The Layers Of Issues With Our Youth Sporting Landscape Travel Well Beyond The Field.
Adults are breeding entitlement into them and aren't even self-aware enough to recognize it.
“The fact that we are raising a generation of kids to believe they should be competing in sport more than they should be physically preparing for them is a microcosm of our world.
It’s ignorance.
‘Why are Gen Z kids like tha..’
Do you seriously wonder why?
Because of adults.”
-Ray Zingler on X
Not only is it ignorant and irresponsible..
It’s outright dangerous and counter to their development.
Physiology and being duped by a system chasing your bread are two totally different things.
“Yeah, but he wants to play in college!”
Awesome.
Do you know what it’s like in college?
It’s 12 months of physical preparation and maybe 4 months of a season.
Let’s do some math, 1/3 of the athletes time is spent competing and 3/3 is spent physically preparing.
But let’s take it a step further.
Baseball plays the most at 3 times per week (in their again, non-year-round season), basketball is sometimes twice, and football/soccer/lacrosse/etc. usually play once per week.
Do you know what’s happening in the life of a college athlete beyond the minimal amount of time spent competing?
They are training 500+% more than they are competing.
But our kids today are playing 3-5 times per week?
And “don’t have time” for physical preparation?
And then some coach is going to give them some bullshit motivational speech about “doing the little things” and “preparing like who it is you want to become.” “Act like ya been there!” Lol.
And then they get in the car and you tell them “if you want to be like ‘x’ you have to act like ‘x’”..
Well, you know what our kids’ sporting behaviors and lifestyles mirror?
Abso-fucking-lutley nothing like the behaviors and lifestyles of college athletes.
Why are kids going to college and leaving their sport after a year or 2?
I can tell you this, it’s not because “he just didn’t love it anymore..”
He just tells you that to soften the blow from the money you paid to go to tournaments nobody cares about.
The reason he hangs it up is because he wasn’t cut out for it.
He wasn’t prepared and taught to value the right things in his prep career and the work buried him.
And then you know what happens?
He drinks beer, does his thing, get’s that “dEgReE” and then goes into the real world continuing to believe he can avoid the work.
He feels owed because you convinced him that he only has to taste sweet.
Entitlement, you ask?
You’re breeding it into him from the jump.