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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s nice isn’t it?

Go back 20 years and the same 20 kids made/started on football, basketball, baseball.   Same with girls.   In the 80s a  1,000 kid high school would have 80 guys playing sports and 50 girls.

Now, there are more sports and almost all kids focus on one or two sports.  It really has opened the doors to school sports to way more kids.

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Except the high schools are now 3k so 100 girls may show up for volleyball tryouts [/quote]

None of this is different now from then. 
Different cities towns have different size schools. 
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Exactly. My dad always talks about trying out for freshman football when 200 other kids tried out. My grandfather wouldn't buy him cleats until he made the team. Think about that in today's society. He made the team and he got cleats. It is just people whining to whine.[/quote]

Not really.  In the late 90's the process had already started.  I recall there were the kids that were in AAU that were the stars, then there were everyone else.  Now everyone else has to be in AAU also.  AAU is year round training.  No stop.  When I was growing up there were season.  The coaches couldn't coach us in preseaon other than conditioning and providing a place to play pick up games.  Literal rules.... NO COACHING.  Many kids went from sport to sport.

Now private AAU coaches coach year round.  [b]No multi-sport athletes[/b].  Kids start training very young.  Didn't make the swim team whe you were five so sorry Mr. Phelps (Michael only started when he was 7 ) in our area that would never happen.[/quote]

I'm sorry, the bolded is utter b.s. I know many multi-sport athletes. I also know current students who play D1 who started their sport when their age was double digits. With passion, diligence, and natural talent a lot is possible.[/quote]

I think that in general we agree about what it is.  Except you seem to deny that many sports/coaches are like that.  Which is pretty dense given you can go look up what competitive year-round soccer, basketball or swimming progarms literally are and what their schedules are.[/quote]

"Many" sports or coaches being like that doesn't equate to NO multi-sport athletes, which is what was said. Just off the top of my head my DCs have friends who show horses and play club volleyball, swim while playing softball, play basketball and baseball, swim year round while playing soccer, swim while playing travel softball, do track and swim, etc. These kids ranged ES to HS, including kids who played HS varsity sports and local large publics.

Having multi-sport athletes isn't for my family, but people definitely find ways to make it work. I don't need to know the schedules for various area clubs to know what my friends' kids and kids' friends manage to do.[/quote]

Show houses?  They probably take trips to the Utah to do competitive skiing also.  No problem just drop $20,000 on sports activities per year.  Yeah, it's generally accessible.  Anyone can do it.  No biggie.  What's the matter with you? Can't afford it.[/quote]

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