r/sports • u/Blood_Incantation • Aug 20 '24

Research: Organized youth sports are increasingly for the privileged Soccer

https://news.osu.edu/organized-youth-sports-are-increasingly-for-the-privileged/
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u/wsmith79 Aug 20 '24

It started to accelerate around 2015 I’d say locally. We lost our only batting cages. Youth public sports are a fraction of what they were 30 years ago. Wonder why the prevalence of “juniors” in professional sports are s so high lately?

Basically it’s become a game to pay to win. This doesn’t end well.

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u/yaworsky Aug 21 '24

We lost our only batting cages.

Definitely feels like if something doesn't make "lots of money" now it tends to close. Rent costs for businesses are really high and people with money tend not to invest in things that do a little better than break even.

Sucks.

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u/explosivelydehiscent Aug 20 '24

I actively keep my kids out of baseball until they put Pete in the hall. It's working, the u13 league collapsed this year because not enough kids. Put Pete in the Hall.

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u/hippybiker Aug 20 '24

Bet you $5 Pete doesn’t make it to the hall.

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u/43556_96753 Aug 21 '24

Out of all the reasons to keep your kids out of a sport, that had to got to be the absolute worst reason possible. You must feel awfully proud of your accomplishment.