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Kids who do “travel” sports all kill selves in their 20s now
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Date: April 1st, 2026 9:34 AM Author: clothmo plan accordingly gibberish and dupa
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Date: April 1st, 2026 9:40 AM Author: dupa “Elite” youth sports is a deranged culture. It’s terrible for kids mental health and families overall.
Last year I moved my older kids to a club with a strong team but a culture that understands that kids have lives outside of soccer. The message I try to send them is that soccer is a fun activity and that’s it. I don’t want them to feel any pressure to perform well on the field out of obligation to someone else or that their value as a person is in any way tied to their athletic achievements. |
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Date: April 1st, 2026 10:11 AM Author: George Jetson My son does travel soccer and he enjoys it, but some of the parents act like their kid is going to the world cup.
Example of this-our travel club breaks down into three levels- ECNL, Challenge, Classic. Within Challenge and classic, there are red and blue teams, with blue being the better of the two. My son isn't a world beater, but is ok, so he was ok being placed on classic. Within the classic, he missed the day they evaluated for blue vs. red, so he was placed on red. Little disappointed, but it's 12 year old soccer, so we told him to suck it up life isn't always fair. Coach realizes he should've been on blue, so he ends up playing in both red and blue games, which means that we've gone to a lot of soccer games since January.
The parents of some of the kids on blue are absolutely insane. For some reason, they like my kid because he's decent, but if any other red kid plays in a blue game, they get irate. Once, for a tournament, the club mixed red and blue together and had like half and half for two teams in a tournament and both teams lost a game and some of these parents refuse to have their kid even play on a mixed team any so little timmy doesn't have to play with kids who aren't good. Even if a blue player makes a mistake, they get pissed and throw their hands up like wtf is this kid doing.
Blue and red players are in same "pool" so we're all on a single group chat to coordinate games. Parents of blue and red are arguing about why the club seems to focus on blue team and not red etc. One time, a substitute coach had to coach a game and that coach sat on his phone the entire time during the game. Parents complained like you would not believe and one kid's parents didn't let him play in the next game to "punish" the club for the substitute coach's behavior. Like dude, who gives a shit. |
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Date: April 1st, 2026 10:22 AM Author: dupa Spoiler alert: you have your kid playing at a toxic club. You have the right values but I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment of the lunacy of the parents. I left the “academy” scam. Current club also has 3 levels at every age and in both genders. But they don’t have an elite league badge like ECNL, GA or MLS Next. My kids are on their top teams which sound like a similar level as the team your son is on. I’d just much rather they be on the top teams at a club rather than the 2nd or 3rd team with delusional striver parents and a club that sees you just as revenue. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49785643) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2026 5:36 AM Author: Long PlayroomPoon Clown Conniption ( ) this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49788415) |
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Date: April 1st, 2026 10:27 AM Author: Richard Ames These people are just losers. They probably just want some way to brag to their "friends" and are using their kids for this purpose. Very sick world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49785658) |
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Date: April 1st, 2026 5:29 PM Author: dupa 100%. it's not even living vicariously through the kids. it's broadcasting your child's athletic feats as an indicator of how great a parent you are.
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Date: April 1st, 2026 11:30 PM Author: George Jetson Yeah it’s sort of sad. Most of those who are this invested are retired military where the dad is retired and the wife works at some menial job. They more wealthy ones seem more grounded, but it’s probably bc they realize grades matter more than sports long term (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49788234) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2026 5:32 AM Author: computer online (🧐) nyuug is right about american wypipo. We deserve to die and I hope we burn in hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49788414) |
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Date: April 1st, 2026 9:43 AM Author: Bogdanoff there are so few routes left to maek it, what else do you want them to do? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49785530) |
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Date: April 1st, 2026 9:51 AM Author: .,.,...,..,.,..:,,:,......,;:.,.:..:.,:,::,. Sports, gambling on sports, and slutting it up on Onlyfans are the only career paths for kids these days (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49785548) |
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Date: April 1st, 2026 9:52 AM Author: Bogdanoff dont forget becoming a streamer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49785552) |
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Date: April 1st, 2026 10:23 AM Author: .,.,...,..,.,..:,,:,......,;:.,.:..:.,:,::,. A damn fine career (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49785650) |
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Date: April 1st, 2026 5:31 PM Author: ""''"'"'"'". dang (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49787020) |
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Date: April 1st, 2026 11:57 PM Author: .,.,,...,...,..,....,...,...,... In all seriousness, if you have too much money for financial aid, your only hope of getting a scholarship for college is to be good at sports. Or if you are dead set on the Ivy tier of schools, it is far easier to be admitted if you are an athlete. So, there are strong incentives for parents to take it extremely seriously. Especially for boys, when there are so few scholarships available for any sport other than football. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49788285) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2026 12:11 AM Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,, I don't get the level of.delusion and idiocy where people think putting 10k per year into a sport for a 3% chance your kid is good enough and not.injured enough to get a scholarship is anything but delusions of grandeur.
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Date: April 2nd, 2026 4:13 AM Author: H-Value Do merit scholarships not exist anymore? I had SPS GPA but a baller SAT score and copped a full ride at a decent college. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49788407) |
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Date: April 1st, 2026 5:35 PM Author: sealclubber huh, there's a direct correlation between all of these suicides and children who were fucked by shitlib covid policies, too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49787027) |
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Date: April 1st, 2026 5:37 PM Author: Ricky Pitino less goyim who cares (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49787032) |
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Date: April 1st, 2026 5:38 PM Author: AIDS dicknigger Dude was probably vaxxed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49787036) |
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Date: April 1st, 2026 11:31 PM Author: Peter Tealbook Their dads fuck them. That's why (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49788237) |
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Date: April 1st, 2026 11:49 PM Author: Fyre festival founder Is it true the parents of travel sports kids are all having affairs with each other? That’s what the streets are saying (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49788271) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2026 12:26 AM Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,, Its crazy how competitive this stuff is now. My kid is 7 and does other sports during the year, but I put him in rec league soccer.in the spring.
There are two more serious leagues above him, and even still, all these kids have way better soccer skills then him.
He can play because he's probably 95% in speed and effort, but if my younger son was doing it he'd probably have to sit on the bench most of.the game - as a 7 year old - playing rec soccer....
Its kind of wild because I feel like when I grew up even fat and autistic kids could play until like 8th grade and now there are no non serious games starting at age 8. |
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Date: April 2nd, 2026 1:22 AM Author: gibberish (?) I doubt any of my kids will be that good. They're safe. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5852294&forum_id=2#49788357) |