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re: How Kids’ Sports Became a $15 Billion Industry
Posted on 1/18/19 at 10:39 am to AUjim
Posted on 1/18/19 at 10:39 am to AUjim
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kids are the next generation's "child star syndrome"
Huh.
Y’all have a strange perception of youth athletics. He plays baseball and soccer. Loved to hunt and fish. Goes to church. That all takes a lot of time.
But the vast majority of his time is playing in the water behind the house, shooting pellet rifles and playing football w his neighbirhiid buddies.
He is just a kid.
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Posted on 1/18/19 at 1:14 pm to Gaston
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You at least get your room paid for on tournament trips?
What club?
I coach my kids, but no. I don't get paid yet
We're in Arizona.
I became a coach because my trainer is so good that it would be a damn shame for him to quit. His DOC/partner fricked everything on every level a few years ago, and I went all over the place looking for anybody as good as him to teach my oldest... and was severely disappointed. So, I got licensed and learned the game, built a team for my younger two, and we are now stable again. I then got my trainer the HC job at the HS and transferred my oldest in. Now all three boys get Yoda as their profe, and I get to spend a shitload of time teaching my kids.
Posted on 1/18/19 at 1:23 pm to GetCocky11
quote:which is why HS officiating is suffering young officials cut their teeth and pay their dues at the kiddy level
This past fall was my first experience with officiating youth sports.
It will also be my last experience with officiating youth sports.
No thanks.
Posted on 1/18/19 at 4:54 pm to SoulGlo
Children sports industry is a racket. The Latin American feeder countries but more kids per capita into the major leagues and they play very few games. They practice like hell and envelop skill instead of playing in a bunch of stupid tournaments year round.
Posted on 1/18/19 at 5:00 pm to Pesticide
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Its supposed to be fun.
Well athlete salaries has priced "fun" out of the equation. Now if your kid has a dream to "play in X sports league", you feel obligated to put them on the same playing field as other kids. Fortunately all my kids are nerds and the biggest competition they ever take part in are spelling bees and chess tournaments. My dad rags me about it because we both were football players and all my kids are nerds.
This post was edited on 1/18/19 at 5:01 pm
Posted on 1/18/19 at 5:18 pm to East Coast Band
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But Joey Baseball has yet to learn cursive. He is, after all, only 10 years old. They snapped a picture instead.
How is this possible? Those old bitties that taught us showed us how to do this in second grade. Then when we learned it that made us do all our assignments in cursive for a 6 Weeks term. Is teaching cursive not a thing anymore?
Posted on 1/20/19 at 1:16 am to Tiger Ryno
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Children sports industry is a racket. The Latin American feeder countries but more kids per capita into the major leagues and they play very few games. They practice like hell and envelop skill instead of playing in a bunch of stupid tournaments year round.
I train these kids, and use the games to teach them. The problem in the US is that the coaches coach but don't develop them as players. They coach the players, and try to recruit better ones to make better teams. I prefer to make my own weapons, rather than use someone else's.
Posted on 1/20/19 at 6:46 am to razorbackpat
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coaches who know nothing and were just assigned that sport and don’t want to learn about it.
Do you blame them?
It’s bullshite that people go into teaching and get told their 40+ hour work week for a max of $45k/year (without additional schooling) isn’t enough and they need to add 20-30 hours of work to their week.
I think the levels of incompetency among high school coaches are pretty damn high outside of top programs who have the money to hire real coaches.
This post was edited on 1/20/19 at 6:48 am
Posted on 1/20/19 at 7:40 am to East Coast Band
IF a kid is not immediately successful, they are discarded by the system very quickly.
The body damage from overuse is real. When I was young, if someone got injured it was a fracture of a bone. Now it seems like many of the injuries are tendon, ligament, muscle from overuse.
The team is not the primary focus of this approach. I’m all for people developing to their full potential, but 7 years olds need more free play and they should be trying new things with the seasons.
The body damage from overuse is real. When I was young, if someone got injured it was a fracture of a bone. Now it seems like many of the injuries are tendon, ligament, muscle from overuse.
The team is not the primary focus of this approach. I’m all for people developing to their full potential, but 7 years olds need more free play and they should be trying new things with the seasons.
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