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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]

I think this is pretty common.  My kid's DMV public high school played fall league, the school basketball season, then had open gyms in the spring, then school summer league until mid-July.  Kids got half of July and August off.  But, they were also expected to play AAU from March-July.  Often my kid had a 2 hour "optional" school open gym the same school night that he had a 2 hour AAU practice.  It was insane.  They sent some kids to schools like Maryland, but my kid wasn't on that track and decided it wasn't worth it for him.

OP, the only kid I know of who did what you are suggesting was a freak athlete at my son's school who was recruited to a top program in a different sport.  He told coaches he wanted to play JV basketball (they wanted him to play varsity), and they were happy to have whatever time he'd give them.  This was a kid for whom they ran an inbound alley-oop from the backcourt (a kid could throw an inbound pass toward the basket from behind the half-court line, and this kid could catch and dunk it), so he was kind of a special case.

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