Teddy Checkdown in trouble

[frankw]

Kudos to Teddy for doing good in the community. We need more of that not less.

[NAS]

Meanwhile Epstein list of pedophiles and rapists is nowhere to be found

[hepcat]

Did not like Teddy as a football player but he seems like a good dude. I guess this is the “if you’re going to bring in a snack you need to bring enough for the whole class” penalty because of the care he gave to the team the other schools can’t compete. It’s a shame that doing good for some kids who likely have a rough home life is punished these days. 

[CRA]

given this is the NIL era (open bags of cash to play)......this is completely stupid. 

[LinvilleGorge]

2 hours ago, CRA said:

given this is the NIL era (open bags of cash to play)......this is completely stupid. 

What has happened in HS athletics busted full force into the college world with this NIL/transfer portal stuff. HS sports has been jacked up for a long time now. You have all these "prep schools" that are basically just diploma mills for athletes who hoover up all the good athletes they can get and they're all on scholarship. Then they go out and recruit decent athletes with rich parents to come onboard and pay outrageous tuition while they tout their success at getting their athletes college scholarships. Yeah, those athletes getting college scholarships are the same ones you're giving scholarships to so that you can use them to recruit the rich kids whose parents can pay for it all. You see the same thing in youth travel ball leagues. The whole thing is just getting crazy.

[CRA]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

What has happened in HS athletics busted full force into the college world with this NIL/transfer portal stuff. HS sports has been jacked up for a long time now. You have all these "prep schools" that are basically just diploma mills for athletes who hoover up all the good athletes they can get and they're all on scholarship. Then they go out and recruit decent athletes with rich parents to come onboard and pay outrageous tuition while they tout their success at getting their athletes college scholarships. Yeah, those athletes getting college scholarships are the same ones you're giving scholarships to so that you can use them to recruit the rich kids whose parents can pay for it all. You see the same thing in youth travel ball leagues. The whole thing is just getting crazy.

yeah, sports at all levels is screwed.   Agree w/ all you said. 

really wish rec leagues could break travel up and make a comeback.  99% of travel ball is just rec ball but with an insane price tag. 

[Jon Snow]

33 minutes ago, CRA said:

yeah, sports at all levels is screwed.   Agree w/ all you said. 

really wish rec leagues could break travel up and make a comeback.  99% of travel ball is just rec ball but with an insane price tag. 

Travel Ball is the way to get your kid a full scholarship. I have 2 coworkers that got their sons scholarships playing baseball. One even got both his sons in private schools that way. 

[CRA]

1 hour ago, Jon Snow said:

Travel Ball is the way to get your kid a full scholarship. I have 2 coworkers that got their sons scholarships playing baseball. One even got both his sons in private schools that way. 

overwhelming majority of kids in travel ball aren't getting scholarships though because most teams are rec caliber (and not watched by scouts)   

and parents/leagues sort of helped create this system and narrative IMO where travel ball is now oversaturated and most of it is simply expensive rec ball. 

is travel beneficial for some athletes to get more exposure? Sure. The ones travel actually existed for.   I still think travel has expanded entirely too broad at this stage......where they will now have 5 teams per year in your backyard area pending they can get parents to write those checks.   Ain't no scout ever laying eyes on 90%+ of the kids in travel ball at this stage of where it has morphed into.