Anonymous wrote:Have your son take his head and bash it against another child's head for the coach's glory. Yes, please do this (so that others will have less competition in 5 years). Please, Please.

Are you being serious? Apparently you have no idea about the sensors in kids helmets these days. Or maybe you never played sports as a kid.

Do you wrap your kids in bubble wrap every time they leave the house? I'm almost positive that you also have Life 360 app so you can track their every move. smh

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Anonymous wrote:Much better odds for ice hockey and lacrosse players: https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2015/3/2/estimated-probability-of-competing-in-college-athletics.aspx

But you're not going to learn lacrosse overnight. The thing with these football players is that they barely even play football. They started in 9th grade (if that). The Ivy lacrosse recruits have put in a decade of travel lacrosse. That is a LOT of tournaments and a lot of money.

The talented athletes pick up football and lacrosse easily and they don’t need a travel team at 5 years old to be good enough to be recruited. Lacrosse is easy to pick up in 9th grade and play varsity in high school.

The tournaments and too much money spent is parents signing their kids up trying to make their average kid an athlete. Those travel teams are made up of over 90% of kids who will never be good enough for college lacrosse.

Have you played?

Not in a good conference like the MIAA Aconference. My son started playing in middle school and that is the latest of any kid that plays for his school. Maybe VA public school lacrosse, but very few of those kids are being recruited.

I played varsity lacrosse (female) so did my brother and cousin who got a scholarship to a D1 school. This was the early 90s before all the pay to play organizations popped up.

You absolutely do not have to play before middle school in order to play in high school. Three years in middle school is more than enough to prepare for high school. All that extra play probably helps the kids who aren’t natural athletes but the kids who will dominate the sport don’t need it.

Any yet 90 plus percent of kids who play in college start as younger kids. It isn’t the 1990s when anyone on a decent dmv team could get recruited.

Have your son take his head and bash it against another child's head for the coach's glory. Yes, please do this (so that others will have less competition in 5 years). Please, Please.

Why do you think schools are desperate for football players OP? People have already answered this-because CTE is real. I knew an ivy football player who committed suicide from CTE. I know a high school football star who spiraled downward into drugs, alcohol and constant psychiatric ward visits-likely CTE, but cannot diagnose until death. I would prefer my own kids play safer sports even if that means *gasp* they don't get into top notch schools. The bragging rights and great job offers ware off once you have a person who cannot function in society die to a brain issue that could have been PREVENTED. There is no cure. There is not much that helps. It's a living hell which is why so many kill themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:No thanks. We like their brains. They do crew.

Crew is great for non athletic kids. It gets you in shape. But the natural athletes wouldn’t be satisfied with just that because it’s safe.

Tell me you have never been in a boat without telling me you have never been in a boat.

You use every muscle in your body simultaneously, for a long sustained sprint, in perfect unison with seven other people. It is grueling and the training is intense.

It is my son’s favorite sport. The other? Rugby. He is intensely athletic.

Personally, I like tennis. But you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

Don't get so bent out of shape. I know some recruited crew kids who turned to crew because honestly, they weren't any good at "ball" sports. They have no shame in telling you this. This is not to say crew is an easy sport...it's all-consuming and draining and some kids love it.

DP.

Backpedaling so hard you’ll hurt yourself.

I am a DP too that posted that You know that's how DCUM works, yes?

Yes, that’s how it works. A DP usually says they are a DP so posters can follow and join an ongoing conversation without others thinking they are a PP.

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Anonymous wrote:No thanks. We like their brains. They do crew.

Crew is great for non athletic kids. It gets you in shape. But the natural athletes wouldn’t be satisfied with just that because it’s safe.

Tell me you have never been in a boat without telling me you have never been in a boat.

You use every muscle in your body simultaneously, for a long sustained sprint, in perfect unison with seven other people. It is grueling and the training is intense.

It is my son’s favorite sport. The other? Rugby. He is intensely athletic.

Personally, I like tennis. But you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

Oh please, no need to get personally insulted. Crew is intense and grueling so it’s not for everyone. But if a student is willing to put in the intense training they can do it.

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Anonymous wrote:No thanks. We like their brains. They do crew.

Crew is great for non athletic kids. It gets you in shape. But the natural athletes wouldn’t be satisfied with just that because it’s safe.

Tell me you have never been in a boat without telling me you have never been in a boat.

You use every muscle in your body simultaneously, for a long sustained sprint, in perfect unison with seven other people. It is grueling and the training is intense.

It is my son’s favorite sport. The other? Rugby. He is intensely athletic.

Personally, I like tennis. But you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

Don't get so bent out of shape. I know some recruited crew kids who turned to crew because honestly, they weren't any good at "ball" sports. They have no shame in telling you this. This is not to say crew is an easy sport...it's all-consuming and draining and some kids love it.

DP.

Backpedaling so hard you’ll hurt yourself.

I am a DP too that posted that You know that's how DCUM works, yes?

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Anonymous wrote:Adding there is a definite racial bias in this thread. If you don’t know any kids playing football, perhaps you don’t know any kids of different races or ethnicities of your own.

