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[quote=Anonymous]Look, I think it’s an important lesson for both kids and parents to understand: you don’t always get to be as successful or the position that you want in life. It’s a good life lesson in general.

My son was a state champion in track and broke a lot of school records. He also is strong academically, although not Ivy League. We are upper middle class and cannot afford a $90,000 year SLAC.

He is ultimately running club track at a large D1 university where he could never make the times to be one of the 20 slots that are open to men on the D1 team. He could’ve easily run D3, and continued his running journey. It just would’ve prolonged the fact that he would’ve had to stop team sports at the end of college anyway.

It’s not really a donut hole problem either.  Frankly, schools have an imbalance of where they put their money with athletics anyway. Athletics and college academics don’t really mix very well.  They now have sixth and seventh year undergraduate players playing NCAA football.  It’s a business model that’s broken, just like healthcare.[/quote]

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