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[quote=Anonymous]It's the unregulated travel sports club's.  They are given non-profit status, which means the county allows them to run the Rec Programs in their areas.  They get a monopoly over the county sports assets, like turf fields.

They run the Rec Soccer programs and lots of families sign their kids up at ages 4-8.  But then, at age 9, a lot of kids and some coaches leave the Rec Teams to join the Travel team.  They report back it is better and more fun. They get real referees and real turf fields and better playing conditions! And look how good they have become.

This creates FOMO for the families who stayed in Rec. Then a few years later, the kids don't like Rec anymore and insist on playing Travel Too like their friends are.

Now, Rec sports is only for poor people and kids who are not very good at all. High turn over and lots of dissatisfaction.

And lots a families have to justify spending $2000 on something they used to only spend $200 on.   They travel sports families will talk and talk about it, until everyone thinks they are crazy, but lots of kids have to sign up for it because of FOMO and their friends are doing it and because its better than Rec.

But then, all the High School spots are taken up by kids who played Travel Sports, because the kids in Rec are no where near as good.

The outcome will be the same however, kids will play sports and very few will play in college in the end. But along the way, lots of money and attention is paid to Travel Sports, because they took the Rec programs and made them terrible.

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