I have been around youth sports for 20 years and the kids do not quit because of presure they quit when they are not the best or they can not handle not being good with out trying.Sports are like life. You have to deal with the hard/ crappy parts to have and be good at the good parts. How many people work with someone that is smart enough to be the boss but they are scared of the presure and spotlight of being the boss. Kids today are blind to the real world in everything they do. The more they can see the real world the better they will be.
You have been around sports for 20 years and learned nothing then. Kids love sports. It is the best part of being a kid and the fastest and best way to make lasting friendships for a boy. Outside of the lacrosse myopia are millions of high school kids playing JV sports and playing HS varsity sports for no ambition beyond winning a letter and having a heck of a lot of fun. Can't suit up for the team when you are 40. It crushes me to read people think it is ok that kids take off the helmet for the last time and pick up the remote as an early teen because a sport has been designed to be no fun at all. The elite kids in any sport happen anyways. I played youth hockey with a guy who made the NHL. It was ok for me to play all through high school and love it, and I loved it no less than he did. He was just luckier to be able to play a kids' game longer. Whoever wrote this never did "it". Make All America, do anything great. Nobody who did anything great in a sport and was rewarded would ever write that.
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