I agree. Also people are looking down on football and claiming it’s because of risk of brain injury. Even though soccer is one of the highest risk sports no one mentions it because the suburban kids play it. The repetitiveness of hitting a hard ball with your bare head over and over as a teen and young adult causes long term damage.

I didn’t realize that soccer players suffer from CTE at similar rates to football players, especially at lower (non-professional) levels.

Admittedly I haven’t been keeping up with the research but I am quite shocked at this news.

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Anonymous wrote:No thanks. We like their brains. They do crew.

Crew is great for non athletic kids. It gets you in shape. But the natural athletes wouldn’t be satisfied with just that because it’s safe.

Tell me you have never been in a boat without telling me you have never been in a boat.

You use every muscle in your body simultaneously, for a long sustained sprint, in perfect unison with seven other people. It is grueling and the training is intense.

It is my son’s favorite sport. The other? Rugby. He is intensely athletic.

Personally, I like tennis. But you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

Don't get so bent out of shape. I know some recruited crew kids who turned to crew because honestly, they weren't any good at "ball" sports. They have no shame in telling you this. This is not to say crew is an easy sport...it's all-consuming and draining and some kids love it.

DP.

Backpedaling so hard you’ll hurt yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:No thanks. We like their brains. They do crew.

Crew is great for non athletic kids. It gets you in shape. But the natural athletes wouldn’t be satisfied with just that because it’s safe.

Tell me you have never been in a boat without telling me you have never been in a boat.

You use every muscle in your body simultaneously, for a long sustained sprint, in perfect unison with seven other people. It is grueling and the training is intense.

It is my son’s favorite sport. The other? Rugby. He is intensely athletic.

Personally, I like tennis. But you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

Don't get so bent out of shape. I know some recruited crew kids who turned to crew because honestly, they weren't any good at "ball" sports. They have no shame in telling you this. This is not to say crew is an easy sport...it's all-consuming and draining and some kids love it.

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Anonymous wrote:No thanks. We like their brains. They do crew.

Crew is great for non athletic kids. It gets you in shape. But the natural athletes wouldn’t be satisfied with just that because it’s safe.

Tell me you have never been in a boat without telling me you have never been in a boat.

You use every muscle in your body simultaneously, for a long sustained sprint, in perfect unison with seven other people. It is grueling and the training is intense.

It is my son’s favorite sport. The other? Rugby. He is intensely athletic.

Personally, I like tennis. But you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:Adding there is a definite racial bias in this thread. If you don’t know any kids playing football, perhaps you don’t know any kids of different races or ethnicities of your own.

I agree. Also people are looking down on football and claiming it’s because of risk of brain injury. Even though soccer is one of the highest risk sports no one mentions it because the suburban kids play it. The repetitiveness of hitting a hard ball with your bare head over and over as a teen and young adult causes long term damage.

Football has the most. Women’s soccer is second only bc women aren’t the ones who are typically playing football. Soccer can cause concussions and head damage but football far leads the statistics.

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Anonymous wrote:Much better odds for ice hockey and lacrosse players: https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2015/3/2/estimated-probability-of-competing-in-college-athletics.aspx

But you're not going to learn lacrosse overnight. The thing with these football players is that they barely even play football. They started in 9th grade (if that). The Ivy lacrosse recruits have put in a decade of travel lacrosse. That is a LOT of tournaments and a lot of money.

The talented athletes pick up football and lacrosse easily and they don’t need a travel team at 5 years old to be good enough to be recruited. Lacrosse is easy to pick up in 9th grade and play varsity in high school.

The tournaments and too much money spent is parents signing their kids up trying to make their average kid an athlete. Those travel teams are made up of over 90% of kids who will never be good enough for college lacrosse.

Have you played?

Not in a good conference like the MIAA Aconference. My son started playing in middle school and that is the latest of any kid that plays for his school. Maybe VA public school lacrosse, but very few of those kids are being recruited.

I played varsity lacrosse (female) so did my brother and cousin who got a scholarship to a D1 school. This was the early 90s before all the pay to play organizations popped up.

You absolutely do not have to play before middle school in order to play in high school. Three years in middle school is more than enough to prepare for high school. All that extra play probably helps the kids who aren’t natural athletes but the kids who will dominate the sport don’t need it.

Anonymous wrote:Adding there is a definite racial bias in this thread. If you don’t know any kids playing football, perhaps you don’t know any kids of different races or ethnicities of your own.

I agree. Also people are looking down on football and claiming it’s because of risk of brain injury. Even though soccer is one of the highest risk sports no one mentions it because the suburban kids play it. The repetitiveness of hitting a hard ball with your bare head over and over as a teen and young adult causes long term damage.

Anonymous wrote:Football is so unpopular now that our football powerhouse HS takes every kid and could use more. 15 years ago, there were try outs that cut 1/2 the kids.

Best the top 5 kids on M or F soccer teams at our school is really hard. Ditto swimming and track/cc and basketball. Football? Nope.

Yet, colleges need more FB players than swimmers or soccer players.

Nobody cares about soccer in the US.