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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sports crazy parents need to add up all the roster spaces at the top private colleges. Far less than lottery odds your kid is one of them. And all of teams give the nod to filthy rich families over random joe blow striver from the DMV. Talent is a secondary consideration.

I bet you all laugh and make fun of “dumb” poor people for wasting money on scratch off lottery tickets.

If your good not great athlete plays at “the next level” it’s prob going to be some podunk crap college nobody has ever heard of. And they’ll most likely quit the team after a year and transfer to the state university all their friends are at. I’ve seen this play out hundreds of times.[/quote]
You think there are a lot of posters (any posters?) on the DCUM College and University forum who show up to post at all if their kid ends up at a “podunk crap college” for whatever reason? Is this your first time on DCUM? [/quote]

Delusional strivers lie to themselves until the very end that their kid will con their way into a "T20" and/or play "at the next level." Well, for 99% of student-athletes, the next level is some backwater degree mill in some podunk town. I've seen it happen hundreds of times.[/quote]
I’m sure this happens in some communities where sports are valued over academics and the parents are uneducated, and/or unsophisticated, and/or can only afford to send their kids to college with the help of an athletic scholarship. That community is very far removed from the communities where posters on this particular DCUM forum live.  90+% of the people here complaining about admissions hooks for athletes are p*ssed because an athletic UMC kid who attends the same school as the UMC poster’s child will be waltzing into an Ivy-level school as an athletic recruit while their little genius is “stuck” going to UVA, William & Mary or some other great but not as brag-worthy school.  So, while you are welcome to mock whomever you please, I don’t know why you are addressing your mockery to this group. [/quote]

Go add up all the current Ivy League student-athletes from the DMV, then subtract URMs, legacies and filthy rich. That is how many spots for random Joe Blows from the DMV you're talking about. I'd guess maybe a few dozen out of a couple million DMV kids? Again, most student-athletes end up degree mills. You're focusing on the handful who essentially win a lottery, while ignoring the big picture. You're probably some coach or schemer in the travel sports racket. Freeloading off selling false hope to delusional sports crazy parents who piss away every weekend for 10 years so their kid can end up playing in front of 10 people at Podunk College in Ghost town, USA.[/quote]
Lol, OK crazy dude. If you want to rant about deluded parents who are victimized by the youth sports complex and end with kids in no name schools, have at it. The rest of us are talking about the actual topic of this thread, which is whether it is unfair that talented athletes with imperfect stats can breeze through admissions and end up the tippy top schools coveted by non-athlete striver parents.  Get it? The reason we are “focusing on the handful who essentially win a lottery” is because the parents of the non-athletes want the better odds their kids if there were no athletic preferences. [/quote]

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