Anonymous wrote:There is certainly truth the number of D1 athletes who have children in these sports also succeeding and certainly genetics plays a role, but it's more than genetics. Those parents know the system, they know the game and they can impart knowledge that parents who haven't play the sport cannot help their kid with. Their kid also gets a whole lot of a respect by coaches that isn't always earned just because the parents were high level athletes. In turn they get more opportunity, more touches which leads to better development. I've seen it in multiple sports.

This is so true. It was really eye opening when DS moved up from a bad team in MoCo where no parents seemed to have played past middle school (and lots of parents yelled incoherently at refs and complained about coaching during games) to a good team in PG county where most of the parents played at a high level. I’m tall and fit, and other dads, assuming I played, would casually share insights that I’d have to go home and google to understand. Also, the only comments I ever heard about refs or the coaches were when parents replied to kid complaints with things like “I KNOW you’re not whining to me about calls, right?” And “Why are you talking to me? He’s the coach.” It was really great.

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Anonymous wrote:There is certainly truth the number of D1 athletes who have children in these sports also succeeding and certainly genetics plays a role, but it's more than genetics. Those parents know the system, they know the game and they can impart knowledge that parents who haven't play the sport cannot help their kid with. Their kid also gets a whole lot of a respect by coaches that isn't always earned just because the parents were high level athletes. In turn they get more opportunity, more touches which leads to better development. I've seen it in multiple sports.

I don't think Tom Brady's parents were D1 athletes, just sports fans who encouraged and supported their kids in sports. Tom's sisters were also successful athletes.

Do you really think things haven't changed in the 30-40 years since Tom Brady was a youth athlete? PP hit the nail the head with the inherent, astronomical advantage that children of elite athletes have in sports

Anonymous wrote:There is certainly truth the number of D1 athletes who have children in these sports also succeeding and certainly genetics plays a role, but it's more than genetics. Those parents know the system, they know the game and they can impart knowledge that parents who haven't play the sport cannot help their kid with. Their kid also gets a whole lot of a respect by coaches that isn't always earned just because the parents were high level athletes. In turn they get more opportunity, more touches which leads to better development. I've seen it in multiple sports.

I don't think Tom Brady's parents were D1 athletes, just sports fans who encouraged and supported their kids in sports. Tom's sisters were also successful athletes.