[Evans, Marv]

I think your "I'm thinking" and "My initial thoughts" are great. I'd especially try to steer him in the direction of sports he can enjoy on a private basis through the years. I'd try to dissuade him from sports that take a certain amount of size, strength, maybe specialized & innate ability. Back in the day if you weren't participating in one of the "major" sports, you were considered to be slightly pussified. I remember my reaction to learning about the guys I knew that were on the golf team. What? That isn't a sport! I played on the football team ( I was one of those 150 lb. guys who ran a 9.9 hundred yard dash & got smashed up in the games) and was captain of the track team. Some of my buddies were in theater, singing groups, and other activities. At the time my attitude was to be a real guy, you had to be prominent in one of the major sports. It was only years later I realized these other guys weren't getting creamed on a daily basis or devoting major effort to just a couple of things. Plus another big thing was they were doing activities, and getting on good terms with lots of the hot female students. And guess what, there weren't any hot female students on most of the major sports teams - at least the ones I participated in. You are right in trying to get him to take the long term view.