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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think in areas like the DMV coaches and organizations have the luxury of numbers so they aren’t forced to develop kids who are less physically mature and can pick kids for their teams based on size. Of course these teams wants to win and be competitive (as do the kids and families who sign up to play), but we’ve gotten so out of balance. My boys were right in the middle of the pack size wise so we were able to avoid a lot of this, but definitely saw kids get pushed out for size reasons earlier than they should have (pre-puberty) in baseball and basketball. These were highly engaged, solid athletes who got the later growth card. [/quote]

Do you think there are so any kids playing in the DMV area because of all the nerdy type parents working in government were never in sports so they are all signing their kids up?

Growing up it was the kids in the driver seats not the parents.  In the northern states when the water turned to ice the kids were out there shoveling snow off the ice to play hockey all day.  By middle school the committed and talented were in organized hockey.  Football same thing. The kids who loved it didn’t have coaches until middle school but they knew everything about the game and knew how to play already.   Basketball was the easiest sport to practice.  All you needed was a ball and a hoop.  Kids were out there for hours.

The kids who preferred video games or were very academic and studied on weekends were at home.   It was kind of like by middle school the future varsity players and a small percentage of future college or pro players was set.

Now there’s such an overload of kids playing thanks to corporations getting in the game.  For a price anyone can play.   And like this pp said, there’s a constant fear of getting cut.  There’s a lot of talk about puberty and height and growth.   There’s parents taking their kids all over the place to try and do what former kids did with ease.    Why the change?  [/quote]

It can be worse outside of the DMV. At least in the DMV there are nerds who recognize the kids’ livelihood will come from their brains. They refuse to let the kids play tackle football, and they have self-imposed limits on sports. One of our friends who falls in this category left a child on a supposedly “less elite” team. The child is now getting recruited.[/quote]

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