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    College Niche Sports/Fairfield County

    A not so rosy piece on niche college sports post covid and the wealthy burbs of CT


    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...ssions/616474/

    #2
    An apt description of too many parents on the soccer sidelines. They won't read that article after the first paragraph.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      An apt description of too many parents on the soccer sidelines. They won't read that article after the first paragraph.
      "My kid doesn't play squash, that's for rich people"

      - Fairfield County Soccer parent

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        #4
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        An apt description of too many parents on the soccer sidelines. They won't read that article after the first paragraph.
        you missed the point of the article.

        you should start asking your kid if you can listen in on her zoom english comprehension class.

        I feel bad for those parents......they tried to find a loop hole for the cultural bias liberal colleges have toward wealthy fairfield kids...but cancel culture caught up to them

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          #5
          If by liberal college you mean “they believe the world is round and not flat” I’m with you. I wouldn’t put Ivy League in the same class as small liberal arts colleges. Said differently, you know Eric Trump never would have made it into Georgetown if it came down to GPA and essays. Hence the need for people to explore sports as the in. Think about how many kids have a 3.85 or higher per high school each year, then multiply by the number of high schools... Having worked for and separately managed Ivy League grads they are a rare breed. Most are good, but some simply skate on that one achievement their whole life. This is the attraction a safety net.

          But you know it all doesn’t matter, we are about 6 years away from the end of college soccer scholarships as we know them. There is way too much organization occurring at the semi-pro and pro levels for things to stay the same. America has a lot

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            #6
            For many middle to upper income soccer families it is more about the hook into a better school. Top colleges get applications from two dozen kids from the SAME highly competitive high schools, thousands from across the US and globe. What is the hook that can get one kid the nod over the other? Sometimes it will be athletics, or winning some national science award or a musical protégé.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              If by liberal college you mean “they believe the world is round and not flat” I’m with you. I wouldn’t put Ivy League in the same class as small liberal arts colleges. Said differently, you know Eric Trump never would have made it into Georgetown if it came down to GPA and essays. Hence the need for people to explore sports as the in. Think about how many kids have a 3.85 or higher per high school each year, then multiply by the number of high schools... Having worked for and separately managed Ivy League grads they are a rare breed. Most are good, but some simply skate on that one achievement their whole life. This is the attraction a safety net.

              But you know it all doesn’t matter, we are about 6 years away from the end of college soccer scholarships as we know them. There is way too much organization occurring at the semi-pro and pro levels for things to stay the same. America has a lot
              “ we are about 6 years away from the end of college soccer scholarships as we know them. There is way too much organization occurring at the semi-pro and pro levels for things to stay the same. America has a lot”

              Please elaborate on this prediction.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                A not so rosy piece on niche college sports post covid and the wealthy burbs of CT


                https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine...ssions/616474/


                Woke Fairfield County moms realizing their social justice warrior work destroyed their own kids Ivy League chances by canceling their sports forever. Talk about injustices. 17 year old athletics thrown to the curb for wokeness and BLM.


                "Let’s be honest, there’s no way Stanford’s decision was financial,” a Darien squash mom confided to me after the university cut the sport. “I have a sinking certainty there are other strong invisible forces at work.” She was referring to something the Wall Street Journal reporter Melissa Korn noted in an article in July, though it’s hardly a mysterious plot. The “optics” of “country-club staples” such as squash and golf help explain why these sports got slashed. “At a time when racial justice and diversity have become a more open national conversation,” Korn wrote, “the sports being eliminated are the ones that tend to draw overwhelmingly white, often wealthy players.”

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  Korn wrote, “the sports being eliminated are the ones that tend to draw overwhelmingly white, often wealthy players.”
                  and? Why should those already advantaged kids get more advantages in the admissions process because they play some elite sport that lower and middle income families can't afford? The bigger sports still afford less advantaged kids at least some opportunities to get noticed by colleges - football, basketball, track and field and even soccer. This is not a new issue and has been talked about for the last several years. Schools were already re-evaluating the role many of those sports. Covid finances have helped push to the "urgent" pile.

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                    #10
                    Here's a timely example of the corrosive effect of big money and scholarships have on colleges:
                    LSU Self-imposes Sanctions on Football Team, Bans Browns’ Odell Beckham Jr. for Two Years

                    https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...odell-beckham/

                    Time to create an NFL minor league and get football out of college. End all sports scholarships.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      Here's a timely example of the corrosive effect of big money and scholarships have on colleges:
                      LSU Self-imposes Sanctions on Football Team, Bans Browns’ Odell Beckham Jr. for Two Years

                      https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...odell-beckham/

                      Time to create an NFL minor league and get football out of college. End all sports scholarships.
                      I've said this for years, that the NBA and NFL basically get free farm teams. It should be like baseball - minor league farm teams to develop your talent, not US universities.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        I've said this for years, that the NBA and NFL basically get free farm teams. It should be like baseball - minor league farm teams to develop your talent, not US universities.
                        Have you seen a college campus lately?
                        Football and basketball pay for that - boosters like sports

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          Have you seen a college campus lately?
                          Football and basketball pay for that - boosters like sports
                          Only in the top conferences/TV coverage teams. There's close to 900 men's football teams across all levels and 1300 men's basketball teams. They're not all making money or bringing in top coin from donors.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            I've said this for years, that the NBA and NFL basically get free farm teams. It should be like baseball - minor league farm teams to develop your talent, not US universities.
                            Pretty sure much if mlb draft is a small perce gave if studs out of hs, a fair amount of international players, and a ton of players from the ncaa. If you forced nba and nfl into a private minor league system if professional teams, the majority of scholarship players in those sports would forego college, not get an education, and then be promptly spit back to the projects they came from banged up, without money and with no education. You don't hear about the youth spit out by international soccer academies nearly as much as it happens, but if it was so worthwhile, promising, and financially sensible, I suppose you wouldn't have so many internationals banging down the doors at our universities to play college. Sorry soccer has never caught on here but ruining our other sports shouldn't make you feel better, loser.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              Pretty sure much if mlb draft is a small perce gave if studs out of hs, a fair amount of international players, and a ton of players from the ncaa. If you forced nba and nfl into a private minor league system if professional teams, the majority of scholarship players in those sports would forego college, not get an education, and then be promptly spit back to the projects they came from banged up, without money and with no education. You don't hear about the youth spit out by international soccer academies nearly as much as it happens, but if it was so worthwhile, promising, and financially sensible, I suppose you wouldn't have so many internationals banging down the doors at our universities to play college. Sorry soccer has never caught on here but ruining our other sports shouldn't make you feel better, loser.
                              *Small percentage of studs

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