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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We faced this dilemma. High school varsity basketball is pretty ridiculous these days. It's like a full-time, year round job. Forget about doing other meaningful ECs. Sometimes you need to make a choice.

Our DS looked at the time commitment, and said not worth it. It's not like he was going to get a D1 scholarship to Duke. So he backed off to a pretty competitive AAU team. Just for the fun of it. Instead of 7 days a week, it was 2 or 3. And it allowed him to do other things. It worked out. Varsity sports has gotten completely out of hand these days. And if you're not going to be recruited by a desirable college, it really is not worth the opportunity cost anymore.    [/quote]

What school is this that has basketball all 3 seasons? My kid would also drop her varsity sport if it required that kind of time commitment?[/quote]

My kids don’t play basketball but all sports are pretty much year round commitments at their school. Even the freshman teams, which are not easy to make.  One of my kids dropped sports after 9th grade because of never having time for anything else.  He wanted to occasionally sleep or have downtime at home.  The commitment was 6 days per week in season and at least 3-4 days per week the rest of the year.   [/quote]

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