Everybody's arguing about youth sports right now, whether it's too expensive, whether pay-to-play is killing our development. I can't speak on soccer, don't know that world. But I know hoops. Lived it as a player, lived it as a dad, and I run a program too. And here's what I know. The "it's too expensive to develop talent" argument doesn't hold up the way people think, at least not in hoop. Yeah, most parents are getting bled dry on team fees and tournament costs and hotels. No doubt. But the kids who actually make it? The real 1%? They're not paying a dime. A lot of them, in fact, are getting paid, under the table or over it. Many of the great ones get ID'd early and everything flips. The sneaker brands come. The grassroots circuit takes care of them. Wealthy folks who just love hoops want them at their prep school, their AAU team, their college. The bill disappears. So yeah. The 99% are getting killed out here. But the 1%, the ones who actually land as DI starters and NBA players, never see that bill. Maybe that's good, maybe it's bad. I'm just telling you what I've seen.

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