Reply to Travel Youth sports scam?

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "Travel Youth sports scam?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thought the article raised some serious questions.

https://www.basketballspeedspecialist.com/blog/youth-sports-is-the-greatest-theft-in-america

IME I have seen that every other kid plays travel now..and no they are not all that and they don’t need to be playing travel.[/quote]

OP I agree.  One major problem is the alternative to Travel soccer is Rec soccer.  Rec soccer is terrible by comparison.  Our Travel program is only able to exist by luring families out of of Rec soccer.  They recruit them constantly and decimate the Rec teams.  The rec leagues are only ran by the same clubs who operate the travel league.  They run the rec league to service the community and get access to the county's turf fields by getting blanket permits to those turf field.  But then, plot twist, they only allocate the turf fields to their travel teams for all practices and most games.

If the county were to take back the Rec programs and remove all "non-profit" Travel programs from using all the facilities, the Rec programs would be very robust and good to play in -all the while eliminating 80% of the travel programs (that are self serving and ruin the Rec programs and do not get kids into college) and therefore, would leave just a few -strong- travel programs that would be competitive enough & strong enough to mean something.

[/quote]

Agree with all of the above. Though I will say I’m entertained by the people who seem to think many parents force their kids to do travel sports. I’m apparently doing it wrong, because I’m not sure how you really “force” kids to do much once they get to be 10 or so.[/quote]

They sign them up and make them go. It's not right, but parents do it.[/quote]

Travel sports with tryouts and cuts? Really?[/quote]

Parents make their kids play sports all the time. I'm not sure why its so unbelievable. [/quote]

+1 It's no different than forcing your kid to do other enrichment.[/quote]

No, it’s completely different.

Academic enrichment boosts grades, boosts test scores,  allows acceleration, and will gain you child admission to a T30 university.

Playing sports-ball gets one nowhere.[/quote]

NP but I believe the point is parents can force children to do things they don't really want to do.  Not that forcing them to sports is the right thing to do.

Also the idea that some academic enrichment will lead your child to a T30 university is a bit misguided.  But that's another thread.[/quote]

Academic enrichment can lead a struggling child to a middle tier college.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics