Why Do Families Put Up With It?
Some years ago, I got to know a guy who had two daughters that were approaching high school age. His lifestyle was a little too bourgeois-rat-race for me to think of him as an actual friend, but it was fun to catch up with him now and then at hobby-related events. Everything changed as his daughters grew old enough for him and his wife to chart their college admissions strategies. As far as I can tell, they went to an Ivy admissions consultant who recommended that their best chance was to aim for a Title IX recruited athlete basket via women's basketball. So this became the program, except that women's basketball, unlike men's basketball and nearly every other sport, doesdn't have a season, it goes all year, which meant that other than this guy's regular job, he was going to have to spend almost every waking hour taking his daughters to their games, coaching them, monitoring their workouts, and so forth -- and it wasn't going to be just a burst of activity fo...