re: Travel ball is getting a lot less crowded for little Jaxson and Brayden

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My daughter played t ball and it was bad enough she didn’t want to play this year. We just practice at home which is what she actually liked.

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starting working on them overhand velo and 60ft times now. she a slapper or swing away hitter?

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After 5 or 6 years of this college would be fully funded, correct?

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or you could just have a job where college isnt a big expense and you just pay it every semester. hell LSU is cheaper than my kids private school and I pay for all 3 now.

despite what the OT loves to think....there are people that have good jobs that make plenty to support a couple kids in private school, playing travel, live very very comfortably and still have plenty to just write a check for college

but again...why the frick is the OT so obsessed with how others spend their money?

we have a 7 page thread of people complaining about how others spend their money. how those people only live through their kids...without even knowing the parents or the kids.

i can tell you....my kid would work on baseball 7 days a week multiple hours a day and does on his own and is now 11 and has since he was 7

my 7 year old that is about to be 8, sets a damn alarm so he can wake up 30 min before i wake them up so he can go hit 2-3 buckets of balls before school...he does this 3-4 times a week plus on the weekends. he begs for me to go play with him as soon as i get off work and if its raining wants to hit in the garage.

and before someone says something about grades...all 3 of my kids are in the gifted program and none of them have ever made a B on a report card. Hell i dont think they have ever made anything below a 95 and they do homework first thing when they get home.

so how about the OT stop worrying so much about how others spend their money and what others are doing.

It's hilarious hearing these parents spend 5/6k a year from age 7 to age 18 so their kid has a slim chance at a scholarship that at best will be 33% a year. So they spend 50/60k for a slim chance at a scholarship worth 15/20k over 4 years at. Not a very good ROI.

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As someone graduated in physics from LSU…how is this even possible? You’re just going hop past Modern into E&M and Mechanics (both sophomore, 2XXX, level) with your high school math classes? I can’t even imagine that first semester.

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its crazy....my kids will enter into HS already completed algebra 1 and geometry. they will take algebra 2 freshman year, advanced math/trig soph, take ap calc junior year, then prolly do dual enrollment and knock out calc 2 and calc 3 as seniors. same with the sciences.....they will take dual enrollment physics 1 & 2 as seniors if they want.


i dunno if im gonna let them load up that much as seniors but its possible to enter college with at the following level

math- Diff EQ or Calc 3, hell even Linear algebra/adv calc if you take summer classes

science- 1st 2 chemistries complete, physics 1&2 complete

English- 1 & 2 complete

foreign language- complete

its nuts the classes offered. i couldnt imagine trying to take statics and dynamics as a freshman though.

The tougher spot is that most kids will be pushed down to Jr College to play ball…and that doesn’t really match their level of competence in the classroom.

I always saved money for state colleges, if you can beat that offer then go ahead…if you think you’re going to play soccer at Pearl River Community College you are slap wrong.

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what's the roi on a beach and disney trip?

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Memories you make with your family? I played multiple sports in high school (no travel sports, don't think that existed when i was young). I can't tell you what happened at any practice, and can remember a few details of some games. I can paint a vivid picture of vacations our family took to South Dakota, Colorado, Canada (we drove). I can still feel the cold air on the ferry across a lake that was still as glass. I can tell you about my first experience horseback riding in Colorado.

We didn't take a lot of vacations, but i remember just about every single one of them in vivid detail.

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Could it possibly be the fact that they play 28 games during the week and 39 games on the weekend for 10months out of the year?

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if you play travel, you arent playing during the week. thats rec ball and its way harder imo.

max you play on a weekend is 6 games

we work and have no problem doing multiple kids in multiple sports.

and your aunt and uncle choose to do that. My parents choose to do the same for all of their grandkids. they go to my neices cheer and dancing competition all over the nation, they go to my kids games and follow them, they go to my other neices soccer games in BR, they go to my nephews sports games.

they still travel all over the country on their own as they are retired. they spend lots of time during the week at the camp fishing.

life is what you make it.

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if you play travel, you arent playing during the week

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Not so fast my friend. Alot of local sport complexes do games during the week with local travel ball teams competing.

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I just dropped in to see the inevitable hilarious takes in this thread. Entertainment sought and boy did you deliver! Yours is the most narcissistic and douche bag level post in the thread.

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is it? how many kids do you have playing sports?

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Not so fast my friend. Alot of local sport complexes do games during the week with local travel ball teams competing.

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in baton rouge?

the good travel ball orgs around BR practice during the week, they do not play

traction, pelicans, rays, saints, cage, nationals, knights...they all play weekend tournaments, not week days.