Maybe those « awful colleges in the middle of nowhere » were good fits for their kids or their pocketbooks. You sound awful, really!

I lost you at “awful colleges.”

Anonymous wrote:Playing college sports (at any level) is an experience. These parents are happy for their kids and the kids are most likely over the moon and yes, even to play D3. Let them be happy, OP. Scroll on.

Do broke no-name LACs with like 1,400 kids really cut players from their soccer, xcountry, baseball, lax and hockey teams? I find that hard to believe. You're literally paying overpriced tuition at a no-name school in a crummy middle of nowhere town so your kid can keep playing.

Anti-sports nerd is on every thread tonight. Mom’s meatloaf gave him indigestion.

Anonymous wrote:Gosh, what if kids actually come out of those awful colleges and get good jobs?

I had one play D1 and one play D3. Both played at LACs rated 30-40 by USNews.

Pretty good experiences and outcomes for both.

30-40 are respectable colleges. I can't even find rankings for the regional LACs and commuter universities name dropped by most sporty families.

Anonymous wrote:Some people really did plan on sports to pay college tuition so they take what they can get.

If you look at the finances of these nobodyville private colleges, they are struggling and would likely be out of business were they not able to lure sports obsessed families. Do their teams even cut kids?

The kids want to play on a college team even if it’s for one or two years.

Gosh, what if kids actually come out of those awful colleges and get good jobs?

I had one play D1 and one play D3. Both played at LACs rated 30-40 by USNews.

Pretty good experiences and outcomes for both.

The title of this post alone is such perfect DCUM lmao

Why do you care?

I’m with OP. Although I am a fan of mediocre SLACs, I agree that these sports kids are t well suited to them but go anyway and choose based on sports program moreso than academics. It makes no sense to me.

Playing college sports (at any level) is an experience. These parents are happy for their kids and the kids are most likely over the moon and yes, even to play D3. Let them be happy, OP. Scroll on.

Some people really did plan on sports to pay college tuition so they take what they can get.

Because they are excited and proud of their kids. If you otherwise like these people 'like' the posts and keep scrolling.

Life is too short to waste time on this.

Facebook feed is full of this right now. Nothing we'd ever do, but if you want to brag about your child's athletic offer from D1 UVA or Michigan or using sports as a hook to get into super-selective Dartmouth, Chicago or Williams, be my guest. But those are less than 5% of sporty families. The rest boast how their 15 years of sports obsession netted their kids D3 offers from completely mediocre regional private colleges nobody has ever heard of. Or some open admit regional public commuter university they'd never entertain going to were it not for the chance to play sports. What's the mindset that drives this? Seem so irrational. After freshman year, most kids quietly quit the sport and often transfer to a bigger university their high school friends went to.


Is it ego? Do sporty parents lack the ability to cede the 15 years of sports obsession can gracefully end in 12th grade?