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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My cousin was a top ten nationally ranked lacrosse player in high school so there was little doubt he would play at a D1 university.

This was the 90s so no one was telling 7th graders that they would be good enough for D1.  No one was having 10 year olds train six days a week because an amateur coach said he had potential. There has to be a lot of disappointment with coaches saying that to very young kids.  [/quote]

> My cousin was a top ten 
>nationally ranked lacrosse player
Lacrosse has zero to do with basketball.  In basketball, top players make hundreds of millions of dollars, and top college coaches are paid millions every year. Now kids can get NIL money and monetize their social media. The effect of all that money flows down to younger kids.   My kid’s HS and AAU teams got tons of Nike money.  HS kids in the DMV are paid to train over the summer with fake jobs — it’s a whole cottage industry that tons of people know about and lots of people who should do something about it ignore.  Identifying prospects is big business.  It is terrible and corrupt, but that’s how works.

> This was the 90s so no one was 
>telling 7th graders that they would 
>be good enough for D1
Of course they were.  My buddy who played professionally overseas talked about going a middle school AAU tryout in the 90s with 600 kids.  The 12 who made the team all played D1.

> No one was having 10 year olds 
>train six days a week because an 
>amateur coach said he had potential
You can’t “have” a kid train 6 days a week, particularly at 10.  By 12, my kid was training that much, but he was badgering us to take him to the gym and, once there, complaining bitterly if we wanted to leave after only two hours (“come on, 5 more minutes, please!”).  I don’t think kids without that kind of internal motivation go very far.  [/quote]

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