re: Anyone who believes private equity is good for college football is a hapless rube

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You guys are funny, Youth sports have never been better than today. Literally any sport your child enjoys can essentially be played year round because people have found a way to monetize dumb parents. My son played travel ball which was awesome. But we didn’t go over the top with it like these threads always suggest. It’s no different than fat people going to pizza buffets everyday. It’s not the buffets fault you can’t control yourself.

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No, you're funny and not too bright. There is no comparison between the current landscape of college sports and youth sports/travel ball.

Soccer travel ball is a reason listed for the failure of the US to attract and develop elite soccer players. Travel ball is expensive for parents and it seems to have taken the place of youth sports vehicles from long ago. I live in an affluent suburb of Jacksonville and frankly it galls me to have kids looking for donations for their travel ball when their parents are driving them away in their Lexus and BMWs.

I will give you this: both travel ball parents and college boosters have an insatiable desire to fund whatever it takes to be competitive or "cool".

I mean...CFB fell apart once back-ups started making millions...it will prob get worse. Players will soon be able to transfer to rivals during the season or some shite.

Johnny,
I didn’t bring up travel ball or youth sports initially someone else did. All I pointed out is that without investments by someone a lot of kids would never even have access to play a sport. Sure, if you look at the extreme end of crazy parents paying tens of thousands of dollars and use them as examples it’s nuts. But there are also a lot of non crazy expensive local tournaments out there that gives a lot of kids a chance to play. In my little area of South Georgia if it wasn’t for local summer tournaments (not the mega ones in Atlanta or Florida) a lot of kids would be sitting in their butts playing video games and getting fat. And AAU hoops has been incredible for the poor kids who can find sponsors to help them play.

Like I said, I wish this stuff was around back in the 70’s and 80’s for my generation to have a venue to play games all summer.

And to bring up soccer as an example is ridiculous. The reason we don’t do anything in soccer is because our best youth athletes do not play that sport. The best black athletes play football and hoops and the best white athletes play football, baseball, and in some regions lacrosse, Sure, there are structural issues within the soccer community but until they get the future Steph Curry’s or Chipper Jones to play soccer it’s going to be tough to compete with cultures whose only sport is soccer.

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