Children making decisions

Hiding behind the screen huh? It's really not that hard to find out who is behind a screen name. All you have to do is ask and plenty can tell. If you REALLY don't agree with these early verbal as you say, then why are you embracing them & promoting them??? Really seems to be contradiction between what you say and what you do. I guess based on how you rationalize things with a 10 year olds having cell phone (mine didn't), 15 year old driving on permits (but this can only be done with ADULT SUPERVISION) and families having "their crap together" as you so eloquently mentioned, I guess your ideology would be acceptable to some but not all or even most. As far as any type of blame on you, that whole different story all together but I think that organizations like your serve your OWN INTEREST before others.


"College coaches set the bar for recruiting travel ball coaches don't" this only happens when you put 14U players in front of them so don't go putting this on college coaches when you're on the ones putting these tournaments in place. You referenced that it's up to the player's to prepare to be successful but, that is the coaches job to prepare and help guide these young girls so they can make good competent & sound decisions. Additionally, there is also a responsibility to help the parents as well and NOT let both child & parent(s) get caught up in the glamorization of the recruiting process and make foolish decisions at such a young & very impressionable age. I appalled any kid for trying to make their dream come true but at 14 or younger...... come on, give me a break. Lets say child came into a large sum of money ($1,00,000.00 plus dollars) by your ideology it would be perfectly fine for a 14 year old to handle and mange this amount of money? That sounds ridiculous doesn't it and so does letting a 14 year old make a decision about going to college.


By the way great softball guru, you have still yet to answer the question, how young is to young????

 

Here we go again. We get it... you would not let your daughter commit early and would tell the schools "No." We all have opinions.


By the way, you are really implying that some pretty good softball coaches are not doing their job. Some of the best ever in NC.

 

Your analogy makes no sense.

 

94. I'm thinking that 14 year olds aren't making these decisions to commit without guidance and help from their parents. Do you believe that they are?

 

The thing is I doubt that most of the parents of these 14 year olds are just giving "guidance". They are very influential to an impressionable child.

Parents making decisions of where a child goes to college is a recipe for disaster and is just asking for a very unhappy student in a myriad of ways.

Because the decision on where to attend school should be 95% dictated by the student and 14 year olds are not ready to handle such decisions, it is not that complicated.

I don't care if my child is Lauren Chamberlain, she wouldn't be allowed to be even thinking about committing until the summer before Junior year.

 

Cheese - is that the only measure of whether a good decision was made? Any other outcome means a bad decision?

 

Man you are really jaded by a few. There are a lot of good people in this game for the right reasons.


If you re going to track the freshman commitments and gauge success, what are you comparing it to? How many junior commitments don't finish their 4 years of college? Seniors? What is the baseline?

 

Why doesn't it make sense? If you think a child has the mental capacity at age 14 to make a decision that has finical implications then my analogy is perfectly logical