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[quote=Anonymous]I get the idea, but I would go the opposite direction. A lot of what is wrong with youth sports today is the parents that are most hardcore about competitiveness. If you can give those parents an off-ramp earlier in the process, what will be left is much more reasonable.  The problem, for better and worse, is that the current path in USA for sports success in most sports is still mostly and closely tied to a high school and then college pathway.  If you can sever that connection a lot of the system restores to balance.

The European Academy model is the answer for me.  ForCE professional leagues to fund academies in their cities. Allow the parents and kids who are all in chasing dreams of professional athletic success to self segregate. What will be left for everyone else is much more reasonable. You’ll also get the colleges out of the big time sports business and return it to something purer.

An academy model will also help parents and athletes understand where they really stand in the pecking order much sooner. Finally, academy model would put an end to the gamesmanship around ages/grades that occurs in certain sports.

Basically, scale up the ECNL model from youth soccer in the USA.

Lastly, this also probably results in better talent development since academies are better focused on long term development. [/quote]

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