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[QUOTE="PhatOrange, post: 4847873, member: 229"]
forget about college scholarships.  people are investing in club/travel just to make their school teams (basketball, soccer, baseball, softball, lacrosse).  they have to keep up with the jones because if they don't the kid might get cut.  There's some politics in it for sure, but kids who play out of season are naturally, better than those who don't.

Unfortunately kids don't cut their teeth in the backyards anymore so (outside of the top natural athletes) if you think you're going to make the team just playing once a year it's unlikely and if you do you're at the bottom.

youth travel hockey is stupid and these people are nuts.  It's not even about the HS teams it's about making it big.  I know so many hockey parents who spent thousands and thousands and not one of them even went to college for hockey let alone sniffing dreams of the NHL.  Most of these kids are washed up and some have had surgery's or walk with limps before 20.
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