Sports industry - grift on famlees

It has become a trend for sports activities for brats to include traveling and additional grifts where the high charging coaches tend to be washed up players who never achieved success. From what I understand about from whiny parunts their brats can't even play some sports if they don't jump through all these hoops. These activities cost thousands of dollars annually just for entry.

Brats that are average at sports (over 95% of them) either travel or they get left behind and lose friends. Even if parunts see the grift they really can't win because if they say no to the traveling sports industry then they'll risk forever being the one who denied their kids their professional sports contracts. Even if the odds are around one a million that their brat would ever sign a sports contract. And even the pros typically have a pro career of five years or less and a decent amount warm the bench. And sports injuries haven't even been discussed, which sideline even the most promising athletes.

I've heard countless adults talk about how they missed out on being a pro in this sport or that. No, Karen...for starters you weren't scouted in high school. So, even grown adults think they were denied their golden opportunity.

But this is not the kind of thing a parunt can explain to a brat because even some adults have difficulty accepting that they had no chance of ever becoming a professional athlete under any circumstances. It is a very rare parent that raises their kids with humility and self-awareness and is honest enough to inform their kid they don't have the potential to play whatever sport beyond high school, if that.

I'm very happy to be childfree and not having to deal with this grift: expenses in the four digits plus shuttling to and from practice and traveling on the weekends.

Remember the scandal of parents paying coaches at elite unis to include their kids in a sports team so the rugrats could be accepted to those universities? Crew (team boat-rowing in races) was a big example.

Well, because of that, athletics departments realized that deluded parents would pay big $$$ to get their kids into a sport. It's trickled down. Now you see the result.

Some kids want to play a sport. But often the parents push their kid into playing because they want him/her to receive an athletic scholarship to pay for uni, and maybe even get a professional deal that would make the family wealthy. For most delusional pahrunts, they don't realize the odds are slim of any of that working.

A lot of parents seem to think if their kid can throw a ball, they're destined to be professional athletes. Sports should be treated like any other extra-curricular activity and not a career stepping stone. It's bad when signs have to be put up at fucking Little League games telling parents to stop harassing the coaches and screaming at the players. Your mediocre brat isn't getting drafted by the MLB, Daniel.

I would never let a kid take a sport, due to the costs of the uniforms/equipment and the cost to travel to away games. Like if you want to play sports, go play basketball at the park for free. I'd pay for an actually enriching activity like taking an instrument or a dance class, but as far as I'm concerned, sports are nothing more than games and people take them FAR too seriously. And I'm not paying for something that will result in a concussion.

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But often the parents push their kid into playing because they want him/her to receive an athletic scholarship to pay for uni, and maybe even get a professional deal that would make the family wealthy.

Or they want to live vicariously through their brats, either because they want to force the kid into the same sport they played or they want to force the kid into the sport they wanted to play, but couldn't get into. Because fuck what the kid wants or likes, if Daddy wants them to play football, then they need to play football, regardless of desire or skill level. And when they don't make the team, it's time to stomp into the school and bitch at the coach.

This scam is in no way new. I am a millennial and it has been running since I was in kindergarten. Breeders want to be paid back for raising their brats, so this is their "get rich quick" scheme...it rarely works out though because breeders don't accept their children for who they are and push their kids into activities that they have no aptitude for.

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