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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s going to be hard on Big10 girls now that they have to fly to the West Coast. Not sure how all of that will work.[/quote]

I'm the one who asked what made OP's daughter want to play college soccer -- and I appreciated the response.

But it's kind of funny that athletes are literally suing because the system is supposedly so exploitative, and yet people are doing everything in their power to have their kids be college athletes. In some cases, the sport gets them in the door at Harvard or Hopkins or MIT. (Yes, MIT has a very strong athletics department -- seventh in the Directors Cup last year.) In other cases, they're going to weaker academic schools just so they can say they're college athletes.

I don't think the Dartmouth players in particular have much of a leg to stand on -- how many of them would've gotten into Dartmouth if they weren't athletes? But yeah, college sports just seem to take up more and more time. In years past, graduating in three or three and a half years before going into the NBA wasn't unusual. Now you'd have to major in badminton to make that happen. Actually, scratch that -- if you majored in badminton, you probably couldn't do your classwork on the road while taking a red eye from USC to Maryland.

So that's why I'm curious about motivations. OP seems pretty reasonable, but a lot of parents of prospective college athletes aren't.[/quote]

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