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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The experience is fun but it's not like the rest of the school comes out to watch you. You do it because you enjoy it and you enjoy the kids you do the sport with. More limited social experience. A couple of gathering during the season. Maybe a gift exchange if in the winter.[/quote]

No one watches you in golf, and very few students watch tennis.[/quote]

That is true for most sports: it is mostly the parents who come and watch the games. The only exception might be if the team is really good, but different sports will attract different crowds. A really good team in an unpopular sport will not attract the crowds who show up for a mediocre team in a popular sport. [/quote]

Students go to football and basketball games because they are social events.  [/quote]

Thats true, but even at the youth levels there is a much different vibe.  The basketball games you have to buy tickets 3rd/4th grade.  They have access to great refs though.

I've tried soccer and swimming as a parent so far.  I think they may be considered less popular, though I think soccer is on the cusp of being big in the US, its already a money sport.  That being said the non-revenue/less popular sports the coaches are definitely more concerned about my bank account, whereas with basketball, the coaches were more concerned about selling tickets.  It's a good thing and bad thing.  The coaches in popular sports were generally higher quality, more competitive and better at developing talent, the referees and facilities are better and there are plenty of them.  The non-revenue sports tend to be more personalized, "making sure the kid is happy", but suffer from lack of facilities soccer fields or pools.  The basketball coaches are less so concerned about kids being happy.  So in summing.  I think swimming and soccer would have been a better experience if I had more money to spend on it but knowing that my kids will be able to compete at basketball, I wasn't willing to spend money on it and the coaches didn't treat us very well.[/quote]

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