Youth sports
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Nov 3, 2026
Brice CriderGUEST
And I do think very much.
Brice CriderGUEST
I mean, I've got lots of comments about like private equity and youth sports and how disgusting I think it is now.
Brice CriderGUEST
These people need to get out of our country.
Brice CriderGUEST
But really, it's just like private equity and tort law are the biggest issues in youth sports.
Brice CriderGUEST
It's like children cannot go to a local park that is safe and play unsupervised.
Brice CriderGUEST
And this is the number one thing we need for children to become dexterous movers is unsupervised play.
Jeff KrushellGUEST
Matt, say it.
Jeff KrushellGUEST
Money? Yes, the industrialization of youth sports.
Jeff KrushellGUEST
So in Time Magazine, 2017, Google this.
Jeff KrushellGUEST
Parents, coaches, sport administrators, Google this.
Kyle ScottHOST
I want to go back.
Kyle ScottHOST
There's so many different angles we could take with you, but I want to talk specifically about the demand around these truly premium experiences when it comes to youth sports.
Kyle ScottHOST
I think historically, even the larger venues, people kind of think of, hey, the turf and the playing surfaces are really high quality.
Kyle ScottHOST
But the overall experience is fine.
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Kyle ScottHOST
And travel is a big part of the cost in a lot of areas.
Kyle ScottHOST
We've always, I think, gently pushed back on that in our newsletter and on the podcast.
Kyle ScottHOST
It oversimplifies what's going on in youth sports.
Kyle ScottHOST
And the way in my head I've broken it down I think there's this kind of like one size fits all approach and a lot of what you'll see the mainstream coverage of youth sports.
Sebastian ManiscalcoHOST
So I would get this from my father, but I felt like it motivated me to play better maybe the next time.
Sebastian ManiscalcoHOST
What's your take on youth sports today from what you're seeing and when you came up? Was there a lot of pressure on you to be good at a young age when you were playing?
Alex RodriguezGUEST
Yeah, that's an interesting one because I have a lot of thoughts here, but what I would say is that It's funny you mentioned your dad telling you suck on the way home.
Alex RodriguezGUEST
And I know you're kind of saying it in jest and maybe not so in jest, but 92% of kids today, they quit their sport when they're around that age on the way home, driving with their parents.
Brian RiveraHOST
There's a lot of threads we can pull here.
Brian RiveraHOST
I really want to talk about youth sports, but I want to give you some more context on this so we can make sure from a parent's perspective and a coach's perspective.
Brian RiveraHOST
As a parent, it's great to see the cone drills, the line drills, the layups, all that good stuff, the weaves.
Brian RiveraHOST
It looks structured.
Giovanni PaciniHOST
Checking boxes, checking boxes, checking boxes.
Giovanni PaciniHOST
We are going to check just one big box today, and that is remembering, remembering what sports, particularly youth sports, are really about.
Giovanni PaciniHOST
And this is a piece from Jay Atkinson from the Boston Globe magazine.
Giovanni PaciniHOST
It's called Boston Uncommon, A Perspective.
Giovanni PaciniHOST
He also said his six-year-old son and his neighbor's boy were hockey craze best friends, or at least they used to be.
Giovanni PaciniHOST
His neighbor's son was not selected for the might team that first year, and the two men and their boys have not spoken to each other since.
Giovanni PaciniHOST
In brief, that's exactly what's wrong with youth sports.
Giovanni PaciniHOST
Too much money.
Corey LeffHOST
It was during the spring.
Corey LeffHOST
And what caused me to reach out to you, if you recall, was when you launched the first youth sports league to be operated by a division one athletic department.
Corey LeffHOST
I thought that was particularly novel.
Corey LeffHOST
Did you initially view that as a community initiative, meaning a way to develop future fans, or is that a new business line for university? And is it possible that we could see that model replicated at Syracuse?
Bryan BlairGUEST
We had lots of space in terms of competitive fields and facilities that were not being used 365.
Bryan BlairGUEST
We had student athletes that needed NIL and were willing to lean in and possibly be coaches or assistant coaches or refs or whatever it may be.
Bryan BlairGUEST
And so you combine all of that and say, golly, youth sports is a $40 billion industry.
Bryan BlairGUEST
There's a lot of people paying a lot of money to send their kids all over the country to participate in these things.
MichaelHOST
Okay.
MichaelHOST
How about this one? Kids sports, youth sports.
MichaelHOST
Do we do them? Do we let our kids do multiple sports at the same time? Do we overschedule them? Like, how do we handle these sports?
GabrielleHOST
Well, we did an episode on this.
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MichaelHOST
Now we kind of, we want to change a little bit.
MichaelHOST
So we have an entire episode on that.
MichaelHOST
I think we can call it like, do we, do we hate youth sports? Which obviously we don't, but it's more of like that.
MichaelHOST
You want to know more about how we've come to that and why we think I'm not going to get to why we think multiple sports is not helpful for your kid.
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Cell phone video shows three-year-old Nevada running circles around his competition.
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The call reportedly came from the youth sports director after some parents got upset that their kids weren't getting a chance at the ball.
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They called the police? The police arrived and asked Nevada and his family to leave.
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Nevada's parents tonight saying the league offered them a refund and told them he could play in another league hours away for free.
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Welcome to the Pure Athlete Podcast, where we sit down with notable athletes, top coaches, and leading experts to share valuable insights, advice, and inspiring stories.
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Whether you're a parent, coach, or young athlete, our goal is to help you thrive in the rewarding and often challenging world of youth sports.
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Enjoy the show.
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Brad WilliamsHOST
week.
Brad WilliamsHOST
It was a cool week, man.
Brad WilliamsHOST
Spent a couple of days in New York at the ESPN headquarters at the Take Back Youth Sports Summit.
Brad WilliamsHOST
And we were joking at lunch, man.
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