Most youth sports is a similar scam. I have a friend who pays something like $14000 a year so his kid can travel around and kick a ball.
“Oh, but he might get a scholarship” So what, you’ve paid for his entire education and wasted every single weekend of your life in the process.
One of several reasons why soccer hasn’t caught on in the US is because we took what should be the cheapest sport there is and turned it into a racket that costs parents thousands of dollars every year.
**“Oh, but he might get a scholarship” So what, you’ve paid for his entire education and wasted every single weekend of your life in the process.**
I’ve attended a few of my 10 yr old grandson’s in the past. He’s got athleticism in his genes: his dad a state champ linebacker, his mom a gymnastics co-captain at Bama (her mom was as well, and her dad QB of 80 Nat Champ Tide).
The kid isn’t interested in it. Didn’t play in a flag fb league last year either. I think he got burnt out. Parents too.
The sports industrial complex: making life harder and more expensive one family at a time.
My boys were finishing up their youth sports careers just as travel teams were getting off the ground. And I thank the Lord. I would have opened a wrist if I’d been obliged my weekends traveling to towns 50-150 miles away to attend their games