I was with one of my reps in Rochester, NY this week. He is a college football official and has been involved with youth athletics for years. He was advising my other rep from Buffalo to get her daughter out of softball (where she is the starting shortstop on a high-level travel team) and into lacrosse. He said that the womens lacrosse coach at Nazareth College, a D3 school in upstate NY, just resigned and accepted the head coaching job at Fresno State where they will pay her $125K per year to build the program.


Kids play sports because they find it fun. Eliminate the fun and soon you eliminate the kid.