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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am sure if all those athletes at Johns Hopkins could see this thread, they might need to change their majors from chemical and microbiology engineering/public health(horror) to..... PE education?[/quote]
Come on - no one at Hopkins even takes the time to go watch the lax team, never mind play on the team and graduate. 
Or were you referring to those quidditch matches on the lawn?[/quote]

You clearly never played a sport. At D3 few players expect a crowd. You don’t expect one and you don’t need it either. You play because it’s healthy, fun and for the friendships. My daughter spent part of this summer with her college lacrosse team traveling overseas. Incredible experience. Sorry no one picked you in dodgeball. Hopefully you will learn to let go. [/quote]

I did play and I continue to play in my old age even. I was and am athletically talented. I have advanced degrees in engineering and my kids are headed to college now - only playing sports ‘for fun’. 
My kids were academically talented enough to get into top schools without needing to play on a sports team . Honestly because of the risk of brain injury from playing sports at a high level I’m happy that they are not continuing with the sports. Had they chose swimming or tennis  I’d think differently I’m sure but everyone chose contact sports. 
Other parents I know lament the fact that their 20 year old children have the ‘body of a 50 year old’ due to the endless training. [/quote]

Clubhouse leader for douchiest DCUM post of the week. C’mon people, make him work for it. Oh and the body of a fifty year old comment is too funny. Trying to imagine this fake conversation where they lament the ill health of their athletic kids. Lord you’re a dope.  [/quote]

The trolls on this thread are ridiculous.  The number personal attacks on people for expressing their points of view is ridiculous.  Normal casual people do not attack and become insulting to this extent unless they are paid to do so.

These ad hominem attacks are coming from paid trolls representing the NCAA which exploits students and profits from them as well.  Or perhaps they are coaches who make their careers from selling unachievable dreams to kids.

There is something wrong with coaches who encourage their players to bulk up to 300 pounds and to wear out their bodies lifting thousands of pounds every week.  Tell me please what do those kids do with those 300 pound broken bodies after their football careers end?

Stop exploiting these kids, stop making a living selling these kids the big lie that playing on travel teams and playing sports in college will make them happy and successful.

The reason these trolls are so angry and so insulting is because they are running a con.  It's a scam! As soon as your kid cycles through they are out recruiting another kid and another family to scam.

To 99.9% of the families out there do you really think playing sports is going to get your kid into Harvard, Hopkins, or Duke?  Of course not!  These people are trolls who want to profit off of your children's dreams. if your dream is to attend an Ivy they will tell you sports will get you into Harvard.  If your dream is the NFL, NBA, or MLB, their program and their coaching will get you there.  For a price they will stroke and sell you your dreams.

Normal people do not speak in such insulting personal terms against others who have only given their opinions about a general topic on DCUM.  These trolls have gone beyond normal disagreements on this thread.  These trolls have a vested financial interest in winning this debate. They won't let it go. They are afraid that some people who would have hired them will not if they stop planning on having their kids play college athletics.

These trolls won't stop because they need to win this debate.  Their financial futures depend on the next crop of kids they can exploit.[/quote]

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