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Great post at the top.

Kids should have fun while they are young.

And--it seems like basketball coaches are the ones who always demand that their kids ONLY play basketball.

Please kids--have fun now while you are young. Don't wait until you are out of school and wonder if you would have been any good at playing a different sport. Chances are, if you are good at basketball, you could be good at another sport.

And remember--the one thing that basketball coaches DO NOT TELL YOU is that the odds are definitely against you. A basketball team gets 13 scholarships. A football team gives 85. And big, tall, lanky athletes are WANTED in football. They are a dime a dozen in basketball.

Use your head. Don't let the coach make all of your decisions for you.

I don't know where you live at but around here its football coaches that influence kids to play only football. I know for a fact that this year a kid was asked to go ahead and have a minor surgery during baskebtall season so he could be ready for spring football practice. This kid is a starter on the freshmen and JV basketball team. Football is not the only sport.........


And odds are not against you, there are 5 times the amount of schools that play basketball D-1(118 football vs 334 basketball) alone, That number grows as you drop level D-II, D-III, NAIA because schools don't have football.

WAKE UP, there is more to life than football.........