Class of 2044 Recruit: I Blame the Parents

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Prayers up for the mother.

Searels and Smart need to land a chopper at the hospital and bring some 6-month old sized Georgia gear to the maternity ward. They better hurry, the offers are coming in fast.

Now that’s just parody and snark, but it has a tinge of reality. After all, art imitates life. Case in point:

It’s already happening with 8U players.

Yesterday I asked a question regarding “who the hell has the money” to entertain spending millions to make a team relevant again, but I forgot that, on the other end, there is an abundance of folks out there looking to sell their kids to the highest bidder thanks to their athletic talents. After spending to showcase them at camps, it’s now another cash cow for the youth league alpha parents who are going to cash in quick.

I can’t necessarily fault a parent, to be honest. Still, the chance your thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in youth sports, travel leagues, trips, etc., actually turning into a scholarship are low, and I’d image getting a huge NIL payout is lower. But it’s certainly enticing, ain’t it?

It’s a sellers market in college sports. Buyer beware.

12 thoughts on “Class of 2044 Recruit: I Blame the Parents”

  1. Iā€™m still laughing at the height/weight combo on that transfer portal post, and wishing they had his 40 time on there!

  2. Just think if those parents invested the money they put into travel ball into a Path529 college fund or some other investment instead. They would have college covered easily.

    The only way I would have invested any significant money into sports would have been of my boys were good enough to play at a D1 or a really good academic school like a Princeton or something. They didn’t have the genetics for that. We just did rec leagues and school sports. Only thing we spent money on was pitching and hitting lessons to keep pace a little with all the baseball travel kids when it came time for competing to play for their school. Other than that the only camps they did were for fun or with the school team. We even declined Dixie Youth All-star teams so they could go to regular summer camp and go on family vacations in the summer.

  4. 8th graders are announcing where they are going to play in high school now. Some middle schooler at Mill Creek announced with a commitment graphic that heā€™s going to Gainesville.

    It makes me want to puke.

  5. My daughter was born large and is tall for her age (11). Mom is 6’2″ so it’s in the genes. At a playground when she was about 2yo, there was another little boy are dwarfed her in size. He was taller and built like a house and was roughly the same age after talking to the Mom who was 6’+. Turns out the boy’s Dad was 6’9″ and combined with the Mom’s height, it’s no surprise that kid was HUGE. I then realized what a future NFL offensive lineman looks like as a toddler.

  6. If that kid was born via natural childbirth, I’m not sure if I should feel more sorry for the mom or the dad.

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