Travel Youth sports scam?

[Anonymous]

Ehhhh… Not so deep.
Simply skip travel sports for your kid

What doesn’t work for you & your kids def work for others.

[Anonymous]

Like many tutoring centers, many travel sports teams are operated as if they are businesses. As with tutoring centers, some travel teams are better than others, some claim to be non-profit, and so on.

Just as with tutoring centers, travel sports are a choice. Do whatever one thinks sensible for one's family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Correct it’s not a scam…other than 90% of all travel teams provide zero value add for college recruiting but will never admit that to parents.

The joke is that they will claim anyone who ever played for the program at any age as part of their “college commits”. Literally knew a shit program claiming kids who played one season when they were 11 as their “college commits”

Plenty of travel teams don’t claim to have college commits or be pursuing that goal. We have never been on a team like that and the “value” it provides is somewhere for my DD to play and improve. We can afford college and don’t need or want her to play there. Most other parents are the same.

Maybe in girls’ sports. Don’t see that in most boys’ sports.

BTW, if sports are so important in HS, why do you not even want her to play in college?

I meant I don’t want her to go to whatever college would theoretically recruit her. I want her to go to the college of her choice, and if she chooses to play her sport at the club or IM level there, that is up to her entirely. If she wants to do other things instead, also fine. Just like it would be 100% fine if she wanted to quit her sport now. She knows we do not care either way but support her choice.