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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids play soccer, but pp what you described is not limited to baseball.

Soccer is not known for being a big HS sport.  If you are on a DA team you aren't even allowed to play HS soccer.  BUT--everything you wrote mirrors what happens in travel soccer.  Parents and kids chasing a dream. A dream sold to them by people that only care about youth sports as a business.

My sibling and I played D1 soccer. He was recruited by just about every school in the Nation (top 10 prospect).  This was back in the day the college coaches came to our house.  He did play professional soccer--in the US.  He's the first one to tell me all of this is a complete waste of time for my kids.

It has gotten so much worse since we were kids.  Youth sports has become a lucrative and legitimate business.  Watch some of the Real Sports HBO documentaries on it.  It's sickening. What parents and kids give up for something that is never going to materialize.

And, soccer in the US isn't even a lucrative sport.  The scholarships are next to nothing with the exception of the top 10 players in the Country. Often they are to crappy schools the kid would have been better off just going on academics and be a walk-on soccer player or play University Club soccer.

I see friends that have kids in soccer that don't know what a pipe dream it is for their son to get a full-ride.  They listen to their coaches and continue to fly up and down the East Coast for games and empty their pockets.  The kids and family are giving up so much every single weekend.  The kid becomes burned out before he even gets to college.

I agree what SJC did was sickening.  It is a story playing out all around the US.  SPORTS NEED TO BE GIVEN BACK TO THE KIDS.  They are no longer teaching value and fun in sports---all the reason anyone should play sports in the first place.[/quote]

I think we all agree that the pay-to-play landscape that exists for most youth sports s*cks, but what you are talking about is nothing compared to what the STJ baseball coach is doing. And if you go to the thread re WCAC baseball, you get a better picture of how the coach is not only extorting families, but apparently completely killing kids’ chances of being recruited to D1 schools.  And I’ll add that soccer and baseball scholarships are not a pipe dream at all for good players in the mid-Atlantic—I know scores of kids who are playing or played at great schools with significant scholarships over the past few years, not to mention the admissions boost they received due to their sport. You sound like you are hanging out with a crowd of uninformed people who don’t know much about recruiting and don’t value education. Your experience is by no means universal on that front.

To “Johnny’s” dad and the posters with kids currently stuck in the baseball program, I am so very sorry.  Is there no one at the school or among the alums with the interest and power to make changes?  I mentioned this earlier in the thread, but alums at Bullis rallied to force out some lacrosse coaches over the last couple of years. There is a long thread on DCUM about it. [/quote]

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