Does not help that PutyPut is a one trick economic pony.
When my youngest son moved to Texas after graduating college, he has been heavily recruited by oil companies but they are boom and bust operations. I told him if he gets in on the very high end, but lives like a pauper to save up for the dead end, he’d be okay. Looks like he was wise to “think about it for a bit.” It’s already in the bust phase!
While he supposedly looking for a real job, he’s currently “suffering” through coaching a big high school lax team. They’ve moved up to division one and doubled the team size, and with his connections across the country to lax coaches, he’s gotten some kids into good colleges. So a lot of parents want their kids playing lax with him. He does not make a bunch of money, but he’s in lax heaven.
He’s talking about starting up some lax summer programs for high school and under kids (younger brothers and their friends want to play so he organized grades 4-8 lax teams this year) and that is where the money is.
Up until he arrived, football was the only game in town. Now Lacrosse is catching on big time. There is football and then there is armed football in a Northeastern, gentlemanly, sort of way. You are treated like absolute dirt if you INTENTIONALLY injure a player. My son will kick you off the team in the most humiliating way possible a nanosecond. He’s booted two hot-headed, abet good players and now everyone knows that Lax is not football and you DO NOT want to get the coach mad at you. It’s more dangerous so you need to exercise absolute self control.
I live in a big Lax town. It is a great sport. I am glad to see it starting to grow.
I still like baseball, but the speed of the sport is just amazing. I am a sports photographer and I have done some MLL games—which is like heaven to someone who enjoys the game.
Tell him to do what he loves for as long as he can. Even a couple of years won’t kill his chances for an alternative career—and there are plenty of connections to be made as a coach.
Good for him. Tell him to have fun.