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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s your goal?[/quote]

To reach their potential in sport. [/quote]

That's too wishy-washy.  [b]If you don't care at all about college recruitment, then play three sports.
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Some incredible athletes like Patrick Mahomes could have gone pro in either football or baseball...most professional or even college athletes had to specialize.

I don't think you will ever hear of a top professional soccer player ever seriously playing another sport.

The Dominican Republic has the most per capita players in the MLB, and those kids don't do anything else.[/quote]

That's wrong.  I have two kids who played three sports, one each season.  Both ended up playing D1 in one sport, one of them after only having started to play it as a sophomore.  If you're trying to develop your athlete's general skill, they can excel at most any sport.  Of course you can't take up ice hockey as a 16 yr old, but you can switch from hockey to lacrosse or football or whatever.[/quote]

Must be a joke sport [/quote]

No, dude. The intense craziness is to get mediocre athletes to be good at a particular sport. I say this who has one mediocre athlete who is very driven and has become great at his preferred sport. But he’ll never be as good as the gifted athletes who don’t need all the intense training to be great.

Those are the Pat Mahomes, Caitlyn Clark, LeBron athletes, and it’s not most of our children. Athletic ability can be learned but we all have a ceiling and a floor.

For most average athletes, it’s probably better to play multiple sports at a lower level, and save your money and time. They’re never going pro.[/quote]
Yup.

Parents don't want to accept it but it's true. Who you parents are will make a much bigger difference in how good you are then the amount you practice. [/quote]

Well, I have probably the most applicable example of why this is false.

My kid plays on a top-ranked baseball team with identical twins.  In 9th grade, these two kids were indistinguishable to anyone other than their parents.  They were generally of the same playing ability, literally same height and weight.

Starting in 9th grade, one of the twins began training and practicing much more often and with more intensity than the other.  By 12th grade, everyone could tell them apart because one was a good 25 pounds heavier of mostly muscle.  That twin is committed to a top 20 D1 baseball team and is also being scouted by MLB teams...he will go pro if he drafts high enough, though he isn't one of these kids mentioned as a 1st round draft pick.

The other twin will be playing for a decent, but not outstanding, D3 team (talking their D3 baseball standings, not academic standings which are strong).
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This doesn’t contradict what the PP said in the slightest.  All this anecdote does is imply that the D3 twin had the genetic potential to have gone D1 if he had wanted it and worked harder.

Are all of the other kids on the team that worked hard, trained with intensity, and put on muscle ALSO at D1 schools?  Are they ALSO being scouted by the MLB?[/quote]

There are two others getting scouted by the MLB as well, and five others going to play at D1 schools.  They also worked their assess off compared to most others on the team.

At some point, you need to admit that genetics are a kernal to start, but only 10% of the story.[/quote]

Genetics are more important than hard work.  Period.

These kids got on this TOP LEVEL team in the first place BECAUSE they’re more genetically gifted (i.e. they have a higher ceiling) than the other hundreds or thousands of kids who work as hard or harder than they did.  But of course genetics will only take you so far.  A kid can have all the potential in the world and not fulfill it; but the point the PP was making is that *no one can exceed their potential*.  [/quote]

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