downer. Read up on head injuries and soccer. It's not just football players dealing with cognitive issues from too many head injuries.

Oh please...please don't compare the injury rate in American Football with European Football. Just don't. It makes you look like you don't know what you are talking about.

And clearly you think you know more about sports than PP, but you would be wrong. A simple google search will show you tons of news making studies about soccer as a concussive sport. Also there are pretty frequent mentions of this on sports tv and talk radio and Real Sports programs. Its not being billed as being AS dangerous as American football, but its not to be ignored. Also, FWIW studies are showing that sub-concussive injuries that are even more frequent may be an even worse culprit in cognitive issues later in life for pro athletes and these are nearly impossible to report in #s.

But that's neither here nor there for OPs concern