Yes, you're right. My point, sports that you get to "reset" are easier to get. In basketball or soccer, you can get lost so quickly.
But you're right, I am over-generalizing.
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Rusty, you're seriously underestimating the complexity of most team sports. My 10-year old is learning things in football, basketball, and football that I've never encountered as a fan. It seems simple when you play a pickup game in the back yard, but there are a lot of nuances and strategy that take time to learn.
McLovin, you're seriously missing the point of high school sports. Learning to work as a team, how to deal with victory and defeat, the value of hard work, there are many life lessons that can be learned from sports. Oh yeah, and they're fun too.
VERY FEW sports offer true full ride scholarships, most are partial payment at best. My wife and I went to a great "kids and sports" lecture by a former D1 football player where he talked through the reality of college sports. Bottom line was that you have to love to sport to make the sacrifices required to first get to a D1 level, and then allow it to dominate your college experience. Playing just for a scholarship isn't worth the time.
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