Well I just opened my computer and found this page open, and I never hit publish. So sorry for the delay on my thoughts from the first presentation... Our last class a few of my classmates brought up some very interesting points on the psychology, biology and business of youth sports. Jericho mentioned an article that said the cream of the crop in youth sports receives the best coaching and opportunities. I would have to agree with this article. Growing up playing travel baseball, I saw a lot of those extra opportunities, and saw the better players receive even more. The better players played on better teams, went to more competitive tournaments and for the most part, received better coaching. The one exception I noticed while growing up was the players with affluent parents also received a lot of these opportunities, regardless of skill level. They would receive the best coaching, from the former professional players their parents would pay for lessons. They would play for the teams that traveled the most, since their parents could afford to pay for airfare and hotels. I'm not saying that was always the case. I received professional pitching lessons from the time I was 9, until I entered college baseball. My mother was a secretary and my father was an auto mechanic. So I guess a better way of saying it would be: the kids with the parents willing and able to pay for these extra opportunities, are the ones that receive them